Japan can and it already has good relations with all three states bro. For one it will help meet Japan's future energy needs and we desperately need expertise in area such as Nuclear power and so forth. I'm heartened to read what you wrote about JETRO, and that would make sense, after all Pakistan is a country of 200 million people, which sits in one of the most geo-strategic important regions in the world.
But I have to say again that I was taken back by Japan signing its first trade agreement with Pakistan, Pakistan waving war reparations, Pakistan was the first Asian state to visit Japan after the war, the Japanese returned the honour and so forth.
It's just sad that many Pakistanis don't know this and I'm also certain that very few if any Japanese have heard of such close ties.
I hope they come back. I would love to see Japanese expertise at work in Pakistan. I also intend to visit Japan as soon as I can.
Some more stuff bro:
Ancient relations between the Gandhara region and Japan existed around 1300 years ago. The progressive branch of Buddhism, Mahayana Buddism (in Japanese Daijo Bukyo), embraced by Japanese, was flourished in Taxila. Daijo Bukyo gave rise to magnificent art, architecture,
sculpture, and paining in Japan. Culturally, Japan seems to be an extension of ancient Gandhara civilization.
Pakistan was among the first few countries that had ratified the Japanese peace treaty even before the United States.
Pakistan established diplomatic and trade contacts with Japan since 1948
In order to meet the acute shortage of food in Japan caused after the war, Pakistan shipped 60,000 tons of rice through Nichimen vessels to Japan in 1952 and 1953 carrying the signboard ‘Donated Rice to the Emperor of Japan by the Government of Pakistan’. Such was the national sentiment between the two sides in the 1950s.
General Ayub during his visit in the 1960 was received by the emperor Hirohito himself.
His excellency remarked;
“Bonded not only by age of old relationship of culture and civilization but also by the modern ties of trade and cooperation, both Japan and Pakistan have first developed a unique identify of thought and we are emphatic in our belief that in between themselves both the governments and the people of these two countries are by virtue of their deep-rooted love for peace capable of exercising an irresistible influence on world opinion”
Japan aided Pakistan greatly through its Japanese Official Development Assistance program.
Sadly things declined with time and differences regarding China, Nuclear weapons and so on. Let's hope for a rekindling, which has begun again.
@Nihonjin1051 I edited my previous post and added more details."Fun facts" if you like.