Nepal-Japan Relations

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Nepal-Japan Relations (1956-2013)

A Dissertation
Submitted to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Tribhuvan University in Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
in
POLITICAL SCIENCE

By
Suresh Malla
Ph.D. Reg. No.: 29/2057
Tribhuvan University
Kathmandu, Nepal
2014
Nepal-Japan Relations (1956-2013)

A Dissertation
Submitted to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of
Tribhuvan University in Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
in
POLITICAL SCIENCE

By
SURESH MALLA
Ph.D. Reg. No.: 29/2057
Tribhuvan University
Kathmandu, Nepal
2014
Nepal-Japan Relations (1956-2013) Suresh Malla

Ph.D.
2014
Date:- 2071-10-04

To,
The Dean
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
T.U., Kirtipur, Kathmandu

Subject:- Submission of Corrected Copy of Dissertation.

Dear Sir,
I, herewith, have attached the corrected version of my dissertation on Nepal-
Japan Relation (1956-2013). The texts which have been corrected, as suggested by
internal supervisor, have been made bold. Please, accept the corrected version of my
dissertation.

Sincerely yours,

__________________

Suresh Malla
Corrections made, as directed by the internal examiner, in his report and
marked bold in dissertation
1. In point no. 1, the nature of the research work has been outlined as humanistic
cum retrospective and descriptive. As per the suggestion, it has also been
made analytical.
2. Critical appreciation of the dissertation: As advised by the internal
examiner the format of the first chapter has been made scientific and standard
order.
2.1 Introduction: (A) As advised by the internal examiner, coherence in the
contents has been established, overlapping removed; and footnotes are cited.
2.2 Statement of the problems: As advised by the internal examiner, the research
questions have been reduced to four only.
2.2 Objectives of the study: As suggested by the internal examiner, objectives
have also been reduced to three making them compatible with the statement of
problems, stated above.
2. Hypothesis (if any): As per the direction of the internal supervisor,
hypotheses have been added in the new draft.
2.4 Research methodology: As suggested by the internal examiner, has been
scientifically structured and methods, sources of data and methods of
interpretation of data are also clearly outlined.
2.5 Rationale of the study: As directed by the internal examiner, the significance
of the study has been restructured/re-written keeping in view the importance
of the study/research in the present context and also for the future researchers.
2.7 Review of literature: As directed by the internal examiner, the review of
literature in 1.7 has been erased and kept in separate Chapter II.
2.8 Limitations of the study: No comments mentioned.
2.9 Organization of the study: As directed by the internal examiner, the chapters
have been merged and coherence has been maintained.
As directed by the internal examiner, the findings have been placed before
summary and conclusions.
Chapter-II
Chapter I: As directed by the internal examiner, sub-topics have been removed from
review of literature chapter.
Chapter II: As directed by the internal examiner, some international relations
theories including realism, construction/liberalism and bilateral diplomacy have been
cited including the books and articles. As directed by the internal examiner, related
materials to Nepal-Japan have been cited.
Chapter III: As directed by the internal examiner, comments, observations and
remarks have been made in every chapter.
Chapter III: As directed by the internal examiner, changes in Nepal-Japan Political
Relations have been made in bilateral relations
As directed by the internal examiner, foundation of bilateral relations has been
elaborated.
As directed by the internal examiner, analytical approach has been adopted to explain
the information.
As directed by the internal examiner, the post-1990 Nepal-Japan relations have been
elaborated.
As directed by the internal examiner, conclusion of each chapter has been deleted.
As directed by the internal examiner, the post monarchy or post-2006 Nepal-Japan
relation have been more focused and has been critically analyzed.
Chapter IV: Nepal-Japan Economic Relations
As directed by the internal examiner, too many subtopics have been deleted or
reduced to few and critical analysis has been made.
As directed by the internal examiner, attempts have been made to maintain the
coherence in the entire text.
Chapter V: Nepal Japan Socio-cultural and Religious Relations: As directed by
the internal examiner the religious relations between the two countries have been
revised. Attempts have been made to give the impression, as outlined by internal
examiner that Japan is a secular country and religion is not the basis of relationship
between the two countries- Nepal and Japan.
As directed by the internal examiner, the subjects like introduction, youth and cultural
grants have been merged into economic relationship.
Chapter VI: As directed by the internal examiner, Nepal-Japan educational relations
have been merged into Japan socio-cultural relation chapter (pp. 119-127).
Japanese education, as directed by the internal examiner has been made separate
subheading.
Human development scholarship, as directed by the internal examiner, has been made
separate subheading to include other subheadings including Nepalese students in
Japan, grant to school construction, MEXT scholarship and Japanese languages.
Chapter VII: As directed by the internal examiner, post-2006 Nepal-Japan relations
have been clearly stated and elaborated.
As directed by the internal examiner, the overlapping has been removed from the text.
As directed by the internal supervise examiner, paragraphs have been summarized to
few paragraphs.
As directed by the internal examiner (p. 135), research findings have been placed
before summary and conclusion.
As directed by the internal examiner (p. 137), the bullets have been removed from the
contents.
As directed by the internal examiner (pp. 139-145), they are not needed so, they have
been removed.
Appendix (pp. 151-178)
As directed by the internal examiner, unnecessary and irrelevant appendices have
been removed from the text.
References
As directed by the internal examiner, references have been placed before appendices.
Footnotes have been used.
As outlined in the last three suggestions, the entire format of the dissertation has been
restructured and organized.
As outlined in the last three suggestions, literature review has been reorganized so as
to make it methodologically sound and to provide concrete results and findings.
In order to make the dissertation scientific methodologically and theoretically sound,
total format has been restructured.
Date:- 2071-12-08

To,
The Dean
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
T.U., Kirtipur, Kathmandu

Subject:- Submission of Pre-viva of the Dissertation.

Dear Sir,
I have herewith submitted the pre-viva of my dissertation entitled Nepal-
Japan Relation (1956-2013). The corrections made in the dissertation, as outlined by
the internal evaluator second time, have been highlight and made bold.

Sincerely yours,

__________________

Suresh Malla