| dc.description.abstract | The main purpose of this thesis is to discuss about the foreign policy taken by Japanese government, particularly in the ODA and foreign aid disbursement to developing countries in various regions, such as Asia and Africa. The concern is the decision taken by Japan on having its foreign aid shifted towards more humanitarian issues, such as human security. This is interesting because Japan has been well-known for decades as one of the worlds economy giants whose main focus is economic development, both domestic as well as abroad. The shift to human security in Japans foreign policy, particularly its influence towards the developing countries, is a phenomenon that is worth of researching. Therefore, this thesis will attempt to answer the question: how does the shift in Japans foreign aid influence the recipient countries in terms of Human Security? The thesis is discussing on the early occurrence of human security, how Japan started to perceive it as an important issue to be paid attention to, and why Japan decided on have it included into its ODA as a strategy in its foreign policy. In order to measure such influence of policy, this thesis chose one of the elements in human security, which is health and selected six countries from Asia and Africa as part of the recipient regions of Japans ODA. From the countries selected, the influence of the foreign aid will be assessed through the improvement in health sector in each country. This thesis will also provide various data on Japans disbursement in the past few years to make it easier to learn the focus of Japans ODA. In short, there will be two focuses in this research. First, explaining the reason and the influence of the shift of Japans foreign policy to human security. Second, arguing the actual motivation behind it as well as Japans actual priority on ODA after the shift took place. | |
