ABOUT THE BOOK
fjrigjwwe9r0pp_Books:Description
This book traces evolution of India-Japan relations
starting from introduction of Buddhism in Japan to institutionlisation of
an annual prime ministerial level dialogue between the two countries. An
attempt has been made to study how the relationship between the two
Asian civilizations has evolved over the centuries, putting the three aspects
viz. political, economic and cultural/religious together. It is important to
establish the driving factors behind the India-Japan ties. Is it the Rise
of China, as many scholars have argued, which has compelled the two
Asian nations to seek a closer strategic partnership or is it the continuation
of the old civilisational ties between the two which was disrupted due to
circumstances such as the two World Wars and the Cold War period.
No doubt, the external factors have played an important
role in pushing the two Asian countries closer. But there are various factors
such as old historical and civilisational ties between the two countries built
around dialogues among the intellectuals that have played an important
role in pushing the two countries closer and that cannot be
discounted. After examining the historical ties, the book, divided into various
chapters, analyzes contemporary aspects of India-Japan relations in the fields
of security, trade, economics, infrastructure developments, civil nuclear
cooperation and their quest to forge a rule based order
ABOUT Author
fjrigjwwe9r0pp_Books:aboutAuthor
Shamshad
Ahmad Khan, until recently, was a Senior Researcher and Japan Foundation
Post Doctoral Fellow at Keio Research Institute, Keio University Shonan
Fujisawa Campus. He has a PhD degree in Japanese Studies from the School of
International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He keenly
follows developments in India-Japan relations and security and foreign affairs
of East Asian countries. He was a Mombukagakusho Fellow at Waseda University,
Tokyo while he was pursuing his PhD. He has subsequently been associated with
various institutes in Japan including the Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido
University (December 2010 to March 2011), the Institute for Developing
Economies (November 2012 to February 2012) and the Japan Institute of
International Affairs (November 2014 to January 2015) as a Visiting Research
Fellow. He has also been a Visiting Scholar to the Keizai Koho Centre, Tokyo.
He also had been associated with Indian think tanks; Institute of Defense
Studies and Analyses and subsequently with the Indian Council of World Affairs.
He was also a guest lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies where he
taught courses on Japan`s Foreign Relations and India-Japan relations to the
students of Japanese studies. He developed his interest in Japan while working
with Radio Japan NHK as a programme monitor from 1998-2007. Because of
his contribution to Japanese studies at such a young age, he was presented with
the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award by Japan`s former Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro
in 2011.
This
book was given final shape during author`s affiliation with Keio University
from October 2015 to August 2016 and was supported by research grant by Japan
Foundation.