Latin America is geographically far from Japan, and the antipodes of Japan is found off the coast of southern Brazil. Despite the distance, Japan has maintained relations with Latin American countries in terms of labor migration and economic relations...

The archipelago of Japan is made of more than three thousand Pacific islands. Most of them are tiny uninhabited spots of land, but they provide a sort of buffer zone between the four main Japanese islands and the non-Japanese Pacific islands....

The history of relations between Japan and Great Britain can be divided into four stages: the beginning of full relations in the mid-nineteenth century, the alliance, interwar, and post–World War II. Although the first contact between the two...

The relationship between Japan and the United States, which dates from the mid-nineteenth century, is complex and multifaceted. Two of its most important aspects are security and economic relations. When Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to enter...

Since the surrender after World War II and the return to the international community by the Treaty of San Francisco, Japanese diplomatic policy have been based on close partnership with the United States and the emphasis on the international...

Japan's ability to take a more responsible and constructive role for itself international affairs is inhibited by its own political system. The inability it has shown in issues like balance of trade and military intervention are attributable to stagnant and corrupt government. JAPAN...

Thailand's relationship with Myanmar continued to be problematic. Since the two countries share 2,000 kilometres of a common border, perhaps it is not surprising that there are problems such as disputed boundaries, smuggling, illegal migration and drug trafficking. The most serious related to Myanmar...