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Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA)

Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA).

  1. Japan International Cooperation Agency President Dr. Tanaka Akihiko (left) pays a courtesy call to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (right) in November last year at the Study Room of Malacañang Palace in Manila. JICA has started a different tack through proactively offering official development assistance to developing nations.

    Japan offers, not just spends ODAs

    Japan’s ODA dates back to 1954, when it joined the Colombo Plan, an organization for regional cooperation in Asia, two years before it became a member of the…