Besides the fact that they provide the first touch points for Atlanta companies doing business in their respective countries, these consuls, honorary consuls and trade officials end up becoming de facto ambassadors for the city and region they’ve come to call home. The South, they find, is a region of both political and economic dynamism.
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Getting Out There in 2025: Foreign Policy Lessons From Global Atlanta’s Reporting in Four Countries
Beyond local reporting, we look for the ground truth that comes only from seeing, feeling, touching a place, as well as nailing down impactful interviews with top officials that may be hard to come by back home.
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Weekly Briefing: The Kemp Interview
YKK is the presenting sponsor of Global Atlanta’s Japan Channel. Subscribe here for monthly Japan newsletters. November 15, 2025 | v33i13 – Read online | Subscribe This issue of the […]
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Kemp: Japan Trip Crucial for Georgia as Focus Shifts From Tariffs to Strategic Investments
YKK is the presenting sponsor of Global Atlanta’s Japan Channel. Subscribe here for monthly Japan newsletters. As Gov. Brian Kemp welcomed Japanese Ambassador Shigeo Yamada to the State Capitol in […]
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Former Georgia Tech Professor Decorated by Japanese Government
Retired Georgia Tech Professor Brian Woodall, a political scientist with deep expertise on East Asia and three books on Japan to his credit, has received one of the Japanese government’s top honors.
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Kemp Interview: Governor Says Korea Trip Changed the Narrative, Cleared the Air After ICE Raid
Despite the circumstances, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s third trip to South Korea in late October felt more like a homecoming than damage control.
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By the Numbers: Southern States Outline Japanese Investments, Showing What Was at Stake in Trump’s Trade Talks
The annual SEUS-Japan conference last week in Tokyo gave states a major stage on which to quantify the extensive impacts of Japanese investment in the South.
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Japan’s New Consul General in Atlanta Debuts at Southeast U.S. Conference in Tokyo
After taking up his post in Atlanta just two weeks ago, Kenichi Matsuda might be forgiven for skipping this year’s Southeast-U.S. Japan alliance conference in Tokyo.
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Meet the Japanese Georgia Tech Alum Driving Lunar Colonization
YKK is the presenting sponsor of Global Atlanta’s Japan Channel. Subscribe here for monthly Japan newsletters. Before Takeshi Hakamada arrived at Georgia Tech in the mid-2000s, he’d almost been afraid […]
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As Gov. Kemp Arrives in Japan, Georgia’s New Tokyo Rep Reflects on the Future of Investment, Trade Ties
At a time of turbulence, Takao Yamamoto says tried and true factors that have brought Georgia 50-plus years of success in Japan — solid friendships, tended with care, concern and mutual trust — will continue to shape the relationship.