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 ...

Following the abrupt dissolution of the Diet by PM Abe just two months after the formation of his new Cabinet, Japan is heading to the polls for the third time in three years. This time around, the voters are preparing to give their verdict on Abenom...

Dr. Llewelyn Hughes, Research Director at GR Japan and Senior Lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, writes on Japan's energy conundrum and Abe's policies in the East Asia Forum. 

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GR Japan's Managing Director, Jakob Edberg, gave an interview for one of the major Swedish newspapers, Svenska Dagbladet.  The interview was published in the 6 January edition and could be viewed on the following link.

In a first such initiative in Japan, two of Japan’s major electric power companies, TEPCO and Chubu Electric, are holding a joint tender for the supply of LNG, inviting about 60 major LNG suppliers to bid. Bids are due by 19 December and a supplier w...

The Prime Minister’s Office has published an interesting and thorough presentation in English (available here) on the progress and achievements of Abenomics to date. 

Immediately after the elections, PM Abe met business and union representatives to discuss wages. The lack of wage growth, combined with the impact of yen depreciation, is seen as one of the major obstacles to lifting private consumption, an essential...

As the media name for the dissolution that preceded it would suggest, the last election was about one thing and one thing only – Abenomics. Economic policies were the centerpiece of both the ruling coalition and the opposition’s campaigns and also th...

After a resounding victory in the House of Representatives election on 14 December, the winning coalition moves swiftly to resume work. Despite heightened Japanese and international media interest in whether Abe will use his newly strengthened pol...