The Japan-EU EPA negotiation is finalized on 8 December.  The parties reached to an broad agreement in July and confirmed the conclusion, excluding the investor protection issue. They aim to sign the deal by next summer and put it into effect by spri...

Prime Minister Abe delivered his first policy speech for the Special Diet Session today.  He pledged to accelerate discussions on the government's initiatives such as the security issues including the North Korea crisis, policy on "people development...

ベトナムで開催されていた環太平洋連携協定（TPP）署名11カ国の閣僚会合で、米国を除く新協定「TPP11」発効に向けた大筋合意が発表されました。今年1月に米国が離脱をして以来、交渉が難航していましたが、オリジナルの項目の一部ルールを凍結することで、合意へと動いたようです。詳細は、毎日新聞の記事をごらんください。

For our November IPF breakfast, we will invite Mr. Yasuhiro Suzuki, who has been newly appointed to the role of Chief Medical & Global Health Officer of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW), in which he oversees all administration under t...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was reelected  today by both the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors.  It is reported that Prime Minister will retain all the ministers he appointed at the previous cabinet reshuffle in August.  He will be ...

GR Japan is pleased to invite you to a special seminar, “Government Relations as Business Strategies in the Era of the Geopolitical Change”, which will be held on Monday, 13 November, at Roppongi Academyhills. After the drastic shift in the global...

GR Japan President & CEO Jakob Edberg will speak about Abenomics and the outcome of the General Election at the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFJ) on Tuesday, 31 October.  The LDP-Komeito coalition seems to secure the super majority agai...

Jakob Edberg, GR Japan President & CEO, presented our analysis and predictions on the upcoming lower house election at "IPF: 2017 General Election Special" on 17 October. His presentation is available as attached.  Should you like to know further det...

Yukio Edano, deputy president of the Democratic Party (DP), today formed a new political party, "The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan".  DP previously announced to join the Party of Hope, a new party formed by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, in ...

Please join GR Japan to discuss Japan’s upcoming House of Representatives election.   Prime Minister Abe dissolved the Diet today for a snap election of the House of Representatives, widely expected to take place on 22 October.  Abe’s decision come...