Key Points: Diverse frameworks are competing to lead the regional order RCEP increasingly important due to US withdrawal from the TPP Concerns that Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is inconsistent with the liberal order The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is an initiative targeting aspects of regional economic integration between the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the six countries that already have free trade agreements (FTA) with the ASEAN (Japan, China, Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand). Formally declared open in 2012, the ongoing negotiations aim to establish the rules for eighteen areas including goods, services, investment, rules of origin, intellectual property, competition, and dispute settlement. One of the points in favor of the RCEP is that the members include China and India as well as all ten ASEAN countries. Only four of the ASEAN countries participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ... [Read more]
“A New Step Forward to “Regions for Japan-Russia Cooperation”— results and challenges from the Japan-Russia summit.” (January 11, 2018)
Iwata Akiko, in-house political reporter and member of NHK's editorial board
“A Long-Lived, Unamended Constitution” (October 27, 2017)
Kenneth Mori McElwain, MAKIHARA Izuru
“Japan and the European migrant crisis: Not “someone else’s problem”” (September 11, 2017)
Watanabe Hirotaka, Director, Institute for International Relations, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
“EV Revolution to Bring Drastic Change to Auto Industry” (December 20, 2017)
Kojima Akira, Member, Board of Trustees, and Adjunct Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS); Trustee, Chairman of the World Trade Center Tokyo
“Remembering Ooka Makoto The Poet from Mount Fuji” (July 31, 2017)
Yamazaki Masakazu, playwright
“Interview: Foreign Minister KONO Taro
Japan’s Diplomatic Landscape in 2018 Pushing North Korea toward Denuclearization by Applying Continued Pressure” (May 29, 2018)
Interviewer: Editorial Desk of the Gaiko (Diplomacy)
“Society and Science on iPS Cells ― Think about the next decade with a focus on the ethical, legal and social issues” (October 26, 2017)
Yashiro Yoshimi, Assistant to the President of the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine, Associate Professor in the Uehiro Research Division for iPS Cell Ethics, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
“An Inside View from the Advisory Council on Easing the Burden of the Official Duties and Public Activities of His Majesty the Emperor ― Looking back at seven months that decided the Emperor’s future” (May 21, 2018)
Mikuriya Takashi, Deputy Chair of the Advisory Council on Easing the Burden of the Official Duties and Public Activities of His Majesty the Emperor, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo
“A Collection of Modern French Paintings on a Return Visit to Europe — Masterpieces from the Bridgestone Museum of Art Ishibashi Foundation —” (November 22, 2017)
Miura Atsushi, Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
“Inbound Tourism and Japanese People ― Issues related to the increase in tourists visiting Japan from abroad” (November 30, 2017)
Miyajima Takashi, Professor Emeritus, Ochanomizu University
“Japanese “Armitage-Nye Report” Launched” (August 2, 2017)
Tanaka Akihiko, President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
“RIKEN: The 100th Anniversary of a Major Research Organization of Japan ― The Day the 113th Element Was Born” (December 26, 2017)
Yamane Kazuma, nonfiction writer
WASHOKU, traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese
“It’s natural for food to change. Food is not something we can keep in old ways. It must and will keep changing. But I think...” (January 30, 2014)
KUMAKURA Isao, President of the Shizuoka University of Art
Key Points: Diverse frameworks are competing to lead the regional order RCEP increasingly important due to US withdrawal from the TPP Concerns that Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is inconsistent with the liberal order The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is an initiative targeting aspects of regional economic integration between the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the six countries that already have free trade agreements (FTA) with the ASEAN (Japan, China, Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand). Formally declared open in 2012, the ongoing negotiations aim to establish the rules for eighteen areas including goods, services, investment, rules of origin, intellectual property, competition, and dispute settlement. One of the points in favor of the RCEP is that the members include China and India as well as all ten ASEAN countries. Only four of the ASEAN countries participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ... [Read more]
