In December 2008, the Mexican Foreign Ministry celebrated the 120th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Mexico and Japan. Within the framework of the commemoration "One hundred and twenty years of friendship between Mexico and Japan", and in order to highlight some of its most relevant aspects, issue 86 of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior deals, from different perspectives, with the relationship between these two countries in four articles by distinguished officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and academics from prestigious institutions.