Japan and South Asia : Still Distant Neighbours?

Reza, S. M. Ali

Japan and South Asia : Still Distant Neighbours?

Reza, S. M. Ali

国際公共政策研究, 2014, 18(2), 79-96

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タイトル	Japan and South Asia : Still Distant Neighbours?
著者	著者名 Reza, S. M. Ali
キーワード等	Japan
	South Asia
	SAARC
	India
	ODA
	economic cooperation
	geo-strategic partnership
抄録	TheJapan-South Asia relationship has traversed a lengthy pathway of “peaks and troughs” in the history of their relationship. Following a marked period of warmth in the immediate postwar period, Japan-South Asia relationship maintained a diminutive key during the Cold War era. It gained impetus with the historic visit of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu to the region in 1990 paving the way for formal cooperation between Japan and the SAARC. Despite the enormity of Japan’s Offi cial Development Assistance (ODA) to all the South Asian nations, the region’s share in Japan’s global trade and investment is very minimal, and is mostly India-centric. However, in recent years the South Asian region has become geo-strategically signifi cant to the scope of Japan’s strategic-diplomatic agenda. Afghanistan’s inclusion into the SAARC vis-à-vis South Asia and Japan being offered observer status to the SAARC along with China provides further weight to this relationship. Under the above backdrop, this article attempts to explore the reasons why South Asia has been strategically signifi cant to the breadth of the Japanese foreign policy agenda, and to what extent. This study argues that Japan-South Asian relations (particularly Japan-India relations) have witnessed substantial maturity in recent years; although it is still negligible in the economic field compared to Southeast Asia, but seemingly stronger in its geo-strategic partnership. Therefore, the relationship needs to be nourished effectively to enhance the mutual value and benefi ts for both. This article also believes that the growing Indo-Japan partnership would work as a ‘gear’ to strengthen the Japan-South Asia relationship with an aim to altering the existing ‘distant image’ of South Asia in Japan.
出版者	大阪大学大学院国際公共政策研究科
出版者	オオサカダイガクダイガクインコクサイコウキョウセイサクケンキュウカ
収録物名	国際公共政策研究
収録物名	International Public Policy Studies
巻(号)	18(2)
ページ	79-96
刊行年月	2014-03
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/51319
PISSN	13428101
NCID	AA1115271X
アクセス権	open access
出版タイプ	Version of Record
カテゴリ	紀要論文 Departmental Bulletin Paper
カテゴリ	国際公共政策研究 / 18巻2号(2014-03)

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DC.title	Japan and South Asia : Still Distant Neighbours?
DC.creator	Reza, S. M. Ali
DC.publisher	大阪大学大学院国際公共政策研究科
DC.publisher	オオサカダイガクダイガクインコクサイコウキョウセイサクケンキュウカ
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DC.subject	Japan
	South Asia
	SAARC
	India
	ODA
	economic cooperation
	geo-strategic partnership
DCTERMS.abstract	TheJapan-South Asia relationship has traversed a lengthy pathway of “peaks and troughs” in the history of their relationship. Following a marked period of warmth in the immediate postwar period, Japan-South Asia relationship maintained a diminutive key during the Cold War era. It gained impetus with the historic visit of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu to the region in 1990 paving the way for formal cooperation between Japan and the SAARC. Despite the enormity of Japan’s Offi cial Development Assistance (ODA) to all the South Asian nations, the region’s share in Japan’s global trade and investment is very minimal, and is mostly India-centric. However, in recent years the South Asian region has become geo-strategically signifi cant to the scope of Japan’s strategic-diplomatic agenda. Afghanistan’s inclusion into the SAARC vis-à-vis South Asia and Japan being offered observer status to the SAARC along with China provides further weight to this relationship. Under the above backdrop, this article attempts to explore the reasons why South Asia has been strategically signifi cant to the breadth of the Japanese foreign policy agenda, and to what extent. This study argues that Japan-South Asian relations (particularly Japan-India relations) have witnessed substantial maturity in recent years; although it is still negligible in the economic field compared to Southeast Asia, but seemingly stronger in its geo-strategic partnership. Therefore, the relationship needs to be nourished effectively to enhance the mutual value and benefi ts for both. This article also believes that the growing Indo-Japan partnership would work as a ‘gear’ to strengthen the Japan-South Asia relationship with an aim to altering the existing ‘distant image’ of South Asia in Japan.
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