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1. Introduction: now or never, Marie Söderberg, Axel Berkofsky, Christopher W. Hughes and Paul Midford Part I: Political and security cooperation 2. The strategic partnership agreement: new and better or more of the same EU–Japan security cooperation? Axel Berkofsky 3. Abe’s pro-active pacifism, values diplomacy: implications for EU–Japan political and security cooperation, Paul Midford 4. Ordinary/civilian, not normative/post-modern: lessons from the EU for Japanese security policy, Paul Bacon and Hidetoshi Nakamura 5. Japan and EU defence production cooperation: a strategically important but nascent relationship, Christopher W. Hughes Part II: Political economy, development, and normative issues 6. EU–Japan relations in the age of competitive economic governance in Asia, Maaike Okano-Heijmans and Takashi Terada 7. Taking the lead in current and future trade relationships, Patricia A. Nelson  8. Negative interest rate policy by the Bank of Japan from the perspective of monetary policy in Europe, Markus Heckel 9. EU and Japanese aid and trade: legitimising "Chinese Democrary" in ASEAN, André Asplund 10. Japan and the EU: SDGs and changing patterns of development cooperation, Marie Söderberg Part III: Reflections by the two superpowers 11. The evolution of America’s implicit support of EU–Japan security relations, Jeffrey W. Hornung 12. From "wider west" to "strategic alliance": an assessment of China’s influence in EU–Japan relations, Lilei Song and Liang Cai 13. Conclusions: the way forward, Marie Söderberg, Axel Berkofsky, Christopher W. Hughes and Paul Midford