Japan Economy Forum

[Nike]

Wish the best of Japan-Asean partnership.

The whole region shall be a peaceful one as people here are all Asians. Japan is always part of it and has been aiding for decades through agencies OECF or today's JBIC.

As long as Yankees get out of Asia, from Japan, Korea and Asean, there's always stability and properity here.

The bottom line is we want an independent proud Asian land.

Occupied Prosperity is always a shame.

unfortunately Yankee presence in Pacific and East Asia is what made such superficial peace in the region can be maintained until today.

 

[kawaraj]

unfortunately Yankee presence in Pacific and East Asia is what made such superficial peace in the region can be maintained until today.

I like this word but we are not assuming otherwise had Yankees been not there.

 

[Nike]

I like this word but we are not assuming otherwise had Yankees been not there.

what do you think can deter any country for not to invade or made an aggression against others, especially after the fall of Soviet Union?

 

[Aepsilons]

Both China and Japan are economically powerful states....But the advantage of Japan is that it has very good image or soft power image across the world. It never gets engaged in any other country to control its policies or any kind of occupier of resource mindset. Japan always invest or supports their partner to grow with them where as China is basically goes to a place where they take complete control of the investment as well as the resources unless and otherwise, the nation state where investment is happening is smart enough to understand and creates appropriate checks and balances to Chinies investment.

Be partner with Japan to grow with them economically and technologically in the long term, and you can partner with China to gain cheap loand with very min interests and some immediate term gains...but no long term gains..

India is a classic example. Japan is a partner to India's progress and economic investment but you will never see any headline where Japan involves itself into any kind setting the tone with its own agenda...Where as all the West and China always tries to enforce India to bend some rules to do business...

My post is not specifically anti China as even West does the same with India in bussiness like China...But i would like to appriciate Japan for its economic relation with India which is purely non political in nature..

Thank you for that honest, objective analysis, @Kaniska .

 

[kawaraj]

what do you think can deter any country for not to invade or made an aggression against others, especially after the fall of Soviet Union?

this world is not for invading and it's for progress.

don't live in propoganda, live in real life. China is posed as the major agressor, by WHOM? at the time China is busy feeding their 1.3 billion. And even without this huge burden, the reasoning behind this "China Agression" theory is in doubt.

 

[Aepsilons]

An exhibition of art treasures from Taipei’s National Palace Museum that is being shown at the Tokyo National Museum through Sept. 15 is attracting a large number of Japanese interested in Chinese artwork. The event at the Heiseikan Special Exhibition Galleries, the first such exhibit held in an Asian country outside Taiwan, is so popular that it attracted some 210,000 visitors from its opening on June 24 through late July. It is hoped that relations between Japan and Taiwan will deepen not only in the economic field but also in the field of cultural exchanges.

The Kuomintang government, which ruled the Republic of China, moved art treasures from the National Palace Museum in Beijing to safety in inland areas during Japan’s military aggression from the 1930s. It then moved them to Taiwan when it fled to the island after being defeated in civil war by the Chinese Communist forces led by Mao Zedong in 1949, and the National Palace Museum has some 700,000 works of art. During China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and ’70s, historic cultural objects were thought to represent “old ways of thinking” and many were destroyed, so the Kuomintang’s decision to move these priceless works of art to Taiwan might have saved them from such a fate.

Some 180 works of art are on display at the Tokyo National Museum. Among them are vessels made of jewels and bronzeware as well as works of calligraphy. The exhibition includes a Qing dynasty artwork titled “Jadeite Cabbage,” which was made some time in the 18th or 19th century and has never been lent out before. The piece, which looks like a real cabbage and was on display for only the first two weeks of the exhibition, was so popular that at times people had to wait in line for four hours to see it.

The exhibition will move to the Kyushu National Museum in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 7 and will be held there through late November. The highlight of that exhibition will be an agate sculpture that resembles stewed cubed pork. This work of art will be on display for just two weeks.

Although the current exhibition is a resounding success, it was difficult to hold such an event earlier becaues of the complicated history of China, Taiwan and Japan concerning the “One China” principle. In 1965, the holding of an exhibition in Japan of treasures from the Taipei museum was considered but did not materialize because Taiwan, which wanted to use the event to promote its existence as the Republic of China, and Japan, which wanted to avoid antagonizing China, could not reach an agreement on conditions for the event.

In 1972, Japan and China normalized relations and Tokyo severed its diplomatic ties with Taipei. In recent years, there was another attempt to hold an exhibition in Japan featuring treasures from the National Palace Museum. Taiwan opposed the plan out of concern that China might try to seize the exhibits on the grounds that they had been “plundered” from China. But a law to promote art exhibitions from abroad, which pro-Taiwan Japanese lawmakers successfully enacted in March 2011, eliminated the possibility of seizure by China and paved the way for the current exhibition.

There was one unfortunate development with the current exhibition. Some of the pamphlets and posters omitted the kanji for “national” from the Chinese notation of the National Palace Museum. There is speculation that some Japanese media co-sponsoring the exhibition omitted it out of consideration for Beijing. Taiwan protested and the pamphlets and posters were revised in time for the exhibition opening, but the incident forced Taiwan’s first lady Christine Chow to skip her appearance at the opening ceremony and to postpone her visit to Japan to early August.

