Number 1 December 2021

The Role of Myanmar in India's Look East Policy Thi Thi Soe San Former Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Mandalay, Mandalay, Myanmar. E-mail: wwttss@gmail.com Abstract India has pursued the "Look East" policy to cultivate extensive economic and strategic relations with East and Southeast Asian nations, address its security concerns, and bolster its standing as a regional power. Myanmar is the only land bridge between India and the Southeast Asia countries, and that is why Myanmar's geopolitical location is of crucial importance for India. Balancing China's economic and security interests in Myanmar, India pursued "constructive engagement" to [...]

India-Japan Partnership and Northeast India Rajaram Panda Currently, Professor Rajaram Panda is Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi. Earlier, he was Senior Fellow at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, ICCR (Ministry of External Affairs) Chair Professor at Reitaku University, Japan, and Lok Sabha Research Fellow, Parliament of India. E-mail: rajaram.panda@gmail.com Abstract India-Japan partnership has moved to a new level committing development of the long-neglected region of India’s northeast. After the Narendra Damodardas Modi government launched its Act East Policy, India [...]

US’s Response to ‘Rise of China’: Assessing India and Japan’s Security Challenges and Dilemmas Shamshad A. Khan Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus, UAE. Visiting Associate Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. E-mail: shamshad@dubai.bits-pilani.ac.in Abstract America’s strategic response to the rise of China and the perceived security challenges it poses to the West-led liberal international order are mainly based on China’s projected economic strength. A group of observers have taken China’s economic strength into account to predict its future behaviour. It is true that China had surpassed Japan as [...]

BOSOZOKU- Violent Speed Tribes in Japan Ahmad Shadaan PhD Researcher, Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, India. E-mail: ahmadshadaan@yahoo.in Abstract This article explores one of the post-war Japanese subcultures known as Bosozoku, who were biker gangs and groups defying state, police, rules and regulations through speed, noise, violence and symbols during the 1970s and 1980s. Bosozoku was a youth subculture that emerged due to discontentment against the post-war establishment in Japan with capitalism and westernisation from the deprived youth who eulogised native Japanese culture and the emperor’s authority. This article briefly explores specific [...]

A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of ‘Japonisme’ in South Asia in the Late Nineteenth Century: New Aspects of Thought on the Relations between Japan and South Asia Yuki Meno Professor, Faculty of Physical Education, Kokushikan University, 7-3-1, Nagayama, Tama, Tokyo, Japan, (International Affairs Centre). E-mail: meno@kokushikan.ac.jp Abstract Japonisme, which is defined as a unique cultural phenomenon and fashion from the 1860s to the 1910s, is the technical term for “having a liking for many Japanesque items, patterns andpaintings”. This French word and concept have been studied for several years only in Western collections and in cities like Paris, [...]

Sakit at Pasakit: The Epidemics amid the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines, 1942 – 1945 Roman R. Sarmiento Jr II Interdisciplinary Studies Department, Far Eastern University, Manila. rsarmiento@feu.edu.ph Abstract Amidst the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines, where human atrocities took place, the Filipinos were not spared from epidemics and this condition added to the hardships and sufferings of the Filipinos. The Japanese period is always stereotyped in the Philippine history as the most violent colonisers, the risk and danger always come with the human factor, but we must also consider that risk and danger are not isolated on human [...]

Bangladesh’s Learning from Corporate Governance in Japan Shiblee Noman* Sheikh Rashid Bin Islam** * Shiblee Noman is a Lecturer at the Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka. E-mail: shibleenoman.djs@du.ac.bd ** Sheikh Rashid Bin Islam is a Research Intern at the Institute of Informatics and Development (IID). E-mail: sheikhrashidbinislam@gmail.com Abstract This paper attempts to investigate the practice of corporate governance in Japan since it has largely contributed to the country’s financial management. That, in turn, led to the unprecedented economic boom of Japan. The practice and objective of corporate governance have got a different momentum in Japan despite its [...]

Japan-Bangladesh Relations: Celebrating the Fifty Years of their Ode to Joy Lopamudra Ghosh Undergraduate student (Fifth Semester) BA History Honours; Founder and President of the World Forum for Welfare Geopolitics (WFWG); Distinguished Indian Delegate representing India in the World Youth Parliament for Water (WYPW); HundrED Youth Ambassador representing India at HundrED, Helsinki, Finland; TIP Peace Ambassador of the Year 2021; TIP Human Rights Ambassador of the Year 2021; and Sponsorship Coordinator of Step. E-mail:lopamudraghosh42@gmail.com Abstract Remarkably, Japan and Bangladesh have always maintained excellent and productive relations during the past three decades despite changes in the regime in both countries. [...]

Determinants of Cultural Diversity Management in Japan: Case Studies of Hospitality Industry Ying Zhu Professor, Australian Centre for Asian Business, University of South Australia, 33-44 NorthTerrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia. Email: ying.zhu@unisa.edu.au (corresponding author) Takamichi Mito Professor, the Graduate School of Law and Politics, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. Email:mito@kwansai.ac.jp Abstract Before the Covid-19 started in 2020, increasing international tourists were visiting Japan in recent years, and the hospitality industry has become a significant economic contributor to the national economy. Employing more non-Japanese employees has been a critical human resource (HR) strategy to cope with the increasing demands of foreign [...]

Emphasising Selected Macroeconomic Indicators to Revive Japanese Economic Growth from Post-COVID-19 Shock Nashia Zaman Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. E-mail: nashiazaman@du.ac.bd Abstract For its unique characteristics of the continuous revitalisation of its economy, Japan is widely known around the globe. Japan made significant contributions to the world developmental agenda in the post-World War II era. Covid-19 imposed both demand and supply shocks worldwide. Japan is not an exception. Using the Autoregressive distributed lag model for the time series data on Japan, the impact of some selected macroeconomic variables on the annual growth of gross [...]