Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today.

Japan faces a shifting global landscape — from trade realignment to new security challenges.

Dr William Chou, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Japan Chair at the Hudson Institute, discusses how Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's leadership could reshape Japan's economic-security agenda and the future of the US–Japan alliance.

Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today.

South Korea finds itself navigating a challenging global landscape — from Trump tariffs to its ties with Japan. Former presidential advisor Moon Chung-in offers his insights.

Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today.

What’s really behind Japan’s whaling debate? Journalist and researcher Jay Alabaster joins Tokyo Outpost to discuss life inside Taiji, clashes with Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson’s arrest, media bias in Japan and the West, and whether common ground can ever be found between tradition and activism.