Open Access Book on EU Japan Relations

This book is the result of an international cooperation launched through an e-conference organised from May 2020 to July 2020 on blogdroiteuropeen, for its fourth anniversary. It brings together ten papers of legal academics or practionners from the EU and Japan. The e-conference and this book were organised by Yumiko Nakanishi, Professor of European Union Law at the Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, … Continuer de lire Open Access Book on EU Japan Relations

The significance of the Strategic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Japan in International Order, Yumiko Nakanishi

Given the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and South Korea and Japan, Japanese industries with South Korean competitors, particularly want an FTA with the EU. The 20th EU-Japan Summit took place in Brussels on 28 May 2011, shortly after the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011. The joint press statement from the summit referred to the Year of Solidarity … Continuer de lire The significance of the Strategic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Japan in International Order, Yumiko Nakanishi

Opening Remarks on the e-conference on EU-Japan Relations, Olivia Tambou

The purpose of this small post is to contextualize the future papers of this e-conference on EU- Japan relations. Why an e-conference on EU-Japan relations? The year 2020 marks the first anniversary of the new step in EU-Japan relations within the provisional application of the Strategic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Japan, of the other … Continuer de lire Opening Remarks on the e-conference on EU-Japan Relations, Olivia Tambou