Japan Memo

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


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Robert Ward hosts Professor Taniguchi Tomohiko, Chairman of Nippon Kaigi and Specially Appointed Professor at the University of Tsukuba. They discuss the outlook of Japan’s foreign and security policy in 2026.

 

Together, they explore:  

 

·      The upcoming Japanese snap election

·      The Takaichi government’s security and defence reforms

·      Japan’s foreign and security relations with the US

·      Japan’s security and economic relations with China

 

Recommended materials from our guests:  

·      Agawa Naoyuki, Friendship Across the Seas: The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force, (Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2019), 308pp.


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Date recorded: 28 January 2026


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