ODA

The government has decided to end its 40-year official development assistance projects as the need for aid has receded with the growth of the Chinese economy.

Japan will make good use of the aid it gives developing countries to promote its "Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy," the government said in its 2017 white paper on official development assistance. The report on ODA, approved by the Cabinet on Friday, said Tokyo wants ...

Japan is undertaking a range of efforts to help developing nations fight terrorism amid rising extremism and will step up these efforts in cooperation with the international community, the government said in its annual report on foreign aid released Tuesday. The government's pledge to strengthen ...

The government should contribute to the cost of protecting aid workers involved in Tokyo-backed development projects in light of the deadly terrorist attack in Bangladesh last month that left seven Japanese dead, the Foreign Ministry says. The measure, presented Tuesday, was among proposals included in ...

The Bangladeshi government has postponed the closing bid for a large-scale project funded by Japan's official development assistance in the wake of the terrorist attack on a restaurant in Dhaka earlier this month that left 20 hostages, including seven Japanese, dead, sources said Thursday. The ...

Beijing has rebuffed a Japanese request that the Chinese government contribute financially to a greenery foundation that supports tree-planting projects in China, a source close to the matter said Saturday. Japan, which has unilaterally underwritten the projects for years as part of an aid program, ...