Japanese
economic assistance to ASEAN(the association of Southeast Asian nations) is politically motivated as well as its commercial purpose. This article emphasizes the
political significance of Japanese economic
aid to ASEAN after World War Two during which it falls into three phases. At the first
stage from early postwar to the late of 1960s, Japan
began its plan of economic aid to ASEAN which was of much economic tendency, however, to some degree, also was of its political meaning. At the second stage between 1970s when the Fukuda doctrine was first delivered and the 1980s throughout which Japan's comprehensive national security
strategy was carried out, Japan played a more active role in its diplomacy. The political sense of its economic aid to ASEAN began to be visualized. At the last stage, from the post cold war on, Japan's economic
Assistance to ASEAN have been directly utilizing to serve its "strategy for great political power" and was considered to be obviously politically oriented.
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