Boosting Tokyo-Seoul tiesThere is a near consensus across the contemporary East Asian strategic spectrum that Japan and South Korea must come closer in order to foster peace and development in the region. It has a much longer history of democracy than South Korea has. The Zainichi community has had very strong ties with South Korea. It is believed that contemporary South Korean politics is being increasingly influenced by the “386 generation”, the social segments born in the 1960s. Israel and the USA, to bring Japan and South Korea closer to each other.