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.
May 2013 | Roundtable | Japan’s Abe Administration: Economic and Foreign Policy Challenges |
June 2013 | Conference | UK–Japan Global Seminar: Fostering Strategic Partnerships |
July 2013 | Roundtable | Japan’s Changing Defence Policy |
February 2014 | Roundtable | Year Two of the Abe Administration: Prospects for the Future of Japanese Foreign Policy and UK–Japan Relations |
March 2014 | Conference Report | UK–Japan Global Seminar: Fostering Strategic Partnerships |
June 2014 | Roundtable | Japan’s ‘Proactive Contribution to Peace’: Implications for Regional Security |
June 2014 | Roundtable | Japan’s Maritime Disputes: Contested History and Geopolitical Realities |
October 2014 | Conference | The Role of the Nation State in Addressing Global Challenges: Japan–UK Perspectives |
November 2014 | Roundtable | Media and Politics in Japan: Fukushima and Beyond |
March 2015 | Conference Report | The Role of the Nation-State in Addressing Global Challenges: Japan–UK Perspectives |
March 2015 | Roundtable | Demography, Gender and the Problems of Japan’s Economy |
July 2015 | Roundtable | The Role of Europe in East Asian Strategic and Territorial Issues |
September 2015 | Research paper | Japan’s Abe Administration: Steering a Course between Pragmatism and Extremism |
September 2015 | Conference | The Future of Capitalist Democracy: UK–Japan Perspectives |
November 2015 | Roundtable | Japan and the Rise of China |
February 2016 | Conference Paper | The Future of Capitalist Democracy: UK–Japan Perspectives |
February 2016 | Roundtable | The UK, Japan and the Changing International Order |
May 2016 | Roundtable | Banking on Asia: The United States, Japan and Asia’s Multilateral Development Banks |
October 2016 | Research paper | Brexit and its Consequences: Anglo-Japanese Relations in a Post-EU Referendum World |
October 2016 | Conference | Challenge and Uncertainty in a Volatile World: Japan–UK Perspectives |
October 2016 | Roundtable | Addressing Crises and Promoting Peace Around the World: The Evolution of Japan’s Approach |
January 2017 | Roundtable | Japan’s Grand Strategy and the US–Japan Alliance |
February 2017 | Conference Paper | Challenge and Uncertainty in a Volatile World: Japan–UK Responses |
June 2017 | Roundtable | Coping with Gray Zone Situations: Japan’s Strategy and Challenges |
September 2017 | Conference | Anglo-Japanese Cooperation in an Era of Growing Nationalism and Weakening Globalisation |
October 2017 | Roundtable | Implications of a Power Vacuum in East Asia |
December 2017 | Roundtable | Korea and a Japan Divided |
February 2018 | Conference Paper | Anglo-Japanese Cooperation in an Era of Growing Nationalism and Weakening Globalization |
View all multimedia outputs from the UK–Japan Global Seminar series, including its ‘Japan and the World’ podcast.
The UK–Japan Global Seminar series explored how the two countries can work together more effectively to address a number of critical challenges that the world is facing in the economic, security and social spheres.
Both countries are in a position to capitalize more fully on their respective comparative advantages in order to confront these common challenges. Closer cooperation will offer increased scope and opportunity to identify common strategic priorities and to devise appropriate solutions.
To this end, the annual conferences of the UK–Japan Global Seminar series, held alternately in London and Tokyo, discussed these shared concerns and identified practical ways to deepen UK–Japan cooperation. The project produced a range of publications and hosted discussion groups to provide opportunities for policy experts, analysts and decision-makers from the UK and Japan to assess their respective approaches to a range of challenges.
The UK–Japan Global Seminar series, coordinated and led by Chatham House, was funded by The Nippon Foundation and held in partnership with The Nippon Foundation and The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
