Japan's Foreign Aid Research Articles

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Malcolm Waters, Globalization. London and New York:Alan Pred and Michael John Watts, Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent.Jeff Haynes, Religion in Third World Politics.Raoul Granqvist (ed.), Culture in Africa: An Appeal for Pluralism.D. Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer and David Brokensha (eds), The Cultural Dimension of Development: Indigenous Knowledge Systems.Judith Randel and Tony German (eds), The Reality of Aid 95: An Independent Review of International Aid.Maurice J. Williams and Parti L. Pretesch, Sustaining the Earth: Role of Multilateral Development Institutions.Joan M Nelson and Stephanie J. Eglinton, Global Goals, Contentious Means: Issues of Multiple Conditionality.Alan Rix, Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge: Policy Reform and Aid Leadership.R. Vos, Debt and Adjustment in the World Economy. Structural Asymmetries in North‐South Interactions.W. F. M. de Vries, G. P. den Bakker, M. B. G. Gircour, S. J. Keuning and A. Lenson (eds), The Value Added of National Accounting: Commemorating 50 Years of National Accounts in the Netherlands.Michael Cranna (ed.), The True Cost of Conflict.Raymond W. Copson, Africa's Wars and Prospects for Peace.Sharif Harir and Terje Tvedt (eds), Short‐Cut to Decay: The Case of the Sudan.John Walton and David Seddon, Free Markets and Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment.Peter Gibbon (ed.), Social Change and Economic Reform in Africa.Amitava Mukherjee, Structural Adjustment Programme and Food Security—Hunger and Poverty in India.Tony KiUick (ed.), The Flexible Economy: Causes and Consequences of the Adaptability of National Economies.Howard Stein (ed.), Asian Industrialization and Africa: Studies in Policy Alternatives to Structural Adjustment.Jan Peter Wogart, Aasha Kapur Mehta and Arun Mehta, Technology and Competitiveness: The Case of Brazilian and Indian Machine Tools.Nicholas Maddock and Frank A. Wilson (eds), Project Design for Agricultural Development.John D. MacArthur and John Weiss (eds), Agriculture, Projects and Development. Papers in Honour of David Edwards.Alan Gilpin, Environmental Impact Assessment. Cutting Edge for the Twenty‐First Century.Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz (eds), Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice.Gita Sen and Rachel C. Snow, Power and Decision: The Social Control of Reproduction.Isabella Bakker (ed.), The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy.Parvin Paidar, Women and the Political Process in Twentieth‐Century Iran.Sankar Kumar Bhaumik, Tenancy Relations and Agrarian Development: A Study of West Bengal.Pauline E. Peters, Dividing the Commons: Politics, Policy, and Culture in Botswana.Susan Eva Eckstein, Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro.Olga Nieuwenhuys, Children's Lifeworlds: Gender, Welfare and Labour in the Developing World.Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller, The Age of Migration.W. R. Böhning and L.‐L. Schloeter‐Paredes (eds), Aid in Place of Migration?Werner Sengenberger and Duncan Campbell (eds), International Labour Standards and Economic Interdependence: Essays in Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the International Labour Organisation and the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Philadelphia.Francis T. Seow, To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison.Christopher Tremewan, The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore.John Foran, Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution.

