List of Research Findings

A list of research findings from JIIA is available for viewing.

#Japan #Economic Security #Economy & Global Issues #JIIA Center for Global Outreach (CGO) #Japan's Voice

[Japan’s Voice No.2] Takaichi’s Landslide: A Mandate for Strategic Realism and Allied Scale

Stephen R. Nagy (Visiting Fellow, JIIA)

#Kokusai Mondai (International Affairs)

KOKUSAI MONDAI (ISSN:1881-0500)　Summary No. 729, February 2026

#Americas #Europe #Economic Security #Economy & Global Issues #JIIA Strategic Comments

JIIA Strategic Comments (2026-4) Enhancing Greenland’s Future Strategic Value in the Arctic -- Independence, Annexation, or Free Association?

Toshio Sano(Former Ambassador of Japan to the Kingdom of Denmark)

#Japan #Americas #Indo-Pacific #Economy & Global Issues #JIIA Center for Global Outreach (CGO) #Japan's Voice

[Japan’s Voice No.1] The Disintegration of the World Order and Its Reconstruction — Japan’s Mission

Akio Takahara (Senior Adjunct Fellow, JIIA)

#Americas #Security #JIIA Strategic Comments #JIIA Platform #Study Group on the USA

JIIA Strategic Comments (2026-2) Trump 2.0 Returning to the "Exceptionalism": Building a Multi-Layered Breakwater in the Midwest

Jun Yanagi (Executive Director, JIIA Platform, Former Consul General of Japan in Chicago)

#Americas #Security #Research Reports #Study Group on the USA

Trump 2.0's Vision for the Western Hemisphere

Suguru Osawa (Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Aichi Gakuin University)

#Japan #China #Research Reports

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Remarks and Japan–China–Taiwan Relations—The Logic Behind China’s Unyielding Position

Shin Kawashima（Professor, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences）

#The Center for Territory and History #Historical Columns

History and the Present of Exchange with China in Kitakyushu City: Tracing the Footsteps of the Friendship City Relationship with Dalian City

Kan Hayata (Junior assistant fellow, The Japan Institute of International Affairs)

#Security #Indo-Pacific #JIIA Strategic Comments #Center for Disarmament, Science and Technology (CDAST) #CDAST #Disarmament / Non-proliferation #Science and Technology

JIIA Strategic Comments (2025-16)The Perils of “Selective Proliferation” for U.S. Allies and the Global Order

Timothée Albessard（Special Research Fellow, The Japan Institute of International Affairs. Graduated from The École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, France）

#Center for Disarmament, Science and Technology (CDAST) #CDAST

Examining Japan’s Complex Attitudes Toward Nuclear Weapons "Ambivalent Japan: Japanese public attitudes toward nuclear weapons." (The Nonproliferation Review, 32(1–3), 75–106. )

#Kokusai Mondai (International Affairs)

KOKUSAI MONDAI (ISSN:1881-0500)　Summary No. 728, December 2025

#Security #JIIA Strategic Comments #JIIA Platform

JIIA Strategic Comments (2025-14) Strengthening Intelligence as a Component of Japan's National Power

Jun Yanagi (Executive Director, JIIA Platform)

#Policy Brief（Center for Territory and History）

The History of Japan’s Sea Routes and Maritime Trading

Monika Chansoria

#JapanReview_Vol8_No1_2025

Valérie Niquet　Eighty Years after WWII: A Comparative Analysis of Historical Reckoning in Europe and Asia

#JapanReview_Vol8_No1_2025

Robert D. Eldridge　Developing the Islands or Demonstrating Effective Control? The Japanese Government and the Construction of a Heliport in the Senkaku Islands in the Late 1970s

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