Kishore Mahbubani, a prominent Singaporean academic, has urged Japan to display greater leadership on the world stage and act as a bridge between Asia and the West, as in his view the global order has started to shift.
In the current era, the West's supremacy is waning while Asia is enjoying a resurgence, Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, claimed in a recent interview.
Japan has a crucial role to play as the global power structure readjusts and should assume greater political leadership and pursue a more assertive foreign policy, said Mahbubani, who has written prolifically on the rise of Asia.