UID:
kobvindex_DGP164421279X
Format:
zahlr. Lit.Hinw.
ISSN:
1022-0461
Content:
Japan's involvement in sub-Saharan Africa became more than cursory in the latter half of the 1960s, when it initiated a rudimentary Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme to the region. Prior to this, the official stance on relations with the African continent since the late 19th Century heralded it as a small export market for Japanese consumer, particularly textile, goods. Africa was still regarded as a dark and distant continent. (...) This did not preclude, however, the development of an economic policy towards sub-Saharan Africa which focused on securing stable sources of mineral resources and export outlets. Japan's ODA to the region constituted the prime mechanism. (...) From the mid 1980s the volume of ODA to sub-Saharan Africa, as a share of Japan's total ODA, rose sharply. This was reflective of two features: the growth in Japan's overall ODA programme in this period, and a more dynamic Japanese stance towards Africa. Both of these, in turn, were related to a transformation in Japan's foreign policy, brought about by dramatic shifts in the international political economy. (...) For Japan, sub-Saharan Africa represented a useful recipient candidate for its energised foreign policy. Relations between Japan and the sub-continent in the 1990s have consequently deepened - what one may call a third 'African thrust' on the part of Japan. (SAJIA/DÜI; gekürzt)
In:
South African journal of international affairs, Braamfontein : SAIIA, 1993, 6(1998), 1, Seite 7-20, 1022-0461
Language:
English
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