The newish government has focused more on domestic policy but has promised to honour the previous government’s pledges to Africa
When Premier Yukio Hatoyama and the Democratic Party of
Japan (DPJ) came to power in September 2009 promising to focus on domestic
issues and budget cutting, African countries feared that overseas
development assistance would be among the first targets. Hatoyama’s
speech at the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September sought to
assuage such fears, saying that ‘the new Japan will not turn its back
on such challenges.’...
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