Japanese foreign aid: what’s in it for Japan? (Purnendra Jain, East Asia Forum)

Foreign aid is a key instrument of international engagement in Japan’s foreign policy toolkit. Although Tokyo is no longer the world’s top aid donor that it once was in the 1990s, it still was the world’s number four aid donor in 2015 with close to a US$10 billion annual budget.

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/07/21/japanese-foreign-aid-whats-in-it-for-japan/