Japan’s Economic Diplomacy in Africa: Between Strategic Priorities and Local Realities

Céline Pajon

22.12.2020

“Japan’s Economic Diplomacy in Africa: Between Strategic Priorities and Local Realities”, Notes de l’Ifri, December 2020

During his term in office (2012-2020), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought to demonstrate Japan’s high level of interest in Africa, including by pledging a total of $ 60 billion in financial support at the 2013 and 2016 Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) summits and announcing his vision for a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” (FOIP) at the TICAD-VI in Nairobi.

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