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East Asia Forum Quarterly research magazine

East Asia Forum Quarterly (EAFQ) Japan edition

The quarterly magazine of East Asia Forum. Provides a platform for top-tier analysis, research, and policy commentary on politics, economics, business, law, security, international relations, and society in the Asia Pacific region.
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Japanese Policy in Global Context (2016-2019)

AJRC received funding from the Japan Foundation's Social Science Research and Education on Contemporary Japan Grant to advance understanding of Japan's policy issues and develop Australia’s next-gen Japan specialists.
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Financing higher education in Japan

AJRC and the ANU Research School of Economics are taking part in a collaborative research project on the financing of higher education in Japan.
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Advancing East Asian economic integration 2000-06

In collaboration with the Japanese Ministry of Finance, AJRC conducted a major research project on Advancing Economic Integration in East Asia, focusing on policy dialogue, financial cooperation, and potential common currency arrangements.
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RIETI Partnership

The AJRC’s partnership with the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) is anchored around an annual symposium and has produced research papers, columns, seminars and policy briefs. Our collaboration focuses on promoting Australia–Japan relations in a broader regional context and connects research with business and the policy sphere.

This collaboration has continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with symposiums taking place via webinar and/or being uploaded to streaming platforms such as YouTube. Each link below takes you to summaries, YouTube recordings, papers and programs.

An Asian Agenda for Economic Security and Prosperity (2024)

This symposium addressed the challenges and strategies for enhancing supply chain resilience and shaping the future of the world economic order, featuring insights from leading experts in Japan and Australia.

Multilateral Governance for the Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence (2024)

This paper examines the rapid growth of the digital economy as a global driver, addressing challenges like digital divides and privacy concerns while highlighting the need for new governance and Japan's role in fostering inclusivity.

An Asian Agenda for Securing the Multilateral Rules-based Economic Order (2023)

This symposium examined how Australia and Japan have played leading roles in navigating international economic policy uncertainty in East Asia while exploring how ASEAN centrality be strengthened to keep Asia free and open.

Towards Comprehensive Regional Security in Asia (2023)

This symposium highlighted escalating security threats in Asia, the need to balance economic recovery with regional stability and security, and ASEAN's role in facilitating cooperation.

Australia, Japan, ASEAN and Economic Security in Asia (2022)

This symposium focused on rising geopolitical and economic uncertainty, how it complicates relations in East Asia, and strategies Japan and Australia can use to keep markets open and strengthen ASEAN centrality.

CPTPP and Beyond: Multilateralism in an Era of Great Power Strategic Competition (2022)

This symposium focused on the strategic competition between the US and China, and how the capacity of regional agreements to facilitate and promote multilateralism.

Towards an Asia-Pacific Digital Economy Governance Regime (2021)

This symposium discussed the digitalisation of the global economy and the lack of multilateral regulations in place to govern the digital economy.

Asian Integration and the Global Economy: Economics of geopolitics (2019)

This symposium tackled issues such as how to engage with the PRC and with the US, how to increase the resilience of institutions both in Asia and globally, and how to strengthen the rules-based international order.

Asia’s Response to the Trade War (2018)

This symposium explored potential policy responses that promote liberal trade and investment policies and aid the preservation of the rules-based economic order.

Japan and Australia: Leading Asia Pacific regionalism in uncertain times (2018)

This symposium highlighted the threats facing the global trade regime from protectionist forces, and discussed potential trade and investment and strategies that could be implemented to combat this threat.

Australia, Japan and the regional economic order: collaboration with the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (2018)

Towards an Asia-Pacific Digital Economy Governance Regime (2021)

Armstrong, Shiro, Rebecca Sta Maria and Tetsuya Watanabe. RIETI-ANU report, Tokyo.

Government as Investor to Individuals: Lessons from Australian “Income-Contingent Loans (2021)

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Australia and Japan in the Region (AJIR) Forum

Australia and Japan in the Region (AJIR) is a monthly publication produced by the AJRC focusing on Japan’s role in the region, on Australia-Japan interactions and on regional issues of significance to both countries.

AJIR encourages input from Japanese scholars, as well as presenting ongoing and new research from the Crawford School and from AJRC’s associated researchers and partners.

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Staff publications

Professor Shiro Armstrong

Full list of publications

Journal articles
  • Laurenceson, James & Shiro Armstrong (2023) ‘Learning the right policy lessons from Beijing’s campaign of trade disruption against Australia’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2212612
  • Armstrong, Shiro Patrick and Drysdale, Peter, The Economic Cooperation Potential of East Asia’s RCEP Agreement (March 30, 2022). East Asian Economic Review Vol. 26 No. 1 (March 2022) 3-25, https://dx.doi.org/10.11644/KIEP.EAER.2022.26.1.403, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4080537
  • Drysdale P. and S. Armstrong (2021) ‘RCEP: a strategic opportunity for multilateralism’, China Economic Journal, DOI: 10.1080/17538963.2021.1937092
  • Armstrong S. (2021) ‘Economic diplomacy and economic security under Abe’ Asian Economic Policy Review, 16 (2), 283-299.

