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Japan's Official Development Aid: A New Trend in Economic-Security Linkage's Details
Theme Japan's Official Development Aid: A New Trend in Economic-Security Linkage
Presenter Jung, Heon-Joo (鄭憲周) Professor of Public Administration, Yonsei University
Time May 24, 2022 (Tuesday) 12:30-14:00
Venue Zoom Webinar
No. 265
Discussion
May 24 2022, the 265th Japan Specialist Seminar was held via online. With approximately 20 participants, Professor Jung, Heon Joo from the Department of Public Administration in Yonsei University gave a presentation titled as “Japan's Official Development Aid: A New Trend in Economic-Security Linkage”. The below is the summary.

Professor Jung first explained the concept of ODA (Official Development Assistance) and the history of Japanese ODA. In the cold-war era, Japan. who pursued a development strategy centered the political and economic profits transferred its policy. The new policy welcomes post-cold war features of fulfilling basic human desires ; concentrating on climate change, terrorism prevention and the peace construction.
However, since 2010 Japanese ODA has shown a phase of becoming deviant from the global standard of international aid. Professor Jung exemplified such a shift in the Japanese policy with the domestic factor of the governance of economic- benefit assistance and the global factor of the rising role of China.
A Q/A followed after the lecture. There was a question regarding the application of international cause. Specifically, it was about how Japan as a developed country began to utilize ODA with the shifting of the post-war system. after Japan completed giving compensation aid to other Asian countries post 1945, especially from the Abe administration in 2012. Professor Jung agreed with such a logic and commented critically on how Japan is still the actual beneficiary. It is because even though the Japanese government gave assistants to others, those are still Japanese corporations winning contracts.
There were also discussions about the ideal way of assistance, the model examples of beneficiaries (nations), the concept of Economy-Security, the change in Japanese ODA strategy dealing with those who were originally the targets of Chinese assistance.
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