I’m in Tokyo this week to run an economic security seminar. It’s part of the Economic Security Global Forum Weeks, a three-month extravaganza that is taking place under the auspices of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). Institutions and organizations from around the world are holding events in Tokyo that will assemble businesses, policymakers and researchers for discussions of economic security.
It’s a timely program. Economic security continues to dominate policymaking in most capitals and has become a permanent part of the policy process. This is no fad or passing fancy.
Tokyo is a great place to discuss these issues since Japan has been the pacesetter for economic security policy for nearly a decade. That’s understandable, if not to be expected. The country has been forced to take a holistic approach to national security — “economic security is national security” — because of restrictions on the exercise of hard power imposed by the Constitution.
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