Japan and the Asia-Latin American Connection in the Twenty-First Century

In 2003, Peter Smith and 15 Latin Americanists from Asia and the Americas published East Asia and Latin America: The Unlikely Alliance (Rowman and Littlefield). They contributed articles to this monumental work for the purpose of making clear how the two areas had coped with the global economic crisis around 2000 and, based on this experience, envisaged an ideal relationship between the two regions.