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Japan and Singapore have a common history going back one hundred and fifty years. This shared experience is both complex and contradictory and has many aspects: marriages, friendships, cultural exchanges, business relations, and mutual learning interlaced with economic competition, communal rivalry, and war. The strong bilateral relations between the two countries are likely to continue and remain vital to both countries’ economic, social and political development. This volume offers, for the first time, a multidisciplinary survey of Japan-Singapore relations. Examining a wide range of topics on prewar history, economic cooperation, cultural and social trends, and bilateral trade and diplomacy, this book will be of interest to both specialists and members of the public concerned about regional affairs.