Recalling the Asia policy of Nakasone and America in the 1980s

One of the filters that can be seen through its context is the U.S. presidency. Asia diplomacy in the 1980s, which Nakasone was then in the middle of as Japan's president.

The U.S. policy on Asia in the 1980s emerged in a sense where, following the normalization of U.S. relations with China and the detente with the Soviet Union in the 1970s, the Cold War also played out with the Soviet military build-up in the Pacific of Europe, ....