ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the changing nature of the relationship between Japan and South Africa in the post-apartheid period. It examines Japan’s Africa policy in the context of its overall international relations as well as the relationship between foreign policy, Official Development Assistance, business interests and civil society within Japan itself; and South Africa’s changing relations with Japan through an examination of international and domestic sources of foreign policy. While Japanese foreign policy towards South Africa remains fundamentally rooted in the broader context of its Africa policy, in the case of South Africa the relationship with Japan is situated within the framework of bilateral relations and the emergent emphasis on North-South relations. The formal domestic sources of South Africa’s foreign policy towards Japan are the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Trade and Industry and the President’s Office, as well as the African National Congress itself.
