As Japan and the UK face serious challenges at home and in their respective regions, this report makes the case that a stronger relationship could advance each country’s ability to address shared global concerns.
A Japanese translation of the report is also available as a PDF via this link.
Professor Ken Endo is professor of international politics at Hokkaido University. After obtaining an MA in European Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, he worked as advisory expert at the Cellule de Prospective (Forward Studies Unit) of the European Commission. He then obtained a DPhil in politics from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. His publications include The Presidency of the European Commission under Jacques Delors: The Politics of Shared Leadership (Macmillan, 1999) and The End of Integration – The realities and implications of the European Union (Iwanami, 2013, in Japanese). He also served as a co-commissioning editor of Iwanami’s eight-volume work Japan’s Security [日本の安全保障] (Iwanami, 2014–15). He is a frequent member of study groups at the policy planning unit of Japan’s ministry of foreign affairs, and also sits on its policy evaluation committee.
Professor Yukiko Fukagawa is a professor at the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. She has had a long career studying economic development in East Asian countries both as a practitioner as well as an academician. After graduating from Waseda University, she worked for the Japan External Trade Organization and the Long-Term Credit Bank Research Institute, before joining the faculty of Aoyama Gakuin University and the University of Tokyo. She has been involved in many consultations for the government of Japan, including the Asian Gateway Strategy under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. She holds an MA from Yale, and completed a PhD at Waseda University. She also studied at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, Columbia University, and as a visiting fellow at Korea University.
Professor Yuichi Hosoya is professor of international politics at Keio University. He was a member of the advisory board of Japan’s National Security Council in 2014–16, and served on the Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on National Security and Defense Capabilities in 2013. He studied for a master’s degree in international politics at the University of Birmingham, and holds a PhD from Keio University. He was a visiting professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, and a visiting fellow at Princeton University. His recent publications include Security Politics in Japan: Legislation for a New Security Environment (Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2019); and ‘Japan’s Security Policy in East Asia’, in Sohn, Y. and Pempel, T. J. (eds.), Japan and Asia’s Contested Order: The Interplay of Security, Economics, and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Hans Kundnani is a senior research fellow at Chatham House. Previously, he was a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. In 2016 he was a Bosch public policy fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Paradox of German Power (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2014), He studied German and philosophy at the University of Oxford, and journalism at Columbia University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones was minister of state for security and counterterrorism in the government of David Cameron in 2010–11, and a member of the National Security Council. She also served as the prime minister’s special representative to business for cybersecurity in 2011–14. She was a member of the UK diplomatic service for more than 30 years, and has also worked in business roles, including as chairman of the UK defence technology company QinetiQ in 2002–05.
Dr Robin Niblett has been director of Chatham House since 2007. Previously, in 2001–06, he was executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). During his last two years at CSIS, he also served as director of the CSIS Europe Program and its Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership. He is a frequent panellist at conferences and events around the world, and has testified on a number of occasions to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as to US Senate and House of Representatives committees on European affairs. He received his BA, MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Dr John Nilsson-Wright is senior research fellow for northeast Asia with the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, senior university lecturer in Japanese politics and international relations at the University of Cambridge, and an official fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. He has a BA and DPhil from the University of Oxford and an MA in international relations from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, DC. He was head of the Chatham House Asia Programme in 2014–16. His publications include Unequal Allies? United States Security and Alliance Policy Towards Japan, 1945-1960 (Stanford University Press, 2005); and (as editor) The Politics and International Relations of Modern Korea, 4 volumes (Routledge, 2016). He comments regularly for the global media on the international relations of East Asia, with particular reference to Japan and the Korean peninsula. He has been a visiting fellow at Tohoku University, Yonsei University and Seoul National University and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Korea, and is a director of the UK–Japan 21st Century Group. He was awarded the Yasuhiro Nakasone prize in 2014.
Yohei Sasakawa is chairman of The Nippon Foundation, a private, non-profit foundation established in 1962 for the purpose of carrying out philanthropic activities, using revenue from motorboat racing. He joined The Nippon Foundation in 1981, after 20 years in the business sector. He works with entities from the political, governmental, academic, and private sectors in addressing issues in such diverse areas as health, education, food security, and maritime safety. His global fight against leprosy and the stigma and social discrimination suffered by those affected is an issue to which he has remained highly committed for more than 40 years.
Professor Harukata Takenaka has been professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo since 2010, having previously held positions there as associate professor and assistant professor. His work specializes in Japanese politics and comparative politics. His publications include Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan: Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime (Stanford University Press, 2014); and The House of Councillors 1947–2010 (Chuokoron Shinsha, 2010, in Japanese), which won the Osaragi Jiro Prize for the best book published in Japan in the field of social sciences. He is also an editor at Nippon.com. After graduating from the University of Tokyo with a degree in law, he joined the ministry of finance and obtained a PhD in political science from Stanford University.
Professor Tomohiko Taniguchi is professor at the Graduate School of System Design and Management at Keio University, and special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet. Having received a degree in law from the University of Tokyo, he spent 20 years in journalism before joining the ministry of foreign affairs in 2005 as deputy press secretary, where he wrote speeches for the then foreign minister Taro Aso. Since 2013 he has been Prime Minister Abe’s principal foreign policy speech-writer. His work in journalism included three years in London, during which time, in 1999, the Foreign Press Association elected him president (the first from Asia).
Professor Akiko Yamanaka is president of the International Tsunami Disaster Prevention Society; senior diplomatic fellow at Cambridge Central Asia Forum, University of Cambridge; and special adviser to the president of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. She previously served in the government of Japan as vice-minister for foreign affairs and special ambassador for peacebuilding, as well as a member of the Diet. Her fields of expertise include international peacebuilding, international negotiation and strategic studies, natural and human induced disaster prevention, and preventive diplomacy, on which she has written and lectured extensively. Her books include Think, or Sink [沈まぬ先の知恵] (Hakurosha, 2003).
