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Japan's Foreign and Policy to Africa: An Assessment of ten Years of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development

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Since the late 1990s, Japan has suffered substantial budgetary constraints and a public increasingly hostile towards foreign aid. These pressures have led in the past several years to significant cuts in overseas aid. Yet, Japan has steadily and consistently moved forward with its development strategy towards Africa. Despite these pressures amid a prolonged economic slump, Japan has not given up on Africa. In fact, the foreign ministry has designated 2003 as the Year of Soaring Cooperation with Africa. But more importantly, the Government of Japan organized the third in a series of international conferences on Japan's foreign aid policy to Africa, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, scheduled for the end of September 2003. Given the government's cutbacks in ODA and a divided public towards the utility of foreign aid, why is the government committed in particular to staging TICAD? A related and more general question considers the reasons for Japan's substantial interest in the long-term development of Africa. This article seeks to explain and understand these questions by examining the evolution of Japan's ODA policy towards Africa and the history of the TICAD process. Research for this paper is derived from primary sources including Japanese ODA policy documents, TICAD policy papers, and personal interviews with TICAD officials and other Japanese aid officials.
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Lehman, Howard. "Japan's Foreign and Policy to Africa: An Assessment of ten Years of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71289_index.html>

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Lehman, H. P. , 2005-03-05 "Japan's Foreign and Policy to Africa: An Assessment of ten Years of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71289_index.html

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Abstract: Since the late 1990s, Japan has suffered substantial budgetary constraints and a public increasingly hostile towards foreign aid. These pressures have led in the past several years to significant cuts in overseas aid. Yet, Japan has steadily and consistently moved forward with its development strategy towards Africa. Despite these pressures amid a prolonged economic slump, Japan has not given up on Africa. In fact, the foreign ministry has designated 2003 as the Year of Soaring Cooperation with Africa. But more importantly, the Government of Japan organized the third in a series of international conferences on Japan's foreign aid policy to Africa, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, scheduled for the end of September 2003. Given the government's cutbacks in ODA and a divided public towards the utility of foreign aid, why is the government committed in particular to staging TICAD? A related and more general question considers the reasons for Japan's substantial interest in the long-term development of Africa. This article seeks to explain and understand these questions by examining the evolution of Japan's ODA policy towards Africa and the history of the TICAD process. Research for this paper is derived from primary sources including Japanese ODA policy documents, TICAD policy papers, and personal interviews with TICAD officials and other Japanese aid officials.

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