Many of the countries in the Asia-Pacific region have been undergoing democratization as well as rapid economic growth in the past decade.
Further, the region as a whole has been experimenting with new security arrangements and regional cooperation at various levels of regional activities.
To respond to the changing context in the region, the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies was established in June 1987 in order to strengthen the research activities on the Asia-Pacific region, deemed extremely important to Japan.
The projects organized and carried out by the Center are the result of close consultations between in-house research fellows and other researchers in Japan and overseas counterpart institutions.
They also reflect the changes and emerging trends and issues in the region, such as Japan-Russia relations and China's emergence as a potential superpower.
Themes vary from year to year and for 2000, the following were covered:
- Research meeting on the domestic context of China's foreign policy;
- The East Asian regional order and ASEAN;
- The North Korean crisis and Japan-US-South Korea relations;
- International affairs in the Asia-Pacific region;
- Comprehensive security in the Asia-Pacific region;
- Research on changes to international relations and regional organizations/systems;
- A strategy of mutual understanding and cooperation in South Asia;
- The prospects for cultural interchange between Japan and SAARC countries;
- Drug crimes; and
- Actual state of cooperation within SAARC.
The Center encourages cooperative research with overseas counterparts as well as communication through computer networks.
 Reseachers |
| Research Fellow |
Haruka MATSUMOTO |
| Matsuo WATANABE |
| Adjunct Research Fellow | Tsutomu KIKUCHI |
| Hideya KURATA |
| Seiichirou TAKAGI |
| Susumu YAMAKAGE |
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