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Ever since 1992, successive Indian governments have been pursuing the “Look East” policy with considerable vigour and success. Though the drive towards the East started with its focus essentially on …
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Japan is going to the polls again on December 14 at a time when the House of Representatives has not even completed half of its tenure. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s …
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Even though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been travelling widely across continents to bolster Japan’s diplomatic reach, he is sorely aware that he is not in a position to achieve …
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At last, the speculation about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan has come to an end with the official announcement that he will undertake his four-day trip from August …
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President Barack Obama visited Japan on April 24-25 as part of his four-nation Asian trip that included South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines. The fact that a US President visited Japan as a state guest for the first time in the last 18 years gave it considerable symbolic significance and seriousness.
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The Fukushima triple tragedy of March 2011 dealt a rude shock to the long-term goals of Japan’s national energy policy. Japanese governments since then have wrestled very hard to address …
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The crisis in Ukraine culminating in the Russian annexation of Crimea has created a delicate dilemma for the foreign policy establishment in Japan. Considering the close and warm relations that …
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s forthcoming visit to Japan in the last week of May to meet his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe at the annual summit will be one more significant …
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