This e-conference was organised by Yumiko Nakanishi, Professor of European Union Law at the Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and Dr. Olivia Tambou, Associate Professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine, Editor of Blogdroiteuropeen. Special thanks to both Dr. Edoardo Stopionni and Dr. Alessandra Donati, senior research fellows at the Max Planck Institute of Luxembourg and members of the blogdroiteuropeen team, for their contribution to the organisation of the e-conference.

Here the whole papers published in this e-conference :

• Opening Remarks on the e-conference on EU-Japan Relations, Olivia Tambou
• The significance of the Strategic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Japan in International Order, Yumiko Nakanishi
• Some Reflections on the Human Rights Discourse in the EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement, Edoardo Stoppioni
• EU-Japan Cooperation in the security field from the perspective of Japan’s Legal Framework, Fumi Yoshimoto
• Intellectual Property in the context of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Japan, Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
• The precautionary approach in the Economic Partnership Agreement between EU and Japan: a threat to the EU precautionary principle? Alessandra Donati
• Development of the governmental procurement scheme through the japan-EU economic partnership agreement (jeuepa), by Koutaro Matsuzawa
• Rules of origin in the EU–Japan EPA, by Yusuke Hatakeyama
• EU-Japan mutual adequacy decision, by Hiroshi Miyashita
• Some brief conclusions at the time of the economic opening between the Levant and the Couchant, by P.Y. Monjal