Japan’s Official Development Assistance Charter to Development Cooperation Charter
Keywords:
Japan’s Official Development Assistance Charter, human security, proactive contribution to peace policyAbstract
Japan’s Official Development Assistance Charter is both a guideline and a restriction in implementing foreign policies which related to identity of peace-loving-nation. Those principles include non-involvement with military purposes and aggravation of international conflicts covering monitoring the imports – exports armament and military budgets of aid recipient countries.
This paper focuses on key factors springing Japan’s Official Development Assistance charters in 2000s to 2010s. Considering that Japan tries to maintain their roles as norms entrepreneurs of the Human Security concept among international community. However, Japan is being challenged by China’s economic and military rise which drastically affects international order and regional security. Japan needs to revise foreign policy guidelines including Official Development Assistance Charter to maintain national interest and regional security under principles of anti-military.
It can be concluded that international and domestic factors viz international norms and Japan’s national interests varying towards world issues and circumstances, and leader’s perception on threats largely influence changes in Japan’s Official Development Assistance charters.
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