The study will go on to show that the end 2 Chapter 1 Setting the Stage: India and Japan in History of the Cold War which coincided with the promulgation of India’s “Look East” policy and the nuclear tests conducted by India in 1998 proved to be the two prominent turning points in the development of relations. [...] Of these, perhaps the most noteworthy one was the “rise of China” beginning from the 1990s and Asia and the world as a whole facing the question of how to deal with the sprouting of new regional power centres in China and India, which too had arrived on the world stage as a nuclear power. [...] Japan’s wartime Prime Minister Tojo referred to India in his speech to the Japanese Diet in 1942 after the defeat of Singapore: This is the best opportunity for India to rid itself of the despotic policy of oppression by the British and participate in building the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. [...] The foundation of Japanese post-war foreign policy was laid within the paradigm of the “Yoshida Doctrine”.25 The San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed between the Allied Powers led by the United States and Japan at the Peace Conference held in 1951 bringing an official end to the War. [...] In the aftermath of the conference and signing of the treaty, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East was set up and became the platform for another well recognised, documented and accepted symbol of India-Japan friendship.
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