Situations in Pacific island countries have been changing in recent years, due to increasing Pacific voices in the international society, growing China’s influence, and enhanced engagements by United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Under such circumstances, Japan is expected to clarify consistency between Japan’s “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision” and Pacific island countries’ “Blue Pacific Identity” through careful dialogues and practices to Pacific island countries, evolve current donor-recipient relationships with them into strategic partnerships for tackling common issues, and take a role for realizing a rules-based order and prosperity in the Pacific islands region.

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