SPF World Views

<p>Today’s digital infrastructure powers almost everything we depend on, from hospitals and energy grids to supply chains, elections, and national security. But, that same infrastructure has become a strategic...

<p>While global attention tends to focus on large-scale wars in places like Ukraine and Gaza, many other violent conflicts, often rooted in unresolved struggles over self-determination, continue largely out of...

<p>This is part two of our special rebroadcast of NHK World programs looking at the concept of the blue economy. In part one, we explored Japan’s perspective. For part two, we turn our attention to countries in...

<p>Around the world, our ocean is under immense pressure from climate change and plastic pollution to the depletion of critical resources. Against this backdrop, the “blue economy” has emerged as a key concept for...

<p>What will the strategic landscape look like 30 years from now? This question drives the creation of Global Strategic Trends (GST), a flagship report series that explores long-term outlooks and highlights potential...

<p>In this episode, we welcome Dr. Santosh Kumar Rauniyar, research fellow for the Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. He's been spearheading the projects at the foundation focusing...

<p>Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, just one week after taking office, has faced her first major diplomatic test – a summit meeting in Japan with U.S. President Donald Trump during his closely watched Asia...

<p>In this episode of SPF World Views, we're sharing a special rebroadcast of the keynote speech given by Atul Khare, UN Under-Secretary General for Operational Support, at a recent event at the Sasakawa Peace...

<p>Our guest today is Professor Carlo Sagun, President and CEO of Bayan Family of Foundations (BFF) in the Philippines. In this conversation, we take a deep dive into what exactly it means to add the word “social” to...

<p>In this episode of SPF World Views, Dr. Comfort Ero, President of the International Crisis Group, and SPF Senior Research Fellow Ippeita Nishida dive into the current state of global crises around the world and their...

<p>In this episode of SPF World Views, we're excited to share a rebroadcast of a special program aired on NHK World earlier in January called “The Second Trump Presidency: Views from Japan.” In this program, I had the...

<p>Our guest today is Nobukatsu Kanehara, Executive Director of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Kanehara san has decades of experience in Japanese government, serving in a variety of positions in the Ministry of Foreign...

<p>Our guest today is Hadianto Rasyid, Mayor of Palu City, located in the province of Central Sulawesi in eastern Indonesia. In 2018, Central Sulawesi was hit by a triple disaster: a magnitude 7.5 earthquake followed by...

<p>For small island states, rising sea levels and erosion caused by climate change pose an existential threat. The Maldives, a country of nearly 200 inhabited islands dotting the Indian Ocean is one such country...

<p>Eighty years ago in the spring of 1944 on the border between modern day Myanmar and the states of Manipur and Nagaland in Northeast India, Japanese and British forces fought in what is regarded as some of the...