Bangladesh, May 13 -- Japanese foreign policy is generally applauded the world over . The country today is projected as the second most diplomatically influential one after the United States. It is held in high esteem for its leadership in maintaining free trade frameworks in the contemporary world.

History bears out that in the post-World War II landscape, Japan rose from its near total devastation and became a global economic and technological powerhouse. During its US-Allied occupation period, it married the pacifist constitution and security architecture the United State imposed on it by the United States with its own high-tech industrial base, government-business cooperation infrastructure, and work culture and transitioned itself a...