His Excellency Dr Makio Miyagawa, ambassador of Japan to Malaysia comes on the Breakfast Grille to talk about building on the already steady relationship between the two countries.

He also talks about how to grow trade between Malaysia and Japan, how Abenomics has been the game changer for many, and Japan's ambitious 20 million tourist target leading up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. He also discusses Japan's perceived soft power push, which included its Cool Japan programme, and the difficulties in implementing structural reform in the land of the rising sun.

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