Kenji Kushida
@kenjikushida.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Global Japan, Innovative Japan | Japan - Silicon Valley Innovation Initiative (JSV) | Startup Japan | Silicon Valley Revisited
Global Japan, Innovative Japan | Japan - Silicon Valley Innovation Initiative (JSV) | Startup Japan | Silicon Valley Revisited
I was interviewed today on a segment for PBS NewsHour just before the meeting between Prime Minister Takaichi and the US president.
It's always an honor -- thank you!
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
It's always an honor -- thank you!
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
October 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I was interviewed today on a segment for PBS NewsHour just before the meeting between Prime Minister Takaichi and the US president.
It's always an honor -- thank you!
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
It's always an honor -- thank you!
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Japanese politics took several unexpected turns, with Takaichi Sanae winning the LDP presidency and the Komeito leaving its coalition with the LDP. Here's my @carnegieendowment.org piece (that had to course-correct quickly to push out before the long weekend).
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Is Takaichi Japan’s Future?
A contender to be Japan’s next prime minister, Takaichi is quickly being confronted by complicated coalition dynamics and tough domestic problems.
carnegieendowment.org
October 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Japanese politics took several unexpected turns, with Takaichi Sanae winning the LDP presidency and the Komeito leaving its coalition with the LDP. Here's my @carnegieendowment.org piece (that had to course-correct quickly to push out before the long weekend).
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
What awaits Japan's Next Prime Minister? My new piece from @carnegieendowment.org aimed at the space between short news articles and commentaries that are timely but lack space for a deeper dive, and deeper academic analyses that take far longer to come out.
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
What Awaits Japan’s Next Prime Minister
With the resignation of Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, Japan’s next leader faces a challenging international and domestic landscape. Reeling from electoral defeats, the LDP must navigate security and ...
carnegieendowment.org
September 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What awaits Japan's Next Prime Minister? My new piece from @carnegieendowment.org aimed at the space between short news articles and commentaries that are timely but lack space for a deeper dive, and deeper academic analyses that take far longer to come out.
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Write a little piece last week about how concrete ways that Japan and South Korea can engage in technology collaborate by addressing common societal challenges. Now, on to action!
South Korea and Japan face geopolitical, demographic, and economic challenges – and the unpredictability of the Trump administration doesn’t help. But last week’s meeting between the two countries’ leaders was a positive sign, writes @kenjikushida.bsky.social: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
How Technology Cooperation Can Help Japan and South Korea Seize the Moment Trump Created
Tech collaboration could be particularly effective when discussed as solutions to specific social challenges facing both countries.
carnegieendowment.org
August 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Write a little piece last week about how concrete ways that Japan and South Korea can engage in technology collaborate by addressing common societal challenges. Now, on to action!
Carnegie has a series of short pieces focused how various countries' relationship with the US has changed in the first 100 days of this US administration, from the perspective of each country. Here is mine on Japan.
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
Japan Is Trying to Be a Model Partner. Trump Is Pushing It Away.
Tokyo won’t walk away from Washington, but it also is working to strengthen economic and security ties with other countries.
carnegieendowment.org
April 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Carnegie has a series of short pieces focused how various countries' relationship with the US has changed in the first 100 days of this US administration, from the perspective of each country. Here is mine on Japan.
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
Delighted to announce the new "Innovative Japan, Global Japan" page at @carnegieendow.bsky.social that puts our distinctive research streams and programs in one place.
carnegieendowment.org/programs/asi...
carnegieendowment.org/programs/asi...
Innovative Japan, Global Japan
Japan is more innovative than commonly understood, and more global than often given credit for. Too often the narrative for Japan is that it lacks the capability to innovate effectively in its several...
carnegieendowment.org
December 13, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Delighted to announce the new "Innovative Japan, Global Japan" page at @carnegieendow.bsky.social that puts our distinctive research streams and programs in one place.
carnegieendowment.org/programs/asi...
carnegieendowment.org/programs/asi...