Though India's contact with two of the predominant nations of East Asia, China and Japan, has been uniformly strengthened in the socio-economic, cultural, and political fields during the last few decades, it has received a special boost during the nervous nineties. And as we stand on the threshold of the 21st century and visualize the possible dawning of 'the Asian Century', their ties on account of increasing awareness of the intra-continental proximity are ...