Reflections on 60 Years of Japanese ODA

Japan’s official development assistance program turns 60 this year, and the government is revising its ODA Charter for the first time in over a decade. In this series we observe this milestone by assessing the development of Japan’s foreign aid program from the perspective of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, a development economist, and the head of a nongovernmental organization that has come to play a central role in linking Japanese foreign aid with the people it is intended to help.