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Apart from being the largest democracy and like-minded country in East Asia, Japan is a longstanding value partner to Germany and Europe.
Even before its Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision, Japan has emerged as the leading country in the Indo-Pacific region. Cooperation with Japan has therefore become even more important in terms of sustaining peace and freedom. Germany has well recognised Japan’s leading role and seeks to deepen its cooperation and bilateral ties.
As geopolitics clearly shows, the global balance of power is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In order to face security challenges in the region, multilateral and bilateral dialogue through organisations such as ours is essential.
The role of Country Programme Japan is to achieve results by acting as a bridge for dialogue and networking between Asia and Europe. The programme promotes and focuses on the bilateral relationship between Germany and Japan.
KAS Japan initiates direct exchanges between Germany and Japan: Inter-Parliamentary Dialogue, Party to Party Dialogue between Germany’s CDU (Christian Democratic Union) and Japan’s LDP (Liberal Democratic Party), active exchanges with other political parties, as well as experts’ forums, conferences, study tours and scholarships. We actively engage in all relevant and future-defining policy fields.
Through our activities, we define common grounds between Germany and Japan and contribute to both countries’ policy discussions. Strengthening the alliance of democracies based on common principles is our core objective.
