Akihiko Tanaka: Trump Has Come to Recognise the Importance of the US-Japan Alliance System

... specific political changes in Africa will be necessary for Japanese investments to become more robust and yield better results? Japan attaches increasing importance to its relations with Africa. The relation-building process goes back to 1993 when Japan and African nations agreed to hold a big international conference, the Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD). After that, the conference was held every five years and, after 2014, we decided to meet more frequently, every three years ...