Book reviews

• General Harry Irwin. Communicating with Asia; Understanding People and Customs. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996. xii, 185 pp. A$24.95, paper. Patrick Kilby, editor. Australia's Aid Program: Mixed Messages and Conflicting Agendas. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute and Community Aid Abroad, 1996. xxi, 316 pp. Preface, conventions, authors, tables, figures, glossary, bibliography, index. A$39.95, paper. • Northeast Asia AMPO‐Japan Asia Quarterly Review, editor. Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement. An East Gate Book. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. xxii, 210 pp. Foreword, index. US$54.95, hardcover; US$17.95, paper. Adrian Buzo and Gi‐Hyun Shin. Learning Korean: New Directions 1 and 2. Hawthorn: National Korean Studies Centre, 1994. A$25.00, paper. Craig Calhoun. Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1995. xiv, 333 pp. Preface, introduction, glossary, notes, select bibliography, index. US$37.50, hardcover. Christina Kelly Gilmartin. Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiii, 303 pp. Acknowledgments, note on romanisation, maps, photographs, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. US$40.00, hardcover; US$15.00, paper. Hosea Hirata. The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburō : Modernism in Translation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. xxv, 260 pp. Preface, bibliography, index. £33.50, hardcover. Percy R. Luney, Jr. and Kazuyuki Takahashi, editors. Japanese Constitutional Law. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1993. xv, 340 pp. Introduction, appendix, contributors, index. ¥7,400, hardcover. Marvin Marcus. Paragons of the Ordinary: The Biographical Literature of Mori Ogai. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. ix, 358 pp. Preface, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. US$45.00, hardcover. Munesuke Mita. Social Psychology of Modern Japan. Translated by Stephen Suloway. London and New York: Kegan Paul International Ltd., 1992. xx, 536 pp. Preface, translator's preface, tables, figures, index. Npg, hardback. Alan Rix. Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge‐Policy Reform and Aid Leadership. Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. xii, 224 pp. Preface, abbreviations, bibliography, index. £45.00, hardcover. Joseph K.S. Yick. Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP‐GMD Struggle for Beiping‐Tianjin 1945–1949. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. xxv, 233 pp. Contents, maps, abbreviations, introduction, notes, bibliography. £20.50, paper. • South Asia Harry Aveling. The Laughing Swamis: Australian Sannyasin Disciples of Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Osho Rajneesh. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1994. 220 pp. Bibliography. A$19.95, paper. Sandy Gordon and Stephen Henningham, editors. India Looks East: An Emerging Power and its Asia‐Pacific Neighbours. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. III. Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1995. 280 pp. Abstract, tables, figures, acronyms, abbreviations, contributors, bibliography. A$24.00, paper. Andrew J. Major. Return to Empire: Punjab Under the Sikhs and the British in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1996. xii, 249 pp. List of abbreviations, bibliography, index. A$30.00, hardcover. David West Rudner. Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1994. xxi, 341pp. £40.00, hardcover. • Southeast Asia John D. Leary. Violence and the Dream People: The Orang Asli in the Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960. Monographs in International Studies. Southeast Asia Series No. 95. Athens, OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1995. xiii, 238 pp. Glossary and abbreviations, preface, appendices, bibliography, index, maps, plates, illustrations. US$22.00, paper. Anthony Milner. Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxi, 328 pp. Preface, bibliography, index. A$75.00, hardcover. Klaus Wenk. Thai Literature, An Introduction. Bangkok: White Lotus, 1995. 121 pp. Bibliography, index. A$35.00, paper.

Japan's foreign aid: power and policy in a new era

Japan's foreign aid: power and policy in a new era

Doing Good or Doing Well? Japan's Foreign Aid Program. By Margee Ensign. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 198p. $24.50. - Japan's Foreign Aid: Power and Policy in a New Era. Edited by Bruce M. Koppel and Robert M. OrrJr., Boulder: Westview, 1993. 378p. $49.50 paper.

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Tokyo Story: Aid Sells Books

Book reviewed in this article:Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge: Policy Reform and Aid Leadership. By Alan RixYen for Development: Japanese Foreign Aid and the Politics of Burden‐Sharing. Edited by Shafiqul IslamThe OECF Research Quarterly, 1993/1 No. 76Japan's Foreign Aid: Power and Policy in a New Era. Edited by Bruce M. Koppel and Robert M. Orr, Jr. Boulder, CO

Japan's foreign aid challenge: policy reform and aid leadership

Japan's foreign aid challenge: policy reform and aid leadership

Doing good or doing well?: Japan's foreign aid program

Doing good or doing well?: Japan's foreign aid program

Japan's Foreign Aid: Power and Policy in a New Era.

This book assesses the transformation of Japan's foreign aid policies within the context of the nation's changing economic and political relations throughout Asia and beyond. Challenging much of the conventional wisdom about the country's foreign assistance, the contributors shed important new light on the evolutions and goals of aid-related policies.

Doing Good or Doing Well? Japan's Foreign Aid Program

This monograph argues that, contrary to stated claims, Japanese foreign aid is inextricably linked to Japanese business interests. It demonstrates how Japanese aid to the developing world is often tied to purchases from Japan, with potentially devastating consequences to Third World nations.

High-level manpower movement and Japan's foreign aid.

