The Japanese and the Indonesians are Asiatic, oceanic peoples, inhabiting regions north and south of the equator, who have shared a long tradition of cultural and commercial intercourse. In contemporary history they were brought even closer from March 1942, during Japan's military occupation of Indonesia. It lasted for three-and-a-half years and ended with Japan's surrender to the Allied powers…
In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight. Amongst the most-affected was the relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The existence of a new regime in Tehran led to increasingly vitriolic confrontations between these two states, often manifesting themselves in the conflicts across the region, such as tho…