Diet Policy Dialogue Program | 2024 Diet Delegation to Indonesia
JCIE organized a bipartisan Diet delegation to Indonesia on July 22–June 25, 2024, as part of its Democracy for the Future program.
Diet Women’s Study Group
In 2019, as part of its program on Empowering Women Leaders, JCIE launched a nonpartisan Diet study group to deepen women legislators’ understanding of critical policy challenges. In the initial year, 13 Diet members, chaired by Representative Seiko Noda, are meeting seven times through March 2020, once every month or two, for discussions with leading experts from Japan and abroad.
Reflections on the 2023 G7’s Global Health Commitments
This webinar is a kick-off for the Hiroshima G7 Global Health Follow-up Initiative, and aims to reflect on the 2023 G7 communique and past G7 commitments.
JCIE Publication | Strengthening the Clinical Trial Site Network in Asia to Accelerate Harmonization of Development Systems and Regulations
This report, available in both English and Japanese, outlines the Task Force for Promoting Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Regulatory Harmonization in Asia’s strategy recommendations for developing and expanding the network of Asian hubs as a way to accelerate harmonization of development systems.
Executive Committee on Global Health and Human Security
The Executive Committee on Global Health and Human Security is a unique public-private platform that facilitates the Japanese government’s policymaking on global health and public-private collaboration in that field.
Global ThinkNet Fellows | Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Options
This project was launched in June 1996 as the first of the study groups organized to promote policy-related contributions from Japanese researchers under the Global ThinkNet Fellows Program. Under the guidance of Professor Masashi Nishihara, six young and promising political scientists examined Japan’s foreign and security policy options for the 21st century.
Global ThinkNet Fellows | New Approaches to Preventive Diplomacy
Five Global ThinkNet Fellows undertook a study project on preventive diplomacy under the direction of Dr. Hideo Sato, senior advisor to the rector of United Nations University. In October 1999, these researchers began examining such topics as UN peacekeeping activities; the peace-building process in Croatia; the international commitment to solve refugee problems; reconceptualizing the concept of state-nation relationship in Asia; and a new approach to the democratization process in Belarus.
Global ThinkNet Fellows | Prospects of ASEAN 10 and Its Implications for Regional International Relations
Established thirty years ago, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has developed from a tentative anti-communist coalition into a major international actor in the economic arena. Under the guidance of Prof. Sueo Sekiguchi of Seikei University, a study group of seven young economists and political scientists was formed to examine various aspects of the expansion of ASEAN and analyze what effect it will have on the region’s economies; the participants met regularly to discuss the political, economic, and social issues related to ASEAN and the long-term prospects of the member economies.
Global ThinkNet Fellows | The Japan-US Alliance: New Challenges in the 21st Century
A group of six young scholars examined the elements that might affect the Japan-US alliance in coming decades, including domestic public opinion and politics, tensions between other countries, and cultural outlook. Their final papers were published by JCIE as an edited volume, Japan-US Alliance: New Challenges for the 21st Century.
Global ThinkNet Fellows | Transformation of Japanese Communities and the Emerging Local Agenda
Under the direction of Shun’ichi Furukawa, a team of young scholars and think tank researchers was formed to study the new demands facing local government in the face of rapid changes that have accompanied globalization and decentralization.