Japan Memo

The Japan Memo is a monthly podcast series that analyses why Japan matters in today’s regional and global geopolitical landscape. In each episode, Robert Ward of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Japan Chair Programme, will bring in strategists, experts and practitioners from around the world to examine how Japan is using its diplomatic, economic and military tools to achieve its strategic goals, and what lessons it offers to other countries.

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Episodes

Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy in 2026 with Professor Taniguchi Tomohiko

Japan’s Security and Diplomacy in 2025 with Dr Kristi Govella and Dr Eva Pejsova

Japan-US defence-industrial cooperation with Ogi Hirohito, Ito Ayano, and Tom Corben

Japan’s Energy Security with Yamashita Yukari and Stephen Stapczynski

Japan-US-China Economic Relations with Goto Shihoko and Professor Eto Naoko

The 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War: the evolution of Japan’s post-war defence policy

The 60th anniversary of normalisation of Japan-South Korea diplomatic relations with Professor Sakata Yasuyo, Professor Victor Cha and Professor Jung-Hoon Lee

Key takeaways from the 22nd IISS Shangri-La Dialogue with Professor Jimbo Ken

Deepening Japan–UK relations with Professor Hosoya Yuichi, Professor Yee Kuang Heng, and Fenella McGerty

Japan’s role in Indo-Pacific minilateralism