Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 Japan's ODA 1954-2014: Changes and Continuities in a Central Instrument in Japan's Foreign Policy; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Chronological review; 1.3 Characteristics of Japan's ODA; 1.4 Examples of landmark projects; 1.5 Conclusion; 2 Japan's Engagement with Multilateral Development Banks:Do Their Professional Paths Really Cross?; 2.1 Japan's historical contribution to MDBs; 2.2 Japan and MDBs: Chronicle; 2.3 Reflection on Japan's engagement with MDBs.
Part I: Origin and Institutional Foundation of Japan's Bilateral ODA3 Origins of Japanese Aid Policy-Post-war Reconstruction, Reparations, and World Bank Projects; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Experience during the post-war era; 3.3 Priority production system: An attempt at self-help; 3.4 War reparations; 3.5 World Bank loans; 3.6 Discussion; 4 Japan's Foreign Aid: Institutional Change and Shifting Policy Directions; 4.1 Aid administration and institutional changes; 4.2 Policy changes; 4.3 Future directions; 4.4 Assessment and conclusion.
5 The Political Economy of Japan's Aid Policy Trajectory: With Particular Reference to the Changes and Continuity under the ODA Charter5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The political economy of the evolution of the ODA Charter; 5.3 The political economy of the revision in 2003; 5.4 Changes and continuity under the ODA Charter; 5.5 Opportunities and challenges; 6 The Benefits of Unification Failure: Re-examining the Evolution of Economic Cooperation in Japan; 6.1 Degree of centralization; 6.2 Literature review; 6.3 Unrealized demands of administrative unity.
6.4 Discussion: The benefits of a multi-centric system6.5 Conclusion and implications; Part II: Japan, Asia, and Africa: Adapting Aid to Changing Contexts; 7 The East Asian Miracle and Development Policy: A Twenty-Year Retrospective; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 States, markets, and the Miracle; 7.3 The debate over Asia's growth; 7.4 How durable were the policy lessons?; 7.5 The Miracle and the donors: Did anyone listen?; 7.6 Conclusions; 8 Japan, Korea, and China: Styles of ODA in East Asia; 8.1 Literature on East Asian foreign aid; 8.2 Asian versus Western donors: A look at the data.
8.3 Asian donors to non-Asian countries8.4 Explaining similarities; 8.5 Conclusions: Rivals or partners?; 9 Policies and Practices of China's Foreign Aid: A Comparison with Japan; 9.1 The differences between China's and Japan's foreign aid policies; 9.2 Similarities between Chinese and Japanese foreign aid practices; 9.3 Conclusions: Chinese international responsibility and its integration into the international development system; 10 Japan's Official Developme

Once the world's largest ODA provider, contemporary Japan seems much less visible in international development. However, this book demonstrates that Japan, with its own aid philosophy, experiences, and models of aid, has ample lessons to offer to the international community as the latter seeks new paradigms of development cooperation.