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In power since September 2009, Premier Yukio Hatoyama and the DPJ have not made African policy a high priority, but have said that they will keep the previous government’s pledge to once again double aid to Africa. Aid agency JICA remains the largest single donor body in the world, but prefers a subdued style rather than throwing its weight around.

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  • Vol 5 No 3
  •  January 2012

Aggressive passivity

The government is tied in knots, but that has not stopped the armed forces from taking a more active role in international peacekeeping missions

  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Plant a seed

Twenty-five years after its foundation in response to devastating Ethiopian famines, the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA), a Japanese-funded non-governmental organisation, is looking beyond crop yields to the challenges that small farmers face in process...

  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Tsukasa Kawada

Ambassador to Algeria, Japan

  • Vol 4 No 12
  •  October 2011

Yoshihiko Noda

Prime Minister, Japan

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Harbour of resentment

A decision by the Namibian state-owned port operator to pre-award an estimated US$285 million contract for the Walvis Bay harbour expansion to the China Harbour Engineering Company ahead of 17 other local and international companies has ruffled feathers, ...

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Koichiro Gemba

Foreign Minister, Japan

  • Vol 4 No 9
  •  July 2011

Sumio Kusaka

Director General for African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  • Vol 4 No 7
  •  May 2011

From Dakar to Durban

Tokyo has a global policy agenda and it sees Africa, with more than 50 countries and UN votes, as a valuable ally

  • Vol 4 No 6
  •  April 2011

Aftershocks

As the world's third-largest economy grapples with disaster, economies around the globe brace for aftershocks

  • Vol 4 No 6
  •  April 2011

Pitchers required

The World Bank’s African team dispatched a delegation to Tokyo in mid-March to boost its Japanese personnel, as part of Bank President Robert Zoellick’s ongoing reform of the institution. Some 80 economists and technical specialists are vying for an a...

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