Japan's Aid Policy Towards Myanmar

As a donor couuntry, Japan treated Myanmar as an old friendly nation in the South East Asian region. She could realize that it could balance the United States and China if Myamnar could be controlled. There are many maritime routes near Myanmar for shipment from and to Japan.So Japan had given many kinds of aids to Myanmar such as loans, grants and technical assistances. But Japan's policy towards Myanmar may be different from her ODA (Official Development Assistance) Charter. According to the Charter, ODA recipient countries must be democratic and must respect human rights.Beside the spillover effect of the Japanese rich economy requires technology transfer to other countries. Regarding this research, some questions have to be raised: how did Myanmar contribute to the development of Myanmar? To what extent did international pressure influence the Japanese aid policy toward Myanmar? Why did Myanmar's political reform impact on Japan's aid policy? My research will analyze that Myanmar's government gad used Japan's assistances as the tool for national interests and national reconciliation in some extent. Similarly, Japan used its ODA as the instrument of the primary diplomatic strategy in its relations with other coumtries