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2021.07.01

UMADA Takaaki joins API as Senior Visiting Fellow
2021.06.22

API Symposium on Geoeconomics – Video and Speech Script are now available
2021.06.07

[Recruitment] Research Assistant (Native English Speaker) to Chairman Funabashi
2021.05.20

TOGASHI Mariko selected as 2nd API Matsumoto-Samata Fellow to be dispatched to UK’s IISS
2021.05.10

API Symposium on Geoeconomics
2021.04.08

Chairman Funabashi featured in the Global Technology Governance Summit (GTGS)
2021.04.01

API Senior Research Fellow OYA Shin featured in Atlantic Council webinar on “Enhancing US-Japan Cooperation on Global Supply Chains”
2021.03.03

API co-hosted online event “The Fukushima Disaster 10 Years On: Lessons to Never Forget” joined by Dr. Funabashi, Professor Suzuki and Mr. Shiozaki
2021.03.02

Chairman Funabashi publishes Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
2021.02.10

What has Japan’s Governance Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the COVID-19 pandemic?
2021.02.10

The 10-Year Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident publishes final report on lessons learned since the disaster
2021.01.25

UMADA Takaaki published Implementing the Future
2021.01.08

English version of “The Independent Investigation Commission on the Japanese Government’s Response to COVID-19: Report on Best Practices and Lessons Learned” now available on API’s website
2021.01.04

Prof. SUZUKI Kazuto joins API as Senior Consulting Fellow
2021.01.04

Prof. JIMBO Ken joins API as MSF Executive Director
2020.12.24

API Privacy Policy Update
2020.12.09

API Senior Consulting Fellow OYA Shin featured in IFRI video conference on “Rethinking Economic Security in the (Post) COVID-19 World”
2020.12.01

MURAI Jun, Dean of API Institute of Geoeconomic Studies, Awarded C&C Prize
2020.11.20

API Fellow SAGARA Yoshiyuki presented at The 21st Century Public Policy Institute, Keidanren (Japan Business Federation)
2020.11.12

Chairman Funabashi featured in Johns Hopkins & T-20 virtual conference on “East Asia and the Post-COVID World”
2020.11.11

Research Director Hosoya presented at online event hosted by Japanese-German Center Berlin
2020.10.22

API Senior Consulting Fellow OYA featured in Technology Alliance Project webinar
2020.10.15

API and Brookings Institution co-hosted webinar “Liberal order undone? Japan’s leadership role after Prime Minister Abe”
2020.10.13

Dean MURAI Jun appointed Special Advisor to the Cabinet
2020.09.24

API Senior Consulting Fellow OYA discussed how to strengthen the global supply chains in the post-corona period
2020.09.01

Prof. HOSOYA Yuichi appointed Managing Director and Research Director
2020.05.01

API announces partnership with CNAS and MERICS on Technology Alliance Project
2020.04.01

API establishes “API Institute of Geoeconomic Studies”; Prof MURAI Jun joins API as Dean of the API Institute of Geoeconomic Studies and API Senior Fellow
2020.04.01

Prof. HOSOYA Yuichi joins API as Senior Consulting Fellow
2020.02.20

Chairman Funabashi publishes What Is Geoeconomics?
2020.02.05

“The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism: Japan and the World Order” was published by Brookings Institution Press
2020.01.09

Yuka Koshino selected as API’s Matsumoto-Samata Fellow and dispatched to UK’s IISS
2020.01.06

Satoshi Nakagawa joins API as Executive Director
2020.01.06

Dr Makio Miyagawa joins API as APIF President and API Senior Fellow
2019.11.26

AP Initiative Chairman delivers 2019 Alastair Buchan Lecture at IISS Annual Dinner
2019.09.06

AP Initiative Chairman contributes op-ed for FT on Japan-South Korea relations
2019.08.08

The front-line of Operation Tomodachi will be published soon
2019.07.16

Reinventing Japan Event – Sustainable Tourism in Japan: Beyond Numbers
2019.05.31

API round-table welcomed former PBOC Governor Dr. Zhou Xiaochuan as keynote speaker
2019.03.15

“What is a Think Tank? : An Era of Policy Entrepreneurship” was published by Chuokoron-shinsha
2019.02.22

Japanese Report on U.S.-Japan Economic Cooperation
2019.02.12

Senior Consulting Fellow Oya participated in a Brookings Institution event on Asia’s connectivity
2019.01.22

AP Initiative Chairman’s op-ed on think tanks published in Project Syndicate
2019.01.21

Interview with Chairman Funabashi published in Korean newspaper
2019.01.09

Announcing a New Partnership with Tokyo Review
2019.01.08

Interview with Chairman Yoichi Funabashi published in the Chosun Ilbo
2018.12.06

Senior Consulting Fellow Oya participated in a CSIS event on Strengthening U.S.-Japan Economic Cooperation
2018.11.30

Asia Pacific Initiative Launch a New Report on U.S.-Japan Economic Cooperation
2018.10.29

AP Initiative Chairman wrote an op-ed about China for The Washington Post
2018.10.24

AP Initiative Chairman participated in the Kan’ichi Asakawa Memorial Symposium
2018.10.24

AP Initiative Chairman participated in the G1 Global Conference and the 2018 GZERO Summit
2018.07.02

Japan to Take Lead in Fourth Industrial Revolution, Opens Emerging Technology Policy Centre in Tokyo
2018.06.28

JASTJ interviewed Chairman Yoichi Funabashi about the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
2018.06.11

AP Initiative Chairman’s op-ed published in The New York Times
2018.05.22

AP Initiative’s book, Japan’s Population Implosion: The 50 Million Shock, was highly appraised in a book review by Tokyo Review
2018.05.16

Chairman Funabashi’s Speech on “Geopolitics, Populism, and the Media”
2018.05.14

Senior Research Fellow Kato joined a tabletop exercise (TTX) to credible North Korean provocations
2018.05.10

AP Initiative Chairman Funabashi’s “The North Korea Problem” appeared in the June edition of Ushio.
2018.04.16

Senior Research Fellow Kato appeared as a panelist at a symposium with Sheila A. Smith
2018.04.09

The Chinese version of AP Initiative Chairman Funabashi’s book, “Managing the Dollar,” was published in China
2018.03.30

“Reinventing Japan: New Directions in Global Leadership,” the English version of “Galapagos Cool,” was published by Praeger
2018.03.18

AP Initiative Senior Research Fellow Kato appeared as a panelist at a conference of NCAFP in NY
2018.02.23

AP Initiative Chairman’s op-ed published in The Washington Post
2018.02.09

AP Initiative Chairman appeared as a moderator at a commemorative symposium for publishing Dr. Graham T. Allison’s book
2018.01.29

AP Initiative Chairman spoke at a session of the World Economic Forum 2018
2018.01.24

AP Initiative Research Associate Harry Dempsey’s op-ed published in East Asia Forum
2018.01.23

【Press Release】Establishment of “World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan: C4IR (Japan)”
2018.01.12

(Japanese) 船橋洋一理事長の半藤一利氏との対談が第79回文藝春秋読者賞を受賞
2018.01.09

English translation of “Japan’s Population Implosion -The 50 Million Shock” has been published by Palgrave Macmillan
2017.12.19

AP Initiative Senior Fellow Masayuki Hironaka’s interview on Kyodo News website
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