1st Edition
The Rise of Asian Donors Japan's Impact on the Evolution of Emerging Donors
1. Introduction, Jin Sato 2. Domestic Functions of Economic Cooperation: Japan’s Evolution as a Donor in the 1950s, Jin Sato 3. How U.S. Aid in the 1950s Prepared Japan as a Future Donor, Toshihiro Higuchi 4. Technology Transfer and Technology Development in Post-World War II Japan Triggered by World Bank Projects, Mikiyasu Nakayama and Ryo Fujikura 5. World Bank Regional Development Projects in Japan: Two Pilot Farm Projects, Fifty Years Later, Ryo Fujikura and Mikiyasu Nakayama 6. Donors’ Impact on China: How have Major Donors Affected China’s Economic Development and Foreign Aid Policy?, Shino Watanabe 7. The Evolution of "Aid, Investment, Trade Synthesis" in China and Japan, Yasutami Shimomura and Wang Ping 8. Korea's Pathway from Recipient to Donor: How does Japan Matter?, Hisahiro Kondoh 9. Role of Japan in the Evolution of Indian Aid Policy, Hiroaski Shiga 10. Conclusion, Yasutami Shimomura
Biography
Jin Sato is Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo. He focuses on natural resource governance, foreign aid, and disaster response with a geographical emphasis on Southeast Asia and Japan. He held visiting appointments at the Agrarian Studies Program of Yale University (1998–99) and Project on Democracy and Development at Princeton University (2010–11). He holds a Masters Degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard, and a PhD in international studies from the University of Tokyo.
Yasutami Shimomura is Professor Emeritus at Hosei University, Tokyo. He has had much experience with development work, as a former staff of the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund and a former member of the Board of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. He holds an MBA from Columbia University. His publications include The Role of Governance in Asia and Aid Relationship in Asia (with Alf Jerve and Annette Hansen).
