العلاقات الاقتصادية اليابانية – السعودية 1971-1981

Abstract

      The topic of Japanese-Saudi economic relations is of great importance, as it is one of the complementary studies that many researchers began to understand and study the issue of relations between them. The decade of the seventies of the twentieth century represents the summit of relations between Japan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as the October 1973 war is of great importance in changing Japanese foreign policy towards Arab issues, especially the Arab (Israeli) conflict, as the effect of the Arabs' use of oil as a weapon on the Japanese economy and its concerns on the security of oil supplies to it, it made it, for the first time, stand with Arab issues against the will of the United States of America, which has dominated Japanese foreign policy since its occupation In 1945, compared to Japan’s position on the Suez Crisis in 1967, its position on the October War was a turning point in its foreign policy. The rapprochement between Japan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia increased after the October War, reaching its summit in 1976, and Japan was again shocked in the second oil crisis in 1979 with the fall of the Shah of Iran, the event that affected Japanese oil supplies from Iran and its mega projects there, an event that affected positively. On its relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which stood with Japan to compensate for the shortfall in oil supplies by increasing oil exports to it.The economic aspect represented the basis of their relations, and the occupation of oil was of the utmost importance in foreign trade, as we find Japan, and since its independence in 1951, it sought to obtain oil concessions in the Arabian Gulf and was able to obtain its first concession in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia if its political relations in the Arabian Gulf were built on The basis of economic interests.