Look East Policy: values and success

India's "Look East" Policy, which was initiated in 1991, marked a strategic shift in India’s perspective of the world. It was developed and enacted during the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and rigorously pursued by the successive governments of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh.
This is in keeping with the philosophy of the Look East policy of India finding its destiny by linking itself more and more with its Asian partners to engage the rest of the world, and that India’s future and economic interests are best served by greater integration with East and Southeast Asia.
Look East policy is an attempt to forge closer and deeper economic integration with its eastern neighbours as a part of the new realpolitik in evidence in India’s foreign policy, and the engagement with Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a part of the recognition on the part of India’s elite of the strategic and economic importance of the region to the country’s national interests.
India Look East policy is not merely an external economic policy; it is also a strategic shift in India’s vision of the world and India’s place in the evolving global economy.
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The “Look East” policy introduced by former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 1982 has been an important factor for the success of the programme to send Malaysians to study in Japan
The policy had resulted in 2,986 UM graduates furthering their studies and undergoing training in Japan to emulate Japan’s work ethics and business techniques. Under the policy, Malaysia strengthened its cooperation with Japan in the economic, industrial, technological training, academic, research and management fields.
The success of the policy prompted the Japanese government to increase the intake of Malaysian students in universities in Japan.
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What we have learned from japanese? Samurai? Harakiri?, Origami? Discipline? Respect? Perfect?, Hirarchy? Loyal? culture? Ethic? Hardworking? Honest? Trust? Clean?.......
Malaysian need to adopt japanese culture in working and discipline. May be we can start from primary schools.