The EU-Japan Forum was an academic forum to promote research and collaboration on key policy issues between the EU and Japan. The Forum featured two public plenary discussions of broad topics and 5 breakout roundtable expert-led discussions. The themes covered ranged from science & technology (S&T) to social sciences and humanities (SSH). As the EU and Japan approached their self-imposed deadline for concluding their negotiations for an EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement / Economic Partnership Agreement, the Forum began with a keynote address by H.E. Ambassador Kazuo Kodama of the Mission of Japan to the EU.

The Forum was organised by Waseda University, the Université Libre de Bruxelles - Institut d’études Européennes, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) and was supported by the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation.

A formal event report is being prepared by the EIAS and this page will link to it once it is published.

The structure of the event was as follows: