Japanese Politics & Foreign Relations Archives - Page 8 of 52

ASEAN-Japan Cooperation in East Asia Community Building

2003 marked several important anniversaries for the ASEAN-Japan relationship and was designated as the “ASEAN-Japan Exchange Year.” In order to explore ways to strengthen the ASEAN-Japan partnership as a step toward building an East Asian regional community, JCIE held two workshops in 2003 on the theme of “ASEAN-Japan Cooperation in East Asia Community Building”.

APAP Myanmar Seminars

In 2000, JCIE started a collaborative effort with the ASEAN-ISIS and the Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies to develop a policy dialogue on intra-ASEAN cooperation and developments in Asia Pacific. These aimed to engage with the more internationally oriented elements of the Myanmar government to encourage the country to move more towards the mainstream of regional politics.

China-Japan-US Research and Dialogue Project

Based on the premise that the security and prosperity of Asia Pacific is largely contingent upon cooperation among China, Japan, and the United States, JCIE launched a long-term policy research and dialogue project to explore the challenges that lie ahead. The project combines workshops involving experts with study groups of emerging intellectual leaders from the three countries.

Development of Trilateral Cooperation in Global Governance among East Asia, North America, and Europe

Beginning in 2006, this APAP research program focused on the question of the “Development of Trilateral Cooperation among East Asia, North America, and Europe” and how the creation of a functional trilateral structure might be created to foster the stable development of global governance. As a result of the project, East Asia at a Crossroads was published in 2008.

Governance and Sustainable Systems of Development

This project, part of the Asia Pacific Agenda Project (APAP), was launched in February 1998 and assessed the sources of the Asian crisis by focusing on the concepts of governance and sustainable development, exploring the different levels of governance, criteria for “good governance,” determinants of a sound financial system, and the possible impact of environmental and natural resource limits on growth.

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 | 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.

International Advisory Group on Global Health

In 2019 and 2020, Japan hosts a range of critical international meetings, from the G20 Summit to the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7), and the Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4G). In order to help the Japanese government make strategic use of these events in advancing global health, in April 2018 the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) convened a half-year consultative process in collaboration with five key Japanese government agencies.

Japan’s Response to the Spread of HIV/AIDS

In 2004, JCIE completed a survey report commissioned by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on Japan’s response to the spread of HIV/AIDS. This resulted in one of the first reports in English on how actors in the public and private sectors in Japan have been addressing the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The report was distributed at the international conference, Human Security Challenges of AIDS and Communicable Disease in Asia, held in Tokyo on March 22, 2004.