Tokyo Outpost

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Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today.

Episodes

  1. 08/11/2025

    Dr. William Chou on the Next Phase of the Japan–US Alliance

    Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today. Japan faces a shifting global landscape — from trade realignment to new security challenges. Dr William Chou, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Japan Chair at the Hudson Institute, discusses how Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's leadership could reshape Japan's economic-security agenda and the future of the US–Japan alliance.

    31 min

  2. 08/11/2025

    Dr. Moon Chung-in on South Korea's Foreign Policy Future【EN】

    Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today. South Korea finds itself navigating a challenging global landscape — from Trump tariffs to its ties with Japan. Former presidential advisor Moon Chung-in offers his insights.

    20 min

  3. 03/10/2025

    Jay Alabaster on Bridging the Divide Over Whaling【EN】

    Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today. What’s really behind Japan’s whaling debate? Journalist and researcher Jay Alabaster joins Tokyo Outpost to discuss life inside Taiji, clashes with Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson’s arrest, media bias in Japan and the West, and whether common ground can ever be found between tradition and activism.

    20 min

  4. 19/09/2025

    J. Mark Ramseyer on Why Japanese Studies Is in Crisis【EN】

    Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today. What’s behind the collapse of Japanese studies in American universities? Harvard Law Professor J. Mark Ramseyer joins Tokyo Outpost to discuss the decline of expertise, the comfort women controversy, and why academic integrity matters in today’s history debates.

    32 min

  5. 22/08/2025

    Governor Yuriko Koike on Tokyo's Global Vision and Innovation【JP】

    Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today. What does it take to lead and grow one of the world's greatest global cities? Governor Yuriko Koike joins Tokyo Outpost to discuss Tokyo's global strategy, how her metropolis fosters innovation, collaboration, entrepreneurship and startups, all while promoting youth and women, and the livelihoods of its 14 million residents. Koike shares her vision for a stronger, smarter, and more resilient metropolis that invites the world's attention.

    19 min

  6. 15/08/2025

    Fred Fleitz on Iran, North Korea, and Global Security 【EN】

    Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today. What happens when diplomacy fails — and the missiles launch? Former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz joins Tokyo Outpost to explain why the U.S. struck Iran, how Israel's intelligence operation shocked the world, and what Japan can do as threats from North Korea and China intensify.

    27 min
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Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today.

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  • Episodes
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