GR Japan is pleased to invite you to a seminar, “Strategic Government Relations and Advocacy Seminar"  that will be held on 1 November 2016 at Kioi Conference in Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho. With slowing growth in China, lingering uncertainty ove...

The Prime Minister's office published the English translation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy speech to the Extraordinary Diet Session which was made on 26 September.  Please click the link below to see the entire text.

GR Japan contributed an article "A Current Look at Corporate Public Affairs in Japan" to the Public Affairs Council newsletter. Please see the article below which was published on 26 September 2016: "A Current Look at Corporate Public Affairs in J...

The Democratic Party (DP), Japan's main opposition party, chose Renho as its new leader today.  Renho, who previously served as a deputy leader of the party and a third-term member at the House of Councillors, gained almost 60% of the votes and defea...

Please join us in welcoming Takuya Hirai, Chairman of the Special Mission Committee on IT Strategy for the LDP, as guest speaker for our second International Policy Forum (IPF) in September.  The Japan Revitalization Strategy 2016 released in June re...

On 14 September,  GR Japan President & CEO Jakob Edberg shared the analysis on the result of the House of Councillors election and the updates at Nagatacho, including the prediction on the Democratic Party leadership election and the extraordinary Di...

GR Japan launched a special report on Abenomics, "A Stronger Japan? - Next Steps in the Abe Era -", produced in association with PublicAffairsAsia, today.  This is our second publication focused on the ongoing efforts on economic policies under Prime...

GR Japan welcomes Yasutoshi Nishimura, Special Advisor to Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Shinzo Abe and Chief Deputy Secretary-General of LDP, as guest speaker for this month's International Policy Forum (IPF).  As a testament to the Prime ...

Prime Minister Abe's office and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) agreed to open an extraordinary diet session on 26 September, according to the media. Considering the volume of the continuous issues, it was said that PM Abe wished the session to be...

According to NHK, Prime Minister Abe has determined his new cabinet to support his growth strategy, retaining the key ministers.  It was initially rumored that the reshuffle could be significant this time; however, Abe opted for stability over surpri...