Korea
ACTIVITIES
JCIE Staff Conduct Site Visit to Aging-Related Organizations in South Korea
March 21–24, 2023 | Busan and Hadong, South Korea
Members of the aging program team from JCIE traveled to South Korea for a series of site visits and meetings in Busan and the rural province of Hadong, where the team learned how the rapid declining b…
30th Korea-Japan Forum
August 18 and 24–26, 2022 | Tokyo
The 30th Korea-Japan Forum, held in Tokyo, brought together participants to discuss domestic political shifts and bilateral relations, economic and security issues facing the two countries, and the la…
29th Korea-Japan Forum
November 29 and December 3, 2021 | Online
The 29th Korea-Japan Forum, held online, brought together participants to discuss domestic political shifts and bilateral relations, economic and technology cooperation, and the latest geopolitical de…
28th Korea-Japan Forum
November 13, 2020 | Online
The 28th Korea-Japan Forum, which was held via videoconference between two venues in Tokyo and Seoul due to COVID-19 travel concerns, brought together more than 40 participants to discuss domestic pol…
Listening to the Views of Migrants—Japanese and Korean Societies Living with Migrants
November 12, 2019 | Tokyo, Kochi, Aichi
A diverse group of experts on immigration and representatives from the immigrant communities of both Japan and Korea gathered for this symposium to share the lessons of the Japan–South Korea Immigrati…
27th Korea-Japan Forum
August 21–23, 2019 | Seoul
The 27th Korea-Japan Forum met in Tokyo, bringing together more than 50 participants from both countries. Discussion topics included the role of both countries in moving toward North Korean denucleari…
Japan–South Korea Immigration Policy Exchange | 2nd Korea Site Visit
July 7–10, 2019 | South Korea
A one-week exchange program for a delegation from Japan consisting of immigrants and others with a special focus on national and local government efforts to support immigrant communities in South Kore…
Japan–South Korea Immigration Policy Exchange | 2nd Japan Site Visit
May 30–June 2, 2019 | Tokyo and Hamamatsu, Japan
A one-week exchange program for a delegation from South Korea consisting of immigrants and others with a special focus on education for immigrants and attendance at the national forum for Solidarity N…
26th Korea-Japan Forum
August 20–22, 2018 | Tokyo
The 26th Korea-Japan Forum met in Tokyo, bringing together more than 50 participants from both countries. The meeting was focused on the 20th anniversary of the 1998 Japan–South Korea joint declaratio…
1st Japan Site Visit of the Immigration Policy Exchange Program
August 23–27, 2018 | Tokyo and Yokohama
A one-week exchange program for a delegation from South Korea consisting of immigrants and others to learn about Japanese immigrant workers and community services for immigrants and immigrant youth.
1st South Korea Site Visit of the Immigration Policy Exchange Program
April 25–29, 2018 | South Korea
A one-week exchange program for a delegation from Japan consisting of immigrants and others to learn about South Korean immigration policy and community services for immigrants.
Trilateral Commission | 2017 Asia Pacific Group Regional Meeting
November 25, 2017 | Tokyo
The Asia Pacific Group of the Trilateral Commission held its annual regional meeting in Tokyo, gathering more than 70 members, guests, fellows, and invited speakers.
25th Korea-Japan Forum
August 28–30, 2017 | Seoul
The 25th meeting of the Korea-Japan Forum brought together more than 50 participants from both countries, including influential politicians, businesspeople, and representatives of private exchange org…
Rediscovering Common Bonds | How Professionals in Various Fields Are Building the Future of China-Japan-Korea Ties
February 21, 2017 | Tokyo
In the final seminar of this series, JCIE invited a Japanese man working in China, a Korean woman working in Japan, and a Chinese woman working in Korea to discuss their unique experiences.
Rediscovering Common Bonds | China-Japan-Korea Special Movie Talk
November 11, 2016 | Seoul, Korea
This unique event brought together the director of a Korean movie together with the directors of Japanese and Chinese versions of the film for the first time to explore how these three versions illust…
PUBLICATIONS
The Biden Administration’s Chance to Get Asia Policy Right—A View from Japan
February 2021
The Biden administration faces complex challenges in maintaining peace, stability and prosperity while restoring multilateral diplomacy with East Asia. Overcoming these obstacles will require special…
Navigating China Relations and the US-Japan Alliance
October 2020
In January 2020, the United States and Japan marked the 60th anniversary of the revised US-Japan Security Treaty. Steps to strengthen this relationship, which should not be taken for granted, include…
Five Steps to Bolster the US-Japan Alliance
March 2020
In January 2020, the United States and Japan marked the 60th anniversary of the revised US-Japan Security Treaty. Steps to strengthen this relationship, which should not be taken for granted, include…
The Crisis of US Credibility in East Asia
October 2019
The decision by the US Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over his pressuring of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden has brought renewed attention t…
Regaining Momentum on North Korea Negotiations: One Year on from the Singapore Summit
Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, JCIE
June 2019
The international community is now at a crossroads with North Korea. The lack of progress at the Hanoi Summit raises the risk that the opportunity created by the Singapore Summit may be squandered. Ho…
Managing the US-China Strategic Rivalry
Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, JCIE
December 2018
The intensification of US-China tensions risks undermining regional stability in Asia Pacific. This cannot be resolved simply by ending the current trade war, and disengagement and decoupling is not a…
Engaging North Korea after the Singapore Summit
Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, JCIE
July 2018
On June 12, US President Donald Trump and North Korean Workers’ Party Chairman Kim Jong-un met for a historic US-DPRK summit. While the vagueness of their final statement left many skeptical of the re…
Confronting Uncertainty in East Asia
Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, JCIE
March 2018
From a Japanese perspective, the defining characteristic of East Asia’s regional order today appears to be the high degree of uncertainty that prevails about what might come next. Geopolitical uncerta…
Five Factors That Could Lead to War with North Korea
Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, JCIE
September 2017
What are the five factors that could lead to war with North Korea? They include the domestic turmoil in both political systems and the fact that differences between American and North Korean political…
Breaking the Impasse with North Korea
Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, JCIE
May 2017
This report makes recommendations on how the international community can rapidly respond to the intensification of North Korea’s nuclear and missile development, in order to prevent massive bloodshed…
How to Manage Geopolitical Instability in East Asia
Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, JCIE
February 2017
This issue discusses the concern surrounding Trump’s anti-globalization sentiment and the surge of populism associated with it, and how these developments may throw the international liberal economic…
93,000 People Voluntarily Left Japan for North Korea After World War II. Or Did They?
Julie Makinen
August 24, 2016
In April 1960, not yet finished with high school, 17-year-old Eiko Kawasaki boarded a Soviet ship called the Kryl’ion in the Japanese port of Niigata and set sail on the journey of a lifetime, to a pl…
Six Challenges for US-Japan Cooperation in Asia
Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, JCIE
February 2016
In this issue of East Asia Insights, Hitoshi Tanaka outlines six challenges that carry the potential to undermine US-Japan cooperation and calls for close, careful US-Japan consultation and cooperatio…
Secrets of "Three Brothers" of South Korea, China, Japan
Yoshibumi Wakamiya
November 12, 2015
By Yoshibumi Wakamiya You probably do not know that there is the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat (TCS) in Korea. Although it is rarely known in Japan or China, it is an international organization j…
Asia on the Move: Regional Migration and the Role of Civil Society
Mely Caballero-Anthony and Toshihiro Menu, eds.
2015
Experts analyze migration trends in China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia; government efforts to manage this movement; and the role of NGOs in helping to protect migrants and to harness migration to…