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Japan-Latin America: Taking Advantage of Mutual Space and Opportunities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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Japan's Current Role as the world's most dominant economic power has had an impact on its relations with Latin America despite the absence, historically at least, of few long-term ties between the two regions. While there is some evidence that contacts may date as far back as 1609, relations between them only began to acquire a certain relevance as recently as the 1970s and 1980s, when the Japanese domestic model, acquired after World War II, began to seem assured.
Nevertheless, it is impossible to understand either the relations between these two actors, or their future trends, without examining the policies and conditions that have marked Japan's reinsertion into the world — from its situation as a defeated, war-devastated, resource-poor country to one that is not only extremely wealthy but with the potential to become a superpower (Time, 1988: 6-9).
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , Spring 1991 , pp. 59 - 86
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- Copyright © University of Miami 1991
Footnotes
This article was first published in Spanish in PROSPEL's Anuario de Politicas Exteriores Latinoamericanas 1989-1990: El Desafio de los ‘90s, edited by Heraldo Muñoz V. (Caracas, Venezuela: Editorial Nueva Sociedad, 1990). This article was translated into English by Jane Marchi.
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