17 Dec 2006

India & Japan: Democracy as a Strategic Weapon
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "India's Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, visited Japan from December 13 to 16, 2006, at the invitation of Mr. Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Prime Minster. This was in return for a visit paid by the then Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, to India in the last week of April, 2005. [...] Grandiose ideas of strategic relationships have little meaning without substantial economic content and without intellectual attraction to each other. Both are missing in the case of the India-Japan relationship. [...] According to Japanese official figures, Japanese businessmen invested US $ 170 million in India last year, less than three per cent of the amount they invested in China. Japanese political leaders and government policy-makers may be excited by the idea of joining hands with democratic India for promoting a new Asia, but Japanese businessmen feel themselves more comfortable in authoritarian China than in democratic India." - b.raman
[The author, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed. ]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers21/paper2064.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
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