This article has four points of contention. First, it argues that time is ripe for the Japanese model of ODA (Official Development Assistance) to work in Africa. The recent positive changes seem to be creating an enabling environment in Africa for the Japanese model of ODA—an economic-development oriented ODA that once has contributed to the dynamic development of Asia—to work, at least in some African countries and in some areas. Second, it is contended that despite recent positive changes, Africa is still faced with huge developmental challenges, and Japan is ready to support its African partners especially in agriculture, industry, human resource development and in nurturing political stability and security, while taking advantage of its strengths and traditions. Third, the changes happening in Japan, combined with those happening in Africa, are opening a new era of Afro-Nippon cooperation, which is much more broad-based and encompassing wider areas of cooperation. And fourth, it concludes by arguing that what Japan has been doing and what it intends to do in and for Africa must be taken not in the context of diplomatic rivalry between Japan and other actors but in the context of Japan’s willingness to fulfill its international responsibilities and hence to serve its broad and long-term national interests.

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日本与非洲：互动与未来前景的历史回顾

本文有四个论点。首先，它认为日本的ODA（官方发展援助）模式在非洲运作的时机已经成熟。最近的积极变化似乎正在为日本的ODA模式（一种曾经以经济发展为导向的ODA模式曾经为亚洲的蓬勃发展做出了贡献）的非洲创造了有利的环境，至少在某些非洲国家和某些地区发挥了作用。 。第二，可以说，尽管最近发生了积极的变化，但非洲仍然面临巨大的发展挑战，日本愿意在支持非洲发展的同时，在农业，工业，人力资源开发以及政治稳定与安全的发展方面为非洲伙伴提供支持。它的优势和传统。第三，日本发生的变化，再加上非洲发生的变化，正在开启非日本合作的新纪元，它的基础更加广泛，涵盖了更广泛的合作领域。第四，本文的结论是，日本的所作所为和打算在非洲境内和为非洲做的事情，绝非日本与其他行为者之间的外交对抗，而是日本愿意履行其国际责任的前提下进行。从而符合其广泛和长期的国家利益。