On 14 October, the International Policy Forum invites Naomi Tokashiki, the Deputy Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Director of the House of Representatives Health, Labor and Welfare Committee, and former Parliamentary Minister...

GR Japan and the Institute for New Era Strategy (INES) are pleased to co-host Mr. Hiroshi Nakaso, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), for the September meeting of the International Policy Forum (IPF). Mr. Nakaso will discuss Japan’s monetary ...

GR Japan Managing Director, Jakob Edberg, has shared his analysis on the reshuffled Abe Cabinet and his new three arrows prior to IPF Brakfast Meeting with Naomi Tokashiki, State Minister of Health, Labour and Wealth on 14 October 15. Please check be...

GR Japan is pleased to invite you to a seminar, “Government Relations Strategies for Success in Global Rule-making”, which will be held on Friday, 2 October, at Roppongi Academy Hills. In this seminar, leading international speakers from the field...

According to Nikkei Shimbun on 9 September, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was re-elected unopposed as a president of LDP, is planning a cabinet reshuffle in October. However, the reshuffle is expected to be a minor one since Abe wishes to focus on t...

With the unprecedented triple crisis of a M9.0 earthquake, a devastating tsunami and a Level 7 nuclear accident, Japan’s government has been confronted by one of the greatest challenges faced by any nation in peacetime. As Vice-Director General of th...

  With gross national debt nearing 200% of the GDP and tax revenue (¥40.1 trillion) predicted to cover just 43% of national expenditures (¥93.1 trillion) in FY2011, Japan was in poor fiscal shape even before the disasters of 11 March.  After the e...

Japan’s GDP contracted by 0.9% in the first quarter following the triple disasters of 11 March. The government has launched a number of initiatives to support the affected areas, including that of establishing a “special economic zone” in Tohoku wher...

With the Pheu Thai party’s landslide victory in Thailand’s 3 July general elections, just a year after violent crackdown on protestors by the Royal Thai Army left 92 dead on the streets of Bangkok, the world is asking whether the return of a democrat...

Though the stepping down of Prime Minister Kan was expected for some time, the election of Yoshihiko Noda as new leader of DPJ and, later, Prime Minister was anything but predictable. The leadership contest exposed internal rifts and differences in v...