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Japanese Investment Policy toward the Third World

In: Japan and the Third World

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  • William R. Nester

    (St John’s University)

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Japan’s foreign investment policy has been an important pillar supporting its overall policy toward the Third World. As early as the mid-1970s, Ozawa recognised that ‘overseas production is now emerging as an integral part of both Japan’s economic growth and strategy and her foreign economic policy’.1 Tokyo has actively promoted foreign investment as a means of securing or reinforcing its existing trade power over strategic Third World markets, raw materials, energy sources, infrastructure and industries. The greater the amount of Japanese investments in a particular country, the greater the potential to use those investments to influence that country’s political elite to grant even greater economic concessions, which inevitably enhances Japan’s political power to extract even more economic power.

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  • William R. Nester, 1992. "Japanese Investment Policy toward the Third World," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Japan and the Third World, chapter 3, pages 49-74, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11678-2_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11678-2_4
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