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The interpretation of development in Japan’s foreign aid is strongly associated with its experience of post-war economic growth. In this chapter, Horita examines the context in which Japan’s aid has served as an intermediary of Japanese capital expansion. In contrast to the popular representations of Japanese development in its aid narrative, this chapter looks closely at some little known factors that cannot be excluded from explanations of Japan’s post-war economic performances. Paying particular attention to the increasing exploitation of labour power, seen as human-made disasters, the chapter illuminates the limitation of Japanese development model and draws attention to common problems experienced by individuals in both Japan and its aid-receiving countries.
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The People’s Republic of China was not invited to be a party to the San Francisco Peace Treaty due to the disagreement between the United Kingdom and the United States over which “China ” should be represented at the treaty conference. Söderberg (1996: 34) explains that Japan’s war reparation was not provided to the People’s Republic of China due to “the communist take-over and Japan’s alliance with the USA”.
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Source of information: http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/oda/hanashi/story/1_2.html
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Source of information: http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/japan/brief/world-banks-loans-to-japan
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According to MOFA, Japan completed its war reparations in 1976 (http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/oda/summary/1994/1.html). There are different views about the completion of Japan’s war reparations and compensations. For example, Arase (1995) states that Japan’s war reparations were completed in 1981.
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For detailed data on the capital and investment flows in the region, see Contradictions of Capitalist Industrialization in East Asia: A Critique of “Flying Geese” Theories of Development (Hart-Landsberg and Burkett 1998).
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Those eight countries are Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Ukraine and Myanmar (JICA Homepage https://www.jica.go.jp/english/our_work/types_of_assistance/tech/projects/j_center/index.html).
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Horita, A. (2019). Interpretation of Development and Representation of Disasters in Japan’s Foreign Aid Narrative. In: Bouterey, S., Marceau, L. (eds) Crisis and Disaster in Japan and New Zealand. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0244-2_7
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