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APARC Experts on the Outlook for U.S.-Asia Policy Under the Biden Administration
Japan's Three Most Consequential Events of 2020
Let's Keep it the 'Free and Open' Indo-Pacific
Japan's Challenges in the Next Year are Greater than its Opportunities
How Japan's Suga Can Build an Alliance to Counter China
Japan's Role Could Redefine Asia-Pacific Relations Under Biden and Suga
APARC Announces 2021-22 Postdoctoral Fellowships for Emerging Scholars in Contemporary Asia, Japan, and Korea Studies
Five Ways in Which Japan's New Prime Minister Suga is Different From Abe
Suga Is Fit to Lead, But Are Voters Ready to Like Him?
Three Hits and Three Misses: What is Prime Minister Abe’s Legacy?
How WWII Continues to Shape Regional and International Relations in Asia
Call for Stanford Student Applications: APARC Hiring 2020-21 Research Assistants
Why the US-Japan Partnership Prospered Despite Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Don't Take Our Allies for Granted, Even Japan
Kiyoteru Tsutsui Joins FSI as a Senior Fellow
APARC Announces Diversity Grant to Support Underrepresented Minority Students Interested in Contemporary Asia
FSI Hosts APARC Panel on COVID-19 Impacts in Asia
APARC Announces New Fellowship and Internship Opportunities for Stanford Students
Amid the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, students are facing summer internship cancelations and hiring freezes. They are left wondering about the long-term implications of the current crisis for their academic careers and their access to future jobs and valuable work experience.
Japan and South Korea on the Brink: International Affairs and Trade Relations Experts Elucidate the Conflict between the Two U.S. Allies
The recent escalation of diplomatic and trade disputes between South Korea and Japan has alarmed numerous observers and is rather confusing to many around the world to whom the two countries seem to have much to lose and little to gain by the deterioration of the bilateral relationship. What underlying forces are driving the conflict? Are these new forces, or the same historical forces coming to a head? How much are factors from the international environment, such as the behavior of the United States, influencing the current escalation?
Stanford Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference Examines New Pathways for Aging Societies
The world is “graying” at an unprecedented rate. According to the UN’s World Population Prospects 2019, the number of persons over the age of 65 is growing the fastest and expected to more than double by 2050, then triple in another 50 years’ time.
Experts Discuss Future of the International Order in East Asia
“For seven decades our thinking about Indo-Asia-Pacific security and international cooperation issues has been underpinned by the narratives of a U.S.-led international order centered around the rule of law, economic openness, and multilateralism. Now this post-WWII order is being challenged.”
Do Innovation Subsidies Make Chinese Firms More Innovative?
Motivated by the realization that China’s economic growth model is about to become obsolete, the Chinese government has been using various subsidies to encourage innovations by Chinese firms. This study examines the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES).
Abenomics, Seven Years In: Has It Succeeded?
In September 2018, Shinzo Abe won a party election, thereby securing his third consecutive term as president of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and getting closer to becoming the longest-serving prime minister in the country’s postwar history. With his current administration now in its seventh year, Abe looks likely to continue implementing the economic policies he started in 2012, dubbed "Abenomics” and based upon “three arrows” of bold monetary policy, flexible fiscal policy, and structural reform to promote private investment.
Tokyo Dialogue Expands Work on Security in the Indo-Pacific Region
An air of uncertainty remains prevalent in the Indo-Pacific region. The South China Sea continues to be in contention, with six governments exerting claims on overlapping areas. The threat of a full-blown trade war between China and the United States puts the stability of the regional (and global) economy in question. Meanwhile, the Korean peninsula appears to swing between the brink of conflict to the possibility of dramatic diplomatic breakthroughs.
Shorenstein APARC Names 2019-20 Postdoctoral Fellows
Shorenstein APARC is pleased to announce the selection of two scholars as postdoctoral fellows for the 2019-20 academic year. They will begin their appointments at Stanford in the coming Autumn quarter.