I have spent around 10 years in Germany, first as a child, and then as a diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and I consider the country my second home. Since becoming a parliamentarian in Japan, I have made it my life’s work to develop the cooperative relationship between Japan and Germany, including by serving as Secretary-General of the Japan-Germany Parliamentary Friendship League.
I would like to take this opportunity to pay my respects to Rabea Brauer and all at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung who work so hard to develop and promote friendship between our two countries, and continue to make an enormous contribution to deepening bilateral relations. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to them for offering me the great honor of contributing to this publication.
The theme of this article is “The Significance of Cooperation between Japan and Germany”; I will discuss the importance of this bilateral relationship within the international community, and the relationship’s development.
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