Who is Japan's closest ally?

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is an invaluable and irreplaceable partner to Japan and, indeed, our closest ally.
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Who does Japan have an alliance with?

The U.S.-Japan Alliance (日米同盟, Nichi-Bei Dōmei) is a military alliance between Japan and the United States of America, as codified in the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan, which was first signed in 1951, took effect in 1952, and was amended in 1960.
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Are Japan and US close allies?

From the late 20th century and onwards, the United States and Japan have firm and very active political, economic and military relationships. US government officials generally consider Japan to be one of its closest allies and partners.
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Which country does Japan like the most?

Japan's Favorite Countries
  • United States ~ 3,249,659 (A total of 1,176,546 people traveled to Hawaii alone.) ...
  • Italy ~ 2,593,846.
  • France ~ 2,386,000. (A 2011 Tohoku Tsunami fundraising event in Paris)
  • Hong Kong ~ 1,283,687.
  • Taiwan ~ 1,282,000.
  • Germany ~ 1,177,352.
  • Thailand ~ 1,144,709.
  • Spain ~ 1,027,283.
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Who are friends of Japan?

Association of Friends of Japan (AFJ) is a non-profit organization working to foster relations between India and Japan for more than 30 years through cultural, educational, industry-related, and sports-related activities. The organization is based out of Pune, India.
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Who are Japan's enemies?

China and Japan may not have fought militarily since the 1940s, but they've never stopped battling over the past. In the latest scuffle, protests directed at Japan's revisionist textbooks are roiling Beijing and other Chinese cities.
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Are Japan and Russia allies?

Since Japan and Russia had become allies by convenience, Japan sold back to Russia a number of former Russian ships, which Japan had captured during the Russo-Japanese War. For 1917–1991, see Japan–Soviet Union relations.
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Are Japan and UK allies?

“Japan is Britain's close security partner in Asia, with shared values and common strategic interests. This sends a clear signal about our determination to deepen bilateral defence cooperation, and the UK's commitment to the Indo Pacific region.”
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Are South Korea and Japan friends?

Japan and South Korea are neighbors, and they are both main allies of the United States in East Asia. Despite this, the relationship between the two states has greatly deteriorated in recent years, characterized by strong mutual distrust and a number of disputes.
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Are US and Japan friends?

The United States and Japan are the closest of allies. The two nations share a strong bond of friendship forged through decades of postwar cooperation.
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Who protects Japan?

The United States pledged to defend Japan, which adopted a pacifist constitution, in exchange for maintaining a large military presence in the country. There are more than eighty U.S. military facilities in Japan. More U.S. service members are permanently stationed in Japan than in any other foreign country.
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Is Japan an ally of Israel?

General. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1952, Japan and Israel have steadily developed the bilateral relationship. The growing relations are represented in frequent VIP visits between the two countries such as Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and other Ministers.
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Are Japan and China friends?

At the same time, the relationship with China is one of Japan's most important bilateral relationships, and the two countries have close economic relations, as well as people-to-people and cultural exchanges.
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Is Japan an ally of India?

The Japan-India Association was set up in 1903, and is today the oldest international friendship body in Japan. Throughout the various phases of history since contacts between India and Japan began some 1400 years ago, the two countries have never been adversaries.
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Does the US have to defend Japan?

Article 5 commits the United States to defend Japan if it is attacked by a third party. Article 6 explicitly grants the United States the right to base troops on Japanese soil, subject to a detailed "Administrative Agreement" negotiated separately.
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Why does North Korea not like Japan?

North Korea's inability or refusal to pay its debts to Japanese traders also reinforced popular Japanese disdain for North Korea. Japan–North Korea relations turned more antagonistic in the late 1980s. The two governments did not maintain diplomatic relations and had no substantive contacts.
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Who is South Korea's biggest ally?

One of them is the U.S.-China conflict. Asking South Korea whose side it is on is a very fragmentary and superficial question. South Korea and the United States are allies by blood. Meanwhile, China is the largest trading partner to South Korea.
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Is Japan in NATO?

Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea have been formal partners of NATO since the early 2010s, part of a slate of “partners across the globe,” but they are seen as an increasingly important subset of NATO's global partners. There is even an informal nickname for these countries, the Asia-Pacific Four or AP4.
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Does Japan like England?

While 54% of the respondents pre-referendum had found the UK to be attractive, the figure was 49% post-referendum. Trust, post-referendum, was examined in the survey, with only 32% of Japanese respondents saying they trusted the UK government and 33% saying they trusted British people.
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Did Britain ever fight Japan?

The British Empire waged ceaseless war against Japan between December 1941 and August 1945, in defeat and retreat at first, stabilizing in 1943 as the Allies hit back and the Japanese tide abated, and turning to the offensive in 1944.
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Is Japan ruled by British?

Japan was not formally colonized by Western powers, but was a colonizer itself. It has, however, experienced formal semicolonial situations, and modern Japan was profoundly influenced by Western colonialism in wide-ranging ways.
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Are Japan and France allies?

France and Japan have enjoyed a very robust and progressive relationship spanning centuries through various contacts in each other's countries by senior representatives, strategic efforts, and cultural exchanges.
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Why is Japan not a superpower?

Japan was formerly considered a potential superpower due to its high economic growth. However, its status as a potential superpower has eroded since the 1990s due to an aging population and economic stagnation.
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Is Japan an ally of Ukraine?

Japan's support for the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine

Japan has reflected that they are a staunch ally to Ukraine in the midst of the 2014 Crimean Crisis.
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