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Strangers No Longer

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DOI10.1177/002070200906400402
Published date01 December 2009
AuthorTsuyoshi Kawasaki
Date01 December 2009
Subject MatterCanada and Asia
Tsuyoshi Kawasaki
Strangers no longer
The identity shift in the Canada-Japan relationship
| International Journal | Autumn 2009 | 879 |
The prime ministers recognize that the bilateral partnership of trust
and friendship fostered over the years between the peoples of
Canada and Japan, founded on such shared basic values as
democracy, freedom, and promotion of the market economy
remains solid, but…still has a potential yet to be realized.1
Where has Japan gone in the Canadian psyche? Nowadays, the talk that we
hear about Asia is mostly about China. CBC news has a China bureau in
Shanghai but no correspondent stationed in Tokyo. China’s growing markets
keep grabbing the attention of Canadian businesspeople. The rise of China,
we are to ld, is welcome to Cana da because of the enormous ec onomic
Tsuyoshi Kawasaki is associate professor of political science and the director of the Asia-
Canada program at Simon Fraser University. He thanks the editors for their helpful
comments on an earlier draft.
1 Joint statement by Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada and Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, Tokyo, 19 January 2005.

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