Our guest speaker for the International Policy Forum meeting in May was Masaaki Taira. As Parliamentary Vice-Minister for the Economy, Trade and Industry, he is a key person in the creation of the growth strategy of the Abe cabinet.  Mr Taira, an aut...

Since 2007 efforts to reform Japan’s economy have been stymied by governments' inability to hold a majority in the House of Councillors. Both Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) administrations struggled under this con...

With Tokyo winning the right to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020, expectations are running high for its impact on Tokyo and the Japanese economy as a whole. With public support for hosting the Games reportedly as high as 92%, hopes are h...

This month, the International Policy Forum welcomed Masahiko Shibayama, Chair of the House of Representatives Cabinet Affairs Committee, formerly Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to discuss Japan’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Abe....

The International Policy Forum kicked off 2014 by welcoming Kozo Yamamoto, the LDP's leading expert in fiscal and monetary policy. As one of the fathers of Abenomics, Mr. Yamamoto shared with us his insights on progress to date and what to expect in ...

On 11 March, the International Policy Forum invited Kiyomi Tsujimoto, one of the most popular and vocal Diet members of the past decade and a Member of the House of Representatives Budget Committee and the Committee on Oversight of the Administration...

Our guest speaker for the International Policy Forum in May was Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Seiji Kihara. Mr. Kihara is an expert on financial policy. He discussed Prime Minister Abe’s new growth strategy, due to be announced in J...

GR Japan was pleased to co-host Akie Abe, Japan’s First Lady, for the International Policy Forum in July together with the Institute for New Era Strategy (INES). Mrs Abe, who has been vocal on various social issues, is well known for her active in...

GR Japan’s Managing Director Jakob Edberg presented a special report produced by GR Japan in cooperation with PublicAffairsAsia, examining the political and economic landscape in Japan at this exciting juncture in Prime Minister Abe’s program of econ...

As speaker for our November International Policy Forum, we hosted Mr. Isamu Ueda – former Senior Vice Minister of Finance and Vice Minister of Justice, long-serving official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and a veteran ...