The Upper House approved legislation designed to restrict access to economic security information on May 10 although details about the proposed system remain unclear, generating privacy and other ...

Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has raised some eyebrows by positioning economic security as a pillar of his administration’s growth strategy. Policy expert Suzuki Kazuto probes the relationship between ...

Our society, as an international community, is at a historical turning point, as the modern era of globalization that began with the end of the Cold War comes to a close. Economic security has become ...

Jim SCHOFF (Senior Director of the US-Japan NEXT Alliance Initiative at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA), discusses recent US trends in economic security, in the context of the increasingly important ...

I’m in Tokyo this week to run an economic security seminar. It’s part of the Economic Security Global Forum Weeks, a three-month extravaganza that is taking place under the auspices of Japan’s ...

In recent years, Japan has been the world’s forerunner in the field of economic security, setting up an economic division within the National Security Secretariat, creating a ministerial post and ...

The Diet has passed a bill to enhance Japan’s economic security without sufficiently clarifying the specific implications of the new law. Ensuring transparency and democratic decision making is vital ...

Economic security policy has become a subject of intense focus in recent years, and particularly in the wake of supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In Japan, the challenge of ...

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) compiled 15 hypothetical cases ...

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will organize the Economic Security Global Forum Weeks within 2025 (from around October to December), during which government and private think tanks ...

TOKYO -- The Japanese government plans to set up a new public-private economic security council as early as fiscal 2026, Nikkei has learned, with its purview to include supply chains for such ...