ABSTRACT
Japanese-Soviet relations have gone through a deep chill, as the foreign ministers of the two countries admitted when they met in February 1984 during the funeral of the late Secretary General Yuri Andropov. In spite of the fact that the Soviet Union is a part of Asia and that a substantial and growing percentage of its population is Asian, it has a very uneasy political presence in Asia. Although the Soviet Union is an important trading partner of India, there seems to be a diminishing market for Soviet economic assistance, because India is looking for the kind of technology that only the West can offer and for more capital which is in short supply in the Soviet Union. A turnkey project of a Soviet-financed, quarter-billion-dollar cement plant in the Philippines with an annual production capacity of one million metric tons has been announced.
