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During the half century from the 1950s to the year 2000, Japan emerged as a major international aid donor. In 1989 it became the largest bilateral air donor in the world. How did Japan emerge as a top education aid donor?What external and internal pressures shaped the development of aid policies?What Japanese interests were served?How has the Japanese government exercised a global leadership of education aid policies?This study addresses these questions by tracking the evolution of education aid policies as they have been revealed by subgovernments as specialized decisionmaking units within a government.




