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APPROVED BY: Dr. Akira Kubota Dr. W. G. Phillips 833235 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. DEDICATION To all those who will eventually, ■ ■irrespective of whatever means .they use, overthrow the racist regime in South \ Africa and Namibia. y Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ABSTRACT y v This paper provides a' comparat i ve analysis of Japan's economic and political relations with Africa during the period from 1965. to 1980. In essence, the paper 'is a study of.the relationship between Japan and South A frica, on the one hand, and Japan and Black Africa, bn the other. ♦ i By looking at Japan ' s p o litic a l and economic relations with South Africa, and comparing them to the island nation's p o litic a l and economic relations with Blac_k Africa, the question as to whether Japan i s • ap;pl yi ng the policy of sei kei bunri , the separation of economics from p o litic s , is brought into perspective. i Chapter I explores the place of sub-Saharan. Africa r in Japan's external interests and relations. It reveals thb island'nation ' s relations with Africa -through a dis­ cussion of the former's relations with the developing countries. Chapter II discusses the gross features of Japan's trade with Africa. The chapter looks at*the ■\ value of trade, and the change and continuity in the nature of Japanese imports and exports. This chapter also evaluates the relative importance of Japan's trade s i i - A Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. with Black Africa as against her trade with South Africa. The balance of trade issue between Japan and the region is alsoyexamined. The focal point of- Chapter I I I is a discussion of Japan ’ s^ investments and aid contributions' to the region. Japan's political relations with both the Black African states and S6uth Africa are analy’sed in Chapter IV. The methodology employed in this*chapter is an examination of Japan's voting behaviour at the ; United Nations General Assembly on resolutions condemning ■ and calling for sanctions against South Africa.' Japan’s voting behaviour i's compared with that of five other industrialized countries: the United States of America,' Great B ritain , France,-^~the Federal Republic of Germany, and Canada. The overall concern of Chapter V is to look at Japan's relations with ‘Africa in general, and in doing so to define and explore the relevance of the concept of sefkei bunri in Japanese-AfVican relations-. In Chapter VI the salient features of the study are summarized in a brief conclusion. Essentially, i.t- points out that Japan has -adeptly separated economic^ from 'politics in her diplomacy to sub-Saharan Africa . with only minor political costs. I J Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. t * •* * ! \ i j! ■* * ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS • - 1 * * ” • - I '' • I wish to express my special^ gratitude to 1 Dr. Akira Kubota, my principal adviser, for his guidance, support **. ■ and patience throughout my research.. I' ant^also indebted to Professor Bruce E. Burton for his guid-ance, constructive * cri^icis-m and indispensable expertise in the area of International Relations. My thanks go to Dr. David Wurfel for o rig in a lly encouraging me to undertake this research, and also for the assistance he gave me in the in itia l stages of the i research. I register deepest gratitude of a ll to Bernie and Helga Harder for their invaluable assistance and con­ tinued reassurance. I am also indebted to them for their editorial guidance. I owe, finally, a substantial debt to the members of the Jecumseh United Church, Windsor, * for their generosity, which haj contributed to this thesis. , Finally, I am particularly grateful to Mrs. Joan Reid for ‘her professional competence in typing the final manuscript. However, as on^i normally says in such i v Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. circumstances, and rightly so, I alone remain responsi • % ' for the interpretations in this study and for any mis-' * takes in fact and judgment that the reader may detect. M 3 ' / 4 t Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. INTRODUCTION % Japan's relations with Africa were, un til the mid-1960s, at best peripheral. This is attributable to, among other things, the fa c t that unlike the South East Asian countries, for example, Africa has no particular 'historical or cultural ties with Japan.- Moreover, most African countries in the 1950s were s t i l l dependent colonial territories which could not enter into any meaningful diplomatic relations with foreign countries.