Despite occasional difficult periods, Japan and Taiwan have long enjoyed close and friendly relations. Although they do not have official diplomatic relations, the bilateral relationship remains strong, as the art exhibition reflects. Both governments should strive to maintain close, cooperative ties.


The fruit of good Japan-Taiwan ties | The Japan Times

@TaiShang , @Kolaps

 

[Nike]

this world is not for invading and it's for progress.

don't live in propoganda, live in real life. China is posed as the major agressor, by WHOM? at the time China is busy feeding their 1.3 billion. And even without this huge burden, the reasoning behind this "China Agression" theory is in doubt.

You are so naive, this world is solely made up between interest and clash of interest between Nations. And morally speaking, Asia-Pacific countries right now is experience a thing as their European counterpart who had experienced in first hand about the rising of Nationalism and the results is two-World War in which had wreaking havoc so much in European continent.

Who live in propaganda? not only China can poised danger for their neighbors, even Vietnam has been known as aggressor against Cambodia, Indonesia has been invading Timor Leste, Japan is a notorious aggressor in the past, so with the middle Kingdom of China, all of us is a danger itself, this Pacific region is made up of Countries who has a past as aggressors countries . To have a Superpower country who forced their so called "rules and norms" is what made superficial peace in Pacific region can be maintained until today.

 

[Aepsilons]

@TaiShang , @Kolaps , @Chinese-Dragon , @Genesis ;



Taiwan and Japan have set a good example by addressing territorial disputes in peaceful ways, former AIT director Douglas Paal said yesterday.

Paal said that the East China Sea peace initiative proposed by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) “is a positive thing” that tries to find solutions to the frictions among countries in the region.

The idea of the peace initiative is to “protect your sovereignty and still share resources,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the East China Sea Peace Forum in Taipei. “I think Japan and Taiwan have set a very good example for the rest of the region.”

“It will be very helpful if we can shift the emphasis from contention and friction over resources to cooperation of resources,” he said.

Given rising tensions and growing nationalism in Asia, Paal said now is an important moment to change the emphasis from friction to resource-sharing and economic growth.

On the issue of Taiwan-US ties, he said the basic purpose of the long-standing bilateral relationship is to “make sure that Taiwan has adequate defenses, so that they can be a force for stability.”

“Weakness breeds instability and a weak Taiwan could be a source of tension and instability in the region,” he said.

Paal said he believed that the US would remain highly committed to providing Taiwan with adequate defense services and equipment to maintain an effective deterrence against attack.

“I don’t think that will change, despite the ins and outs of the rebalance strategy toward China,” he said.

Asked about tensions between China and Japan over the Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台), which Taiwan also claims, Paal said he hoped a meeting between the leaders of the two countries could take place at this year’s APEC summit in Beijing in November.

Ma proposed the peace initiative in August 2012 to address disputes over the Diaoyutais, also known as the Diaoyu Archipelago (釣魚群島) in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan.

The peace initiative calls for the parties concerned to shelve differences and jointly explore resources.

After Ma proposed the initiative, Taiwan has taken a similar approach to dealing with fishing disputes with the Philippines, with both countries negotiating an agreement on cooperation in maritime law enforcement in their overlapping economic waters.

In April last year, Taiwan and Japan also signed a historic fishery agreement that allows fishermen from both countries to operate in a designated area of their overlapping economic waters in the East China Sea to resolve longstanding disputes.

Organized by the Taipei-based Prospect Foundation to mark the second anniversary of Ma’s peace initiative, yesterday’s forum brought together nearly two dozen local and foreign academics to discuss cooperation, regional conflict prevention, economic integration and the future prospects of the peace initiative.



Taiwan and Japan show how to settle rows: Paal - Taipei Times

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

The PRC is recognized by every major nation on Earth (as well as the UN and international law) as the SOLE and rightful representative of all China.

Really, they should be coming to the PRC to talk about this stuff. The ROC claims to represent China, but no one in the world recognizes that, including Japan which cut off diplomatic ties with the ROC in 1972.

 

[Aepsilons]

I think that Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs should discuss this possible scenario with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If Japan can find commonality with Taiwan, then I think it is possible with the People's Republic of China.

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

I think that Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs should discuss this possible scenario with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If Japan can find commonality with Taiwan, then I think it is possible with the People's Republic of China.

give the islands to Independant Ryukyu Kingdom is a possible solution

 

[Aepsilons]

give the islands to Independant Ryukyu Kingdom is a possible solution

Surely you jest. Ryukyu Islands are eternally part of Japan.

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

Surely you jest. Ryukyu Islands are eternally part of Japan.

No, it's just under your control, the sovereignty of 琉球 is to be determined.

 

[xunzi]

Surely you jest. Ryukyu Islands are eternally part of Japan.

After you annexed it. Of course, it is all technical. LOL

 

[Aepsilons]

After you annexed it. Of course, it is all technical. LOL

Hello my friend, good to see you here. ha ha ha