The Japan Institute of International Affairs (abbreviated as JIIA, Japanese: 日本国際問題研究所 nihon kokusai mondai kenkyūjo) is a foreign policy and security think-tank in Japan.
Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida was the first chair of JIIA.
Its current chairman is Kenichiro Sasae, the former head of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the United States of America.
It also publishes Kokusai Mondai, a monthly Japanese language magazine on foreign affairs.
[5] JIIA also conducts research projects on foreign policy issues related to the Asia Pacific region, Northeast Asia, Americas, Europe, Russia and CIS, Middle East and Africa, Security and Globalization.