Japan’s pivot in Asia

This panel event at Chatham House launches a special issue of the journal International Affairs, which analyses contemporary Japanese foreign policy.

 

Discussion of a regional and global power transition and the supposed erosion of US primacy on the global stage has been discussed by Japanese elites over the last decade. But how has this been realised in Japanese security and foreign policy?

 

Contributors to a special issue of International Affairs will explore recent developments in Japanese foreign policy, focusing particularly on Japan’s approach to relations with their Asian neighbours. Has Japan started to diversify its strategic relationships beyond its traditional allies? How has increased assertiveness in Chinese foreign policy affected Japan’s strategic decisions? And, are many Japanese citizens imagining a future in which their security no longer hinges on the Japan-US alliance?

 

Panel :

Dr Champa Patel, Head of Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House
Dr Corey Wallace, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin
Dr John Hemmings, Director of the Asia Studies Centre at the Henry Jackson Society
Fung Siu, Regional Manager, Asia, at the Economist Intelligence Unit

 

A recording of the event will be made available afterwards.