Japan → Spain
This score represents Japan's relationship toward Spain. The reverse direction is calculated separately and shown alongside it.
SIX-COMPONENT MODEL
Current component scores
Component values run from −100 to +100 and are combined with the published weights.
No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.
Why this score?
The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.
Coverage gap: The reviewed official record does not establish an additional frozen bilateral security rule or collective-defence obligation.
1 documented factor produce the +25 diplomacy assessment.
Why this score?
- +25Spain and Japan establish a strategic associationActive event · 2018
The joint declaration broadened political, economic, scientific, cultural, educational and multilateral cooperation.
Coverage gap: The reviewed official record does not establish an additional baseline diplomatic institution meeting a frozen threshold.
1 documented factor produce the +15 economic assessment.
Why this score?
- +15Spain and Japan establish a strategic associationActive event · 2018
The joint declaration broadened political, economic, scientific, cultural, educational and multilateral cooperation.
Coverage gap: 2015 reporter-side trade was below the frozen threshold or unavailable, and no additional qualifying economic institution was evidenced.
3 documented factors produce the +45 alignment assessment.
Why this score?
- +15United Nations voting alignmentBaseline rule · 2015
A rolling three-year comparison of UN General Assembly votes activates the alignment threshold.
- +15Spain and Japan establish a strategic associationActive event · 2018
The joint declaration broadened political, economic, scientific, cultural, educational and multilateral cooperation.
- +15Annual methodology 1.1 recalculationAnnual recalculation · 2026
The current component replaces the 2015 quantitative threshold or time-bounded structural package with the evidence applicable in the selected year.
No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.
Why this score?
The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.
Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not establish another frozen territorial, coercion or settled-order rule.
1 documented factor produce the +10 societal assessment.
Why this score?
- +10Spain and Japan establish a strategic associationActive event · 2018
The joint declaration broadened political, economic, scientific, cultural, educational and multilateral cooperation.
Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not establish a bilateral national-scale people-to-people exchange meeting the frozen societal threshold.
+2 in 2015 → +15 in 2026
The change is generated from sourced events and frozen scoring rules, not retrospective editorial adjustment.
0 points
Japan → Spain and Spain → Japan remain independent assessments.
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Events affecting the current score
Spain and Japan establish a strategic association
The joint declaration broadened political, economic, scientific, cultural, educational and multilateral cooperation.
This analytical score is not an objective fact, endorsement or prediction. Confidence reflects evidence coverage, while incomplete or unavailable observations remain explicit. Differences below 5 points are treated as practical ties rather than a meaningful ranking.
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