Collaboration or Conflict? Foreign Aid and U.S.-Japan Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7948015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert M Orr (Temple University, Japan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 476 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2759671 |
| OpenAlex | W2312634588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
THE JANUARY 1989 announcement that Japan's ODA (Official I Development Assistance) disbursements would probably supersede U. S. foreign aid totals had been expected for at least two years. Ever since 1985, when Japan's aid doubling plans (begun in 1977) were boosted by the dramatic appreciation of the yen it was inevitable that the day would come when Japanese foreign aid superseded that of U.S. foreign aid, especially as the U.S. aid program was facing severe budget limitations. Japan has traveled a long road in a short time. Within days of the government's announcement that Japan would be the largest donor, Japanese television was reminding viewers that only twenty-five years ago the Shinkansen (bullet train) had been built just prior to the Tokyo Olympics as a World Bank project. The television programs also mentioned thatJapan was the second largest recipient, after India, of World Bank assistance at that time. In fact in 1990 Japan will finally be taken off the World Bank's borrower list by paying back its final installment. In other words in twentyfive yearsJapan had gone from being one of the largest receivers of foreign aid to becoming the largest donor of foreign aid. This change from recipient to the world's largest donor of foreign aid has also been mirrored in the overall U.S. -Japan relationship. Whereas twenty-five years ago Japan had a net trade deficit with the United States, today it enjoys an approximate $50 billion surplus. In 1964Japan's Self-Defense forces had a minor regional role in the Pacific but in 1988 Japan's defense budget appeared to be the third largest in the world after that of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In part, Japan's rapid development is of course a direct result of America's calculated foreign policy following World War II. One of the underlying tenets of that policy was to create conditions for the promotion of economic development and democracy and by doing so to prevent, or at least minimize, the advance of Soviet-sponsored communism. Now
Foreign policy · Foreign relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2001 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |