ABSTRACT
Chapters 7 and 8 discuss developments in Japan's official development assistance (ODA) policy making milieu since the Cabinet ODA Charter of 30 June 1992. (Although ODA is called "foreign aid" in the United States, Japan's relationship with many recipient countries differs from that of its foreign policy partner in the U.S.) Modeling Foreign Ministry power sharing domestically and internationally, these chapters highlight opportunities and likely limits to NGO involvement in policy making in Japan and in ODA-recipient countries and then adduces evidence for an emerging trend of that kind of involvement. Case studies are examined, and emerging domestic actors in the ODA policy making process are identified, as are avenues for further research.
