OPRI conducts policy research on a sustainable blue economy and identifies enabling factors such as policies, innovative initiatives, and collective actions, while building upon local and regional characteristics. OPRI promotes multi-stakeholder policy dialogues to achieve the blue economy through interdisciplinary and inclusive approaches with various partners in Japan, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and around the world. Interdisciplinary research to promote the blue economy through the conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal resources (in fi sheries, aquaculture, tourism, marine renewable energy, etc.).
2020/12/15
International Webinar “Ocean Panel’s policy recommendations: Promoting sustainable ocean economies and international partnership”Michael C. HUANG, Hajime TANAKA, Junko TOYOSHIMA, Iwao FUJII, Atsushi WATANABE, and Masanori KOBAYASHI
2020/11/30
Virtual Conference on Blue Economy and Blue Finance: Toward Sustainable Development and Ocean GovernanceNagisa YOSHIOKA and Michael C. HUANG
2020/11/03
Discussing Collaboration on Maritime Challenges in East Asia -- OPRI-SPF co-hosts “2020 Sino-Japanese Maritime Dialogue” as virtual eventXiang GAO and Yuta KOMORI
2020/10/09
The Minister for Ocean Policy and high-level speakers discussed the blue recovery and the direction of forthcoming ocean policy discoursesMichael C. HUANG, Hajime TANAKA, Junko TOYOSHIMA, Atsushi WATANABE, and Masanori KOBAYASHI