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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. Not only since its Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision, Japan emerged as the leading country in the Indo-Pacific region. Cooperation with Japan is of growing importance to sustain peace and freedom. Germany has well recognised Japan’s leading role and seeks to deepen its cooperation and bilateral ties.
The visible geopolitical shift from the Atlantic to the Pacific theatre and the most visible security challenges in our region make multilateral and bilateral engagement through organisations like ours essential. Being a successful bridge for dialogues and networks between Asia and Europe is the role of our programme.
KAS Country Programme Japan focuses on and promotes the bilateral relationship between Germany and Japan. The core policy pillars for us are security, energy/ climate, and technology/ societal issues.
To achieve these objectives, KAS Japan initiates direct exchanges between Germany and Japan: Inter-Parliamentary Dialogue, Party to Party Dialogue between CDU (Christian Democratic Union) and the 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; having green growth, prosperity, security and resilience in mind. Through our activities, we define common grounds between Germany and Japan and contribute to both countries' policy discussions. Thus strengthening the alliance of democracies based on common principles is our core objective.
