ABSTRACT
State-level organs are inevitably closely affected by the central government’s official foreign policies. Hence, policies which reflect a growing unease about China’s economic development and its growing military ‘hard’ power are likely to impinge upon state-level organs which deal in cultural exchanges or other exchanges with China. The rapidly dwindling provision of ODA (overseas development assistance) to Chinese projects is likely to affect negatively the activities of such state-level agents of Japan’s soft power as JICA and the Japan Foundation.
