Seisaku Dai

The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, or GRIPS, is an elite and highly selective graduate school located in Minato, Tokyo. Funded by the Japanese Government, it is also one of Asia's leading think tanks of policy scholars and social scientists focused on policy studies. It offers programs in security and international affairs, diplomacy, international development studies, economics, political science, disaster studies, and science and technology policies, among others.OverviewLocally known as the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, GRIPS is a stand-alone graduate school with an attached research center and a global reach. In January 2015, IDEAS ranked GRIPS to be the second highest-ranking Economics and Finance institute in Japan, after the University of Tokyo. IDEAS also ranked GRIPS the 13th highest-ranking Economics and Finance research institution in Asia during the same time period based on research output and citations. The University of Tokyo is said to be taking over as GRIPS' mother institution in the coming academic cycles, with the former's Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) to merge with the latter.