Foreign Relations History

Foreign Relations History

Japan : Diplomatic and Commercial Relations with Iran

Document Type : Scientific - research article

Authors
Nobuak i Kondu 1
Majidi Muttalebi Shabestar 2
1 Professor of Iranian Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2 Former Deputy Director General for Economic Cooperation of the Department of State
Abstract
 
Although the time of the beginning of diplomatic ties with Japan is not certain, it seems that they began in 1873 when Naser-Aldin Shāh Qajar met a Japanese official in his first trip to Europe. Never the less, there is no statistical record on the commercial ties of the two countries before 1920.Iran sent its first delegation to Japan in 1922 and Japan also sent a delegation to Iran to investigate its socio-economic conditions. It August 1929, Japan started the activities of its diplomatic delegation in Tehran and the diplomatic delegation of Iran began its activities in Tokyo in 1930.At the beginning of the second world war, Iran cut its diplomatic relations with Japan in April 3 1942, and the Japanese embassy in Tehran was closed. During the next years, there was no diplomatic relation between Iran and Japan. However, two years after the end of the war, trade between Iran and Japan began again.In February 1979, the Japanese government recognized the new Iranian regime. The war between Iran and Iraq which began in September 1980, worried Japan because Japan had commercial relations with both Iran and Iraq, therefore, Japan declared its neutrality in this war.
Keywords
Iran
Japan
Political relations
Commercial relations
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  • Receive Date 10 May 2010
  • Revise Date 17 April 2019
  • Accept Date 20 August 2010