In a few weeks’ time, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Saudi Arabia with an avowed objective of fostering the cordial relationship between the two countries. That is exactly where the relationship has always been — cordial and businesslike without cultivating strategic opportunities. The relationship between the two countries has been dominated by trade except for Japanese oil involvement in the neutral zone, which the Japanese mercantilist tendencies prevented from using as a springboard for a broader economic relationship with the Kingdom.

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