An overlooked actor? Japan's role in South East Asia Asia Matters Podcast

This episode focuses on Japan’s role in Asia, and in particular its somewhat overlooked relations with South East Asia.While there is plenty of coverage of China’s increasing economic and diplomatic clout in the region, Japan — still, of course, the world’s third largest economy — has for decades been a major investor in the region. Not only that, it has also built strong diplomatic ties with southeast Asian nations and has recently been co-operating more closely on defence issues too, m...