"Japan's technical assistance programs to Asian countries are summarized. Movements of high-level manpower accompanying direct foreign investments by private enterprise are also reviewed. Proposals for increased human resources development include education and training of foreigners in Japan as well as the training of Japanese aid experts and the development of networks for information exchange."

The Emergence of Japan's Foreign Aid Power.

The Emergence of Japan's Foreign Aid Power examines the forces which influence Japan's economic assistance to the developing world. Robert M. Orr discusses the lengthy decision-making process that the Japanese government requires in aid decisions, showing how widespread bureaucratic conflicts among four principal agencies have impeded the development of a concrete aid policy. He argues that these conflicts have also created a tendency for the private sector to play a large role in aid policy. Orr also examines the role played by foreign aid in the economic and political relations between the United States and Japan, and the nature and extent of U.S. influence on the foreign aid programme, exploring the historical and psychological reasons for the special role played by the U.S.

The Emergence of Japan's Foreign Aid Power

The Emergence of Japan's Foreign Aid Power

Aid Without Power

Book reviewed in this article: Western Middle Powers and Global Poverty. The Determinants of the Aid Policies of Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Edited by Olav Stokke The Emergence of Japan's Foreign Aid Power. By Robert M. Orr Jr. Development Cooperation, 1990 Report. Efforts and Policies of the Members of the Development Assistance Committee. OECD Development Assistance Committee

Japan's Official Development Assistance Program: Pressures to Expand

Research Article| April 01 1991 Japan's Official Development Assistance Program: Pressures to Expand Xiaoming Zhou Xiaoming Zhou Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1991) 31 (4): 341–350. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645388 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Xiaoming Zhou; Japan's Official Development Assistance Program: Pressures to Expand. Asian Survey 1 April 1991; 31 (4): 341–350. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2645388 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1991 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The emergence of Japan's foreign aid power

The emergence of Japan's foreign aid power

Latin America in Japan's foreign aid programme

Latin America in Japan's foreign aid programme

Japan's Foreign Aid Policy: A Capacity for Leadership?

TN 1989 Japan was set to become the largest donor of foreign aid within the OECD's (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) Development Assistance Committee (DAC). An expenditure of US$9,134 million in 1988 was a substantial achievement, sinceJapan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) was only US$2,600 million in 1979 and Japan was then regarded as ajunior player in the aid stakes. Such a change in Japan's status as an aid donor brings with it a change in international expectations ofJapan regarding its responsibilities to the international aid community, especially in terms of its donor policies, and its responsibilities to the international financial institutions and to the recipient nations themselves. Japan's aid activities have, over the years, attracted much comment. Approval from other donors is now strong' but criticism is still commonly heard, particularly with regard to the quality of aid. This paper is concerned withJapan's actions as a donor, and whetherJapan has been able to show leadership in aid policy. HasJapan taken positive initiatives in aid? Has Japan helped shape international aid policy? Is Japan already considered a leader in the foreign aid field?

The Mitsugoro Project: Japanese Aid Policy and Indonesia

A SSISTANCE TO RURAL development projects in developing counA tries had by I978 become a pillar of Japan's foreign aid policy. Historically, however, Japan's economic aid demonstrated the concern of parts of the Japanese government to expand Japanese exports, foster closer relations with Southeast Asian nations and build up the industrial and resource, rather than the agricultural, sectors of recipient economies. In the midI 96os, specific agricultural aid policies were neither well-defined nor well-integrated into aid and economic cooperation policies as a whole. Aid was not notably directed towards diversifying the sources of Japan's agricultural imports, let alone promoting the expansion and growth of developing country agriculture. Until that time, the link between Japan's agricultural aid policies and trade was extremely tenuous. The Mitsugoro maize farms established in the Central Lampung region of Southern Sumatra were among the first efforts by the Japanese government and private enterprise to develop supplies of agricultural commodities for export to Japan, but they failed as an aid project and as an attempt to satisfy Japanese policy goals. Begun in i968, the Mitsugoro scheme was backed strongly by the Indonesian government and supported financially by the Japanese authorities, who saw potential benefits therein for Japanese aid, trade, and food procurement policies. By I977, however, exports to Japan had stopped, farm production was maintained by diversifying crop plantings away from maize, and the company was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Nevertheless, the Japanese government continued to provide funds for the venture. The Mitsugoro story depicts some basic themes in Japanese aid policy and policy-making.1 The practical problems of the maize farms