ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the politico-economic factors which helped shape the kind of resource relationship that developed between the Philippines and Japan. It shows that this relationship has been changing based on the structural adjustments that both countries have been adopting. The chapter explores document the harm done to the Philippine environment as a result of this kind of resource relationship between the two countries. The reparations that Dulles had in mind were "service reparations" or labor and technical services rendered by Japanese experts and skilled workers in the claimant countries. The industrial success of Japan in copper production has a huge environmental cost, a great part of which is borne by the copper-ore producing nations like the Philippines. The most destructive iron ore mining activity took place in the 1970s, when Japanese importers financed beach sand iron ore mining along the Ilocos and Leyte coastlines.
