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Japan–Sweden relations
Map indicating locations of Sweden and Japan

Sweden

Japan

Japan–Sweden relations are the bilateral relations of Japan and the Kingdom of Sweden. Contacts between the two countries can be traced back to the 18th century when Carl Peter Thunberg, a disciple of the botanist Carl Linnaeus, came to Japan for plant collecting and researching. This made him the first Swedish national to visit Japan. [1]

The formal diplomatic relations of Japan and Sweden was established by the signing of Swedish-Japanese Treaty in 1868, [2] which was also the first treaty the Meiji Government made with a foreign state. [3]: 2  During the first decade of the 20th century, the two countries started opening legations in Tokyo and Stockholm, then promoted to embassies in 1957. [1]

Japan is Sweden's second largest trading partner in Asia, [4] and some Swedish policies on welfare, population ageing and international affairs like peacekeeping and official development assistance have been taken concern, or even example of, by Japan. [5] The bilateral relations are also strengthened through state visits, royal visits, cultural or academic exchanges from both side. [1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Japan-Sweden Relations (Overview)". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. 17 November 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  2. ^ ă‚čă‚Šă‚§ăƒŒăƒ‡ăƒłćŸșç€Žăƒ‡ăƒŒă‚ż. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Japanese). 17 November 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  3. ^ Ingemar Ottosson, Trade under protest: Sweden, Japan and the East Asian crisis in the 1930s (pdf), Lund University, retrieved 29 January 2015
  4. ^ "Japan". Regeringskansliet (in Swedish). 23 January 2015. Archived from the original on 31 January 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  5. ^ ć‰æ­ŠäżĄćœŠ (2000). æ—„æœŹăƒ»ćŒ—æŹ§æ”żæȻ閹係たćČ的汕開 [A Political Dialogue between Japan and the Nordic Countries: Japanese Views] (PDF). ćœ°ćŸŸæ”żç­–ç ”ç©¶ (in Japanese). 珏3ć·: 31–33, 38–40. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2014-05-18. Retrieved 2015-01-31.