Books & book chapters
  • Armstrong, S., & Nottage, L. (2022). Mixing Methodologies in Empirically Investigating Investment Arbitration and Inbound Foreign Investment. In D. Behn, O. Fauchald, & M. Langford (Eds.), The Legitimacy of Investment Arbitration: Empirical Perspectives (Studies on International Courts and Tribunals, pp. 315-364). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108946636.01
  • Pangestu, M., & Armstrong, S. (2021). East Asian architecture of integration. In Handbook on East Asian Economic Integration. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Reports
  • Armstrong, S. (2022). Australia’s Interests in East Asia’s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
  • Armstrong, S., & Drysdale, P. (2022). The Implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for Asian Regional Architecture. Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP): Implications, Challenges, and Future Growth of East Asia and ASEAN. Jakarta: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), 9-1.
  • Armstrong, S., de Brouwer, G., Drysdale, P., & Westland, T. Economic Tools for Statecraft and National Security.
  • Armstrong, S. (2021). Reimagining the Japan relationship: an agenda for Australia’s benchmark partnership in Asia.
  • Armstrong, Shiro, Rebecca Sta Maria and Tetsuya Watanabe (2021) ‘Towards an Asia-Pacific Digital Economy Governance Regime’ RIETI-ANU report, Tokyo. https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/special/policy-update/092.html
  • Armstrong, Shiro, Urata, Shujiro, March 2021, Japan first? Economic security in a world of uncertainty paper no. 01 / 2021.
  • Armstrong, Shiro and Samuel Hardwick (2022) ‘The Effects of Institutions on the relationship between Politics and Trade’ RIETI-ANU report, Tokyo. The Effects of Institutions on the Relationship Between Politics and Trade (rieti.go.jp)
    * Armstrong, Shiro and Tetsuya Watanabe (2022) ‘Development of International Rules for Digital Economy: Japan and Australia Should Take the Initiative and Encourage Involvement of the U.S. and China’ RIETI-ANU report, Tokyo. https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/rieti_report/254.html
    * Armstrong, S. (2021) ‘International rules and strategic policy space’ ABER Working Paper, Canberra, Asian Bureau of Economic Research. https://eaber.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Chapter-3-Armstrong-Shiro-I...

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Professor Ippei Fujiwara

Full list of publications

Journal articles
  • Davis, J. S., Fujiwara, I., Huang, K. X., & Wang, J. (2021). Foreign exchange reserves as a tool for capital account management. Journal of Monetary Economics, 117, 473-488.
  • Ippei Fujiwara & Yuichiro Waki, 2021. “Online Appendix to “The Delphic forward guidance puzzle in New Keynesian models (https://ideas.repec.org/p/red/append/19-50.html)”,” Online Appendices 19-50, Review of Economic Dynamics.

Reports
  • Fujiwara, Ippei, and Kiminori Matsuyama. “Competition and the Phillips Curve.” Keio and Northwestern (2022).
  • Fujita, Shigeru & Fujiwara, Ippei, 2021. “Aging and the Real Interest Rate in Japan: A Labor Market Channel (https://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/16127.html),” CEPR Discussion Papers 16127, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  • Fujiwara, Ippei & Waki, Yuichiro, 2021. “The Delphic forward guidance puzzle in New Keynesian models (https://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/16020.html),” CEPR Discussion Papers 16020, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  • Chen, Yu-Chin & Fujiwara, Ippei & Hirose, Yasuo, 2021. “Exchange Rate Disconnect and the General Equilibrium Puzzle (https://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/16555.html) ,” CEPR Discussion Papers 16555, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  • ARAI Kosuke & FUJIWARA Ippei & SHIROTA Toyoichiro, 2021. “Robot Penetration and Task Changes (https://ideas.repec.org/p/eti/dpaper/21093.html),” Discussion papers 21093, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).

  • Fujiwara, I., Kimoto, R., Shiratsuka, S., & Shirota, T. (2021). Measuring Robot Quality: Has Quality Improvement Slowed Down?. C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers, 16556. <https://ssrn.com/abstract=3928869>

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Dr Andrew Levidis

Full list of publications

Journal articles
  • “Continue the War! Kishi Nobusuke and the National Defense Brotherhood, 1944-1945,” Journal of Japanese Studies Vol. 49 no. 1 2023 (forthcoming)
  • Andrew Levidis, Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism, Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 25, Issue 2, Summer 2022, Pages 365–368, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab047
  • “Tatiana Linkhoeva, Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism,” in Social Sciences Journal Japan (2020) https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab047

Books and book chapters
  • Barak Kushner and Andrew Levidis eds. In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire: Imperial Violence, State Destruction and the Reordering of Modern East Asia. University of Hong Kong Press March, 2020.
  • “Politics in a Fallen Empire: Kishi Nobusuke and the Making of the Conservative Hegemony in Japan” in Barak Kushner and Andrew Levidis ed. In the Ruins of Empire: Japanese Imperial Violence, State Destruction and the Reordering of Modern East Asia. University of Hong Kong Press 2020.

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Translations
  • Shimizu Yuichirō, “Kokka Seitō, Kokumin: Rikken Seiji no 130nen”ASTEION No. 90 (2019)