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Maritime Security Study Group

Diplomacy and Security Survey Research Project FY2023-2025
Building Response Procedures and a Multilateral Joint Posture to Deter a Taiwan Contingency

Purpose

The Maritime Security Study Group, led by Saito Takashi, former Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), and consisting of related parties mainly from the Japan Ministry of Defense and JSDF, has been conducting research activities continuously since 2014. The study group is working on a three-year research project "Building Response Procedures and a Multilateral Joint Posture to Deter a Taiwan Contingency" funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 2023 and conducts research meetings on a monthly basis. The members and activities of the study group in FY2023 are as follows.

Members (honorifics omitted)

Chairman: Saito Takashi, Former Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, JSDF
Study group members:

  • Fukumoto Izuru, Former President, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Command and Staff College
  • Tokuchi Hideshi, Senior Research Advisor, Nakasone Peace Institute; President, Research Institute for Peace and Security
  • Hirata Hidetoshi, Former Commander, Air Training Command, Japan Air Self-Defense Force
  • Matsumura Goro, Former Commanding General, Northeastern Army, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
  • Nakamura Susumu, Senior Research Fellow, SFC Research Institute, Keio University
  • Sato Koichi, Professor, Oberlin University
  • Murakami Masatoshi, Associate Professor, Kogakkan University
  • Yamamoto Katsuya, Senior Research Fellow, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
  • Yoshida Yukari, Senior Fellow, The National Institute for Defense Studies
  • Kawashima Takashi, Senior Research Fellow, Nakasone Peace Institute
  • Yasue Mariko, Senior Research Fellow, Nakasone Peace Institute

*The following researchers from Nakasone Peace Institute also participate as cooperating study group members.

  • Komine Takao, Senior Research Counselor, Nakasone Peace Institute; Professor, Taisho University
  • Nagashima Jun, Senior Research Advisor, Nakasone Peace Institute
  • Hirose Yoko, Senior Fellow, Nakasone Peace Institute; Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
  • Hosoya Yuichi, Senior Fellow, Nakasone Peace Institute; Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University
  • Hisajima Naoto, Senior Research Fellow, Nakasone Peace Institute

Study Group Activities

Themes:
(1) Research plan
(2) Conceptual Model for Hybrid Threat Analysis

Theme: Case application to Conceptual Model for Hybrid Threat Analysis

Theme: Future research procedures

Theme: Hybrid threat analysis procedures

Theme: Examination of methods of hybrid threat activity

Themes:
(1) Discussion of research report for FY2023
(2) Preparation for the 1st exchange of opinions with the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

Themes:
(1) Discussion of research report for FY2023
(2) Preparation for the 2nd exchange of opinions with the Hybrid CoE
(3) Business trips to the Hybrid CoE and others

Themes:
(1) Report on business trips to the Hybrid CoE and others
(2) Discussion of research report for FY2023
(3) Research plan for FY2024

Exchange of opinions with the Hybrid CoE

Theme: Analysis using the Conceptual Model for Hybrid Threat Analysis

Theme: How to analyze hybrid threats, etc.

Themes:
(1) How to analyze hybrid threats, etc.
(2) Checking the progress of the research
(3) Future research collaboration

Webinar

NPI webinar "The risk of disinformation in Indo-Pacific Region--the influence on election and national security"
Organized by Research Project for the Risks in Information Sphere
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 16:00-17:15

Moderator

Osawa Jun, Senior Research Fellow, Nakasone Peace Institute; Leader, Research Project for the Risks in Information Sphere

Panelists

Research Project for the Risks in Information Sphere
  • Nagasako Tomoko, Researcher, Office of Cyber Domain Awareness, Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA)
  • Kawaguchi Takahisa, Senior Research Fellow, Tokio Marine dR Co., Ltd.
Maritime Security Study Group
  • Murakami Masatoshi, Associate Professor, Kogakkan University

Research Notes / Commentary

Deterring a Taiwan Contingency -A Study of Japan's Approach - by Kawashima Takashi (Senior Research Fellow, NPI)

The Essential Mechanism of Hybrid Warfare--"Fight in the cognitive space" integrating military and non-military means to achieve the ultimate objectives --" by Goro Matsumura (Former Commanding General Northeastern Army, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force)

Maritime Security Study Group released "Evaluating the Applicability and Challenges of the Conceptual Model for Hybrid Threat Analysis for Deterrence of a Taiwan Contingency" by Takashi Kawashima (Senior Research Fellow, NPI)

Research Report for FY2023

"Building Response Procedures and a Multilateral Joint Posture to Deter a Taiwan Contingency," Part 1: Analysis of the European Hybrid CoE Conceptual Model, Assumptions for Developing a Research Model, and Hybrid Threat Case Studies

*This study is funded by a grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for research and study on diplomacy and security projects adopted in FY2023.

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