Conclusion

Japan’s GDP was surpassed by that of China in 2010. By the end of the series of lectures on the Asian Community held at the University of Tokyo, the editor had become interested in the question of whether Japan still had strengths which attract other countries, especially the Asian countries surrounding Japan. One possible answer would be the attainment of governance that Japan has built up over the last 80 years since the end of World War II. Japan may help these other countries as an advisor to improve their governance, as shown in the Assisting Program for Indonesian National Police by Japan’s National Police Agency (Chap. The Adoption of Japan's Experience in Asia: A Case Study of the Police System of Indonesia ), and the Japan-China Working Group for the Exchange of Economic Information (Chap. Fountain of Wisdom: Japan–China Working Group for the Exchange of Economic Information ). This role could be pursued on the basis of a long-lasting relationship of exchange with these regions, as shown in Chap. Discourse, Empirics, and Perceptions on Investment and Aid: Reconsidering Chinese and Japanese Relations with the Philippines . This book also shows the possibility of a future research agenda that has a comparative perspective. Chapter The Political Uses of Japanese Pop Culture in Hong Kong suggests the possibility of using Japanese pop culture as a tool for conducting comparative studies.