Nothing is more important to Japan's prosperity and security than normal relations with its giant neighbor.
But in the last year, it began to tilt perceptibly toward its giant neighbor, China.
Canada, while eager to win more of the U.S. market, fears being overwhelmed by its giant neighbor.
Two more victories like this and they could even exorcise some of the old conspiracy theories about their giant neighbor to the south.
Japan, in turn, does not want to offend its giant neighbor, though it also wants to help maintain stability in the area.
The church added a fourth floor and a bell cote but still fell 106 stories shy of its giant neighbors to the north.
At the time, only Canada, thanks to its giant neighbor, lived in anything like the world he envisaged; today we all do.
The sentiment, he said, could help Alaska in its quest to forge ties with its giant neighbor to the west.
Put bluntly, Burma would have risked becoming an economic colony of its giant neighbour.
Nepal is a landlocked kingdom of 23 million people between two giant neighbors, China and India.