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Key takeaways from the 23rd IISS Shangri-La Dialogue with Professor Jimbo Ken

Special Episode | Japanese Minister of Defense Koizumi Shinjiro: reflections on the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2026

Japan’s defence-export reform with Miyagawa Makio and Michishita Narushige

Japan-US Economic Security with Katada Saori and Yamada Satoshi

Japan’s Critical Mineral Strategy with Kristin Vekasi and Hatakeyama Kyoko

Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy in 2026 with Professor Taniguchi Tomohiko

Japan’s Security and Diplomacy in 2025 with Dr Kristi Govella and Dr Eva Pejsova

Japan-US defence-industrial cooperation with Ogi Hirohito, Ito Ayano, and Tom Corben

Japan’s Energy Security with Yamashita Yukari and Stephen Stapczynski

Japan-US-China Economic Relations with Goto Shihoko and Professor Eto Naoko

The 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War: the evolution of Japan’s post-war defence policy

The 60th anniversary of normalisation of Japan-South Korea diplomatic relations with Professor Sakata Yasuyo, Professor Victor Cha and Professor Jung-Hoon Lee

Key takeaways from the 22nd IISS Shangri-La Dialogue with Professor Jimbo Ken

Deepening Japan–UK relations with Professor Hosoya Yuichi, Professor Yee Kuang Heng, and Fenella McGerty

Japan’s role in Indo-Pacific minilateralism

Japan’s challenges amid growing cooperation between Russia and China with Professor Takahara Akio, Dr Elizabeth Wishnick and Dr Catherine Jones

Japan’s economic-security policy with Professor Suzuki Kazuto and Dr Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp

Japan and the US under a second Trump presidency with Dr Sheila Smith and Dr Jeffrey Hornung

Japan and deterrence with Bill Emmott, Murano Masashi, and Dr Baldauff Nanae

The security and foreign policy of the Ishiba administration with Professor Axel Berkofsky, Professor Hatakeyama Kyoko and Professor Takenaka Harukata

Japan and the Nordic-Baltic states with Dr Matsuda Takuya, Dr Vida Macikenaite and Dr Wrenn Yennie Lindgren

Japan and the Pacific Islands countries with Professor Koga Kei, Shiozawa Hideyuki and Euan Graham

Japan’s intelligence capabilities with Professor Richard J Samuels, Professor Kotani Ken and Hosaka Sanshiro

Japan and the EU with Professor Iwama Yoko, Professor Guibourg Delamotte and Dr Alexandra Sakaki

Japan and North Korea with Professor Chris Hughes, Dr Naoko Aoki and Joseph Dempsey

Japan’s maritime security policy in the Indo-Pacific with Professor Alessio Patalano, Veerle Nouwens and Nick Childs

Japan and the Russia-Ukraine War with Professor Higashino Atsuko, Professor James D.J. Brown and Dr Nigel Gould-Davies

Japan’s relationship with ASEAN with Professor Sato Yoichiro, Aaron Connelly and Evan Laksmana

Abe’s Speeches and Grand Strategy with Professor Taniguchi Tomohiko

Japan’s relationship with the Middle East with Professor Tanaka Koichiro and Hasan Alhasan

Japan’s policy towards Grey-Zone activities in the Indo-Pacific with Professor Kotani Tetsuo and Lynn Kuok

Japan and the Global South with Ambassador Chinoy and Ambassador Ishii

Japan and NATO in 2023 with Ben Schreer and Tsuruoka Michito

Japan-ROK relations with Sakata Yasuyo, Mireya Solís and Chung Min Lee

Japan Chair Programme takeaways from the 2023 IISS Shangri-La Dialogue

Japan, the G7 and multilateralism with Fukushima Akiko

Japan's approaches to nuclear non-proliferation and deterrence with Akiyama Nobumasa and William Alberque

Japan's New Capitalism and the defence budget increase with Bill Emmott and Fenella McGerty

Japan's airpower in 2035 with Oue Sadamasa and Douglas Barrie

Japan’s new national-security documents with Professor Kanehara Nobukatsu

Japan’s defence and security roles in a Taiwan contingency with Satoru Mori and Zack Cooper

Japan, economic security and a Taiwan contingency with Meia Nouwens, Martijn Rasser and Mariko Togashi

Japan’s cybersecurity with Matsubara Mihoko

50 years of normalised Japan-China diplomatic relations with Professor Takahara Akio

Japan and NATO’s converging strategic interests with Dr Tsuruoka Michito

Japan's sanctions in response to the war in Ukraine with Dr Maria Shagina

Japan and Asia’s security in 2022 with Kotani Tetsuo and Ueki Chikako

Japan’s energy security with Terazawa Tatsuya

Franco-Japanese relations with Dr Valérie Niquet

Japan’s outer space ambitions with Dr Suzuki Kazuto and Dr Bleddyn Bowen

The US – Japan Alliance in 2022 with Dr Michael Green

Implications of Japan’s general election with Dr Sheila Smith and Peter Landers

Deepening Japan – UK relations with Ambassador Longbottom

Geo-economics and the Japanese private sector with Murakami Yumiko

The Japan–India strategic relationship with Dr Sanjaya Baru

Japan’s defence and security challenges in 2021 with Professor Jimbo Ken

Socio-economic changes in Japan with Bill Emmott

Introducing: Japan Memo