Leadership
Tobias Harris is the Founder and Principal of Japan Foresight LLC. He has observed Japan as a political risk analyst at Teneo Intelligence and as a researcher at universities and think tanks. He is also Senior Advisor for Japan at Aurora Macro Strategies. For two decades, he has written about Japan’s politics and the geopolitics of Asia for major world publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. He comments regularly about Japan on television and radio broadcasts. A native of Chicago, he now lives outside of Washington, DC with his wife and their two sons.
Tobias is the author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan, published by Hurst Publishers in August 2020. An updated paperback edition was published in October 2023.
Why Japan Foresight
When I first began studying Japan, I was often asked why bother. Why not China, people would say. Japan is aging. It’s stagnating.
Twenty years later, I no longer hear those questions. Japan’s leaders have experimented with monetary, fiscal, and industrial policy as they seek new sources of growth in a highly competitive Asia. Tokyo has assumed a more vocal leadership role in Asia’s geopolitics, using its power to shape the regional and international orders. And the Japanese people continue to adapt as their country is roiled by disruptive technological change and the challenges of an aging population. No longer an outlier, Japan is increasingly a model for how to cope with the challenges of the twenty-first century.
I started Japan Foresight to help investors and companies navigate this rapidly changing landscape, drawing upon two decades of experience as a researcher, political risk advisor, and author.
Tobias Harris
Founder and Principal
Japan Foresight 