DISPATCHES
Vol 63 No 18 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
Former premier Shinzo Abe who was assassinated at an election campaign event in July had presided over an increase in economic and diplomatic influence in Africa...
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China is also believed to have promised money during Macron's visit to Beijing early last month while Parly sought a Japanese contribution when she met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on 27 January...
At least partly in response to a United States call for greater Japanese participation in world affairs Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won parliamentary approval for an expanded overseas role for the Japan Self-Defence Forces...
Vol 55 No 3 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's state tour to Côte d'Ivoire Mozambique and Ethiopia in early January was only the third official visit by a serving Japanese Premier to take in several African countries at once: in 2001 Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori travelled to a number of countries on the continent as did Junichiro Koizumi in 2006...
Shinzo Abe's government considers Africa a more important part of Japan's economic future than its predecessor but there is also a keen awareness of the stiff competition from other Asian countries...
Vol 55 No 2 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
This month in discussions with Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced further lending from Tokyo for power plant and infrastructure development projects...
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Vol 54 No 13 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
That's why Salva Kiir went to Japan on 29 May to discuss aid with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Yokohama at the three-day Tokyo International Conference on African Development (AAC Vol 6 No 8 TICAD V - An agenda for business)...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 11 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
In response to the January 2013 attack on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to spend a chunk of Tokyo's 2014 defence budget on launching a more robust intelligence-gathering operation across seven African countries...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 10 |
- AFRICA
- ASIA
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's headline-grabbing $32 bn...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 9 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
At the Fifth Tokyo International Conference for African Development Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government pledged ¥3...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 8 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
In Yokohama Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will remain mostly on the sidelines attending bilateral meetings with 40 African delegations during the three-day conference...
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