From: Purnendra_Jain[atx]arts.ccmail.adelaide.edu.au
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:22 -0600 (CST)

DISTANT ASIAN NEIGHBOURS: JAPAN AND SOUTH ASIA Edited by
Purnendra C. Jain

Forthcoming, Winter 1995/96
Sterling, New Delhi
Fax: +91 11 685 1028

Contents

Foreword J.A.A. Stockwin

Preface Purnendra Jain

Japan and South Asia: Overview Purnendra Jain

Japan in a Dilemma: The Search for a Horizontal Japan-South Asia Relationship
Takako Hirose

Foreign Policies of South Asian Nations: Does Japan Matter? K.V. Kesavan

Japanese Investment in South Asia: The Case of India Hideki Esho

India and Japan: Newly Tempering Relations Purnendra Jain and Maureen Todhunter

Bangladesh and Japan: Linkages and Developing Relationships Abul Kalam

Pakistan-Japan Relations: A Study in Asian Bilateralism Iftikhar H. Malik

Sri Lanka-Japan Relations G. Wijayasiri

Nepal-Japan Relations: Traditional Ties and Modern Development Aid Dipak Gyawali

Japan and South Asia: Where To From Here? Purnendra Jain

Bibliography

Reviewers comments:

'This is a book that suits the increasing need to understand better the ever
deepening ties between South Asia and Japan, not in terms of Sanskrit literature

and Buddhist studies, but in terms of economic, technological and strategic
equations'.
Takashi Inoguchi
Professor of International Relations
Senior Vice-Rector
United Nations University

'This book is a "first" in several ways: the first comprehensive discussion of
relations between Japan and the several nations of South Asia; the first
combined assessment by a group of South Asian scholars of their links with
Japan; and the first attempt to deal with regional issues as well as bilateral
ones. It is particularly pleasing to see new studies of Japan's ties with Nepal,
Sri Lanka and Pakistan, as Japan tries to redefine its relations with one of the
most dynamic yet troubled of the world's regions. Jain's edition will be an
important reference work for the future in studies of Japan's foreign
relations'.
Alan Rix
Professor of Japanese Studies
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (External Affairs)
University of Queensland

'...a pioneering book about a topic that will rise in importance in the years
ahead'.
J.A.A.Stockwin
Director, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Hideki Esho is Professor of Economics at Tokyo's Hosei University.

Dipak Gyawali is a member of the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology.

Takako Hirose is Professor of International Relations at Tokyo's Daito Bunka
University.

Purnendra Jain is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Adelaide in
Australia.

Abul Kalam is Professor of International Relations at Dhaka University.

K.V. Kesavan is Professor of East Asian Studies in the School of International
Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

Iftikhar Malik is currently a Senior Fellow at Oxford's St Antony's College.

Maureen Todhunter is a graduate student in the Department of Asian Languages and
Studies at the University of Queensland.

G. Wijayasiri is a career diplomat and is currently serving as Sri Lankan
Ambassador to Germany.