Human Security Centre Human Rights and International Security Research

Japan and Hong Kong share deep-rooted commercial and cultural ties. Hong Kong’s younger generation appear to hold a much more favourable view of Japan than their forebears.

The future of UK-Japan relations appears promising. With bilateral trade increasing again alongside far-reaching advances in security cooperation, this appears to be a trajectory that will not terminate anytime soon.

Amidst a deteriorating global security environment punctuated by ongoing crises such as the fourth Taiwan Straits crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Japan-South Korea bilateral relations have entered a new period of détente and relative calm.

The potential trajectory of Japan's possible nuclear path could be shaped by the aspirations and policies of not only potential adversaries such as North Korea, China and Russia, but also those of its own allies.

While increasing tensions in the Indo-Pacific stemming from fears over the PRC’s increasingly threatening posture towards Taiwan, the global economic disorder generated by Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and approval ratings plummeting for the Kishida administration may preoccupy the Japanese government for the time being, it is highly likely that Japan's Afghanistan policy will be of largely economic, and less geopolitical nature.

While both sides have outlined proposals for a peace treaty in 1998 and again in 2019, any hope for an agreement over the Kuril Islands was dashed following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

What sort of trajectory have contemporary Japan-Haiti relations followed, and which factors have defined their development?

Abe's assassination is an entirely unprecedented event has led the Kishida administration to face an epistemological insecurity which could well shake Japan and its very post-war identity as a democratic state to the very core

One key U.S. ally enjoys unexpectedly calm bilateral relations with Iran: Japan. This is especially the case in terms of bilateral trade relations.

How long Kishida remains in office depends on the potentially uncomfortable choices he will have to make: as the moderate leader of a conservative-dominated party, either his old dovishness will alienate the LDP right or his new hawkishness will alienate the Japanese public.