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In October 2016, Watanabe joined the Sasakawa Peace Foundation after serving as a senior fellow and a director of foreign and security policy research at the Tokyo Foundation from 2009 to 2016. He served as a senior fellow at the Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute in Tokyo from 2005 to 2009.
Tsuneo Watanabe (渡邉 恒雄, Watanabe Tsuneo, born May 30, 1926) is a Japanese journalist and newspaper executive. He is the Representative Director and Managing Editor of Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, which publishes the largest Japanese daily newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun and substantially controls the largest Japanese commercial ...
Watanabe Tsuneo is senior research fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, an independent policy research organization in Tokyo. Watanabe joined the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in October 2016.
- Updates to Defense Documents
- A Change in Public Consciousness of National Defense Issues
- Rationale For Strengthening Defense Capability with Counterstrike Capability
- An Important Step Toward Deepening The Japan-U.S. Alliance
What, then, is new about the three defense documents? In a word, it is that the strategy was formulated based on the assumption that Japan's territory could be subjected to a real military attack. The emphasis in the objectives of both the NSS and the NDS is the strengthening of Japan's own defense capabilities. The NDS states, "Amid the most sever...
Japan's new defense strategy is quite ambitious. The Kishida administration aims to increase the defense budget to 2 percent of GDP within five years (from current level of roughly 1 percent of GDP), but at this point, even within the ruling party, there is no consensus on how to resource the budget, which is already one of the biggest issues drivi...
NSS considers Japan’s “domestic challenges such as a declining and aging population with a low fertility rate and a severe fiscal condition.” In order to survive, NSS concludesthat “Japan must ensure as international environment that is conducive to facilitating cross-border economic and social activities such as trade of goods, energy, and food wh...
In the three strategic documents, the strengthening of the Japan-U.S. alliance continues to be recognized as an essential element for achieving territorial defense and regional peace and stability. It is important to note that the drastic strengthening of Japan's defense capabilities is not framed in terms of independent actions from the United Sta...
Tsuneo "Nabe" Watanabe. Japan-US alliance, Security in Asia, Politics and diplomacy of Japan and the United States. Tsuneo “Nabe” Watanabe is a senior fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, an independent policy research organization in Tokyo.
Jul 27, 2022 · Tsuneo Watanabe is a Senior Fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (Japan). His research interests include the Japan-U.S. alliance, Asian security, and the politics and diplomacy of Japan and the United States.
Aug 18, 2023 · Over a lengthy career in journalism, Watanabe Tsuneo (1926–), now the representative director and editor in chief at Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, has left behind countless articles...
