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
1st Meeting May 26, 2023
Themes:
(1) Research plan
(2) Conceptual Model for Hybrid Threat Analysis
2nd Meeting June 27, 2023
Theme: Case application to Conceptual Model for Hybrid Threat Analysis
3rd Meeting August 1, 2023
Theme: Future research procedures
4th Meeting September 15, 2023
Theme: Hybrid threat analysis procedures
5th Meeting October 27, 2023
Theme: Examination of methods of hybrid threat activity
6th Meeting November 17, 2023
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)
7th Meeting January 23, 2024
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
8th Meeting February 29, 2024
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
1st Session December 13, 2023 (online)
Theme: Analysis using the Conceptual Model for Hybrid Threat Analysis
2nd Session January 25, 2024 (online)
Theme: How to analyze hybrid threats, etc.
3rd Session February 14, 2024 (Hybrid CoE)
Themes:
(1) How to analyze hybrid threats, etc.
(2) Checking the progress of the research
(3) Future research collaboration
Webinar
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 SpherePanelists
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.
- Murakami Masatoshi, Associate Professor, Kogakkan University
Research Notes / Commentary
Research Report for FY2023
*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.