Introduction : now or never? / Marie Söderberg, Axel Berkofsky, Christopher W. Hughes and Paul Midford
The strategic partnership agreement : new and better or more the same EU-Japan security cooperation? / Axel Berkofsky
Abe's pro-active pacifism, values diplomacy, China, and EU-Japan political and security cooperation / Paul Midford
Ordinary/civilian, not normative/post-modern : lessons from the EU for Japanese security policy / Paul Bacon and Hidetoshi Nakamura
Japan and EU defence production cooperation : a strategically important but nascent relationship / Christopher W. Hughes
EU-Japan relations in the age of competitive economic governance in Asia / Maaike Okano-Heijmans and Terada Takashi
Taking the lead in current and future trade relationships / Patricia A. Nelson
Negative interest rate policy by the Bank of Japan from the perspective of monetary policy in Europe / Markus Heckel
EU and Japanese aid and trade : legitimising "Chinese democrary" in ASEAN / André Asplund
Japan and the EU : SDGs and changing patterns of development cooperation / Marie Söderberg
The evolution of America's implicit support of EU-Japan security relations / Jeffrey W. Hornung
From "wider west" to "strategic alliance" : an assessment of China's influence in EU-Japan relations / Lilei Song and Liang Gai
Conclusions : the way forward.