Presenting the 20th Policy
Recommendations on
"Towards Collective
Human Security:A New
Internationalism and
Japan" to Prime Minister
KOIZUMI in July 2001
The fundamental purpose of JFIR is to promote policy-oriented research. Therefore, all the activities of JFIR are directed towards that purpose. Two Councils were set up specifically for this. One is for the policy recommendations in the long-term perspective and the other is for those in the short-term and immediate perspective. The former is the Policy Council and the latter is the Emergency Policy Council. In the case of the Policy Council, a Task Force headed by a member of the Policy Council and staffed by research fellows of JFIR serves the Plenary Council as assistants for making an intensive in-depth analysis of the issue and working out a draft of the policy recommendations.
When more than two thirds of the full members of the Policy Council endorse the draft or its revision, it is approved and becomes the recommendations of those members of the Policy Council who sign it. Please note that in this and other cases, the Forum takes no institutional position on issues of foreign policy, though its members are encouraged not only to analyze but to propose alternatives on matters of foreign policy. Though the Forum helps its members to formulate policy recommendations, the responsibility for the contents is that of those members of the Forum who sign them alone.
Since 1988 the Policy Council has publicly announced 32 policy recommendations and presented them to the Prime Minister of Japan. Recent Policy Recommendations have covered themes such as "Japan's Strategy for its Agriculture in the Globalized World," "Nature of Russian State and Japan's Strategy towards Russia," "India's Leap Forward and Japan," "Japan and China in the Changing Asia," and "The Establishment of an International Energy Security System."
| 27 October 2009 |
The 2nd meeting of the JFIR Policy Council on "Prospects and Challenges for the Acceptance of Foreigners to Japan" Held
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October 22, 2009 |
The Japan Times |
Drafted by |
Signed by ITO Kenichi, Chairman YOSHIDA Haruki, Vice-Chairman and 85 other Members of the Policy Council |
| 1. | Review the ʺBasic Principles of National Defense,ʺ Including the ʺThree Non‐Nuclear Principlesʺ |
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| 2. | Cooperate with the U.S. Military Transformation Process and Approve the Exercise of the Right to Collective Self‐Defense |
| 3. | Thoroughly Review ʺthe Three Principles on Arms Exportsʺ |
| 4. | Improve and Strengthen the National System of Intelligence Gathering and Analysis |
| 5. | Take the Initiative in Promoting Dialogues and Cooperation in East Asia |
| 6. | Strengthen and Develop Japan‐U.S. Strategic Concert toward China |
| 7. | Confront the Existing Cases of Infringement upon Japanʹs National Sovereignty |
| 8. | Establish a ʺGeneral Law for International Peace Cooperationʺ and Contribute to the Global ʺCollective Securityʺ |
| 9. | Simultaneously Pursue Nuclear Nonproliferation, Disarmament and Strict Control of Peaceful Use |
January 14, 2009
Drafted by
HONMA Masayoshi and
his Task Force members of
ARAKI Ichiro,
OIZUMI Kazunuki,
MARUYAMA Yasuyuki
and
Signed by
ITO Kenichi, Chairman and
98 other Members of the Policy Council
(15 January,2009)
February 20, 2008
Drafted by
HAKAMADA Shigeki and his Task Force members of NAGOSHI Kenro, FUSE Hiroyuki, YOSHIOKA Akiko
and
Signed by
ITO Kenichi, Chairman and 79 other Members of the Policy Council
(25 February,2008)
September 7, 2007
Drafted by
SAKAKIBARA Eisuke and his Task Force members of HIROSE Takako,
KONDO Masanori, YOSHIKATA Yuji, MURAKAMI Masayasu
and
Signed by
ITO Kenichi, Chairman and 100 other members of the Policy Council
The 2nd meeting of the JFIR Policy Council on "Prospects and Challenges for the Acceptance of Foreigners to Japan" was held on 27 October 2009. ...
