Japan Builds On ASEAN’s Infrastructure Ambitions – Analysis

By Souknilanh Keola

Japan was ASEAN’s largest provider of financial and technical resources until the 2000s. Japan’s overseas development aid (ODA) through loans and grants to ASEAN member states goes back to 1969, two years after ASEAN was formed.

Japan’s annual net ODA, most of which isdirected towards Asian...