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Japan-Africa Relations seeks to study the complex nature of the dynamics of power relations between Japan and Africa since the Bandung Conference in 1955, with an emphasis on the period starting from the 1970s up to the present.

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Approaches and Perspectives The Bandung Conference (1955): Ideology of Non-Alignment and Pragmatism of Afro-Asian Alliances Contextualizing Contemporary Japanese Politics and Japanese Nation-State in the ´Caricature´ and Reality of Bipolar World since the 1970s Reflecting on African Conditions in the Period of the Recent Global Reforms International Cooperation between Western Powers and Africa: A Comparative Reflection Concept of Peace and the Japanese Economic Development Model Japanese Foreign Policy Toward Africa During and After the Cold War Era: ´Pax Nipponica´ versus ´Pax Africana´ Japanese Official Economic Assistance (ODA) to Africa: Old and New Trends Japan´s Relations with Africa in the Post-Bipolarity: Reflection on The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) The Role of Education in the Japanese International Cooperation with Africa: Earlier and Recent Trends

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"This book deals with an extremely important, topical and under-researched issue, namely economic relations between Africa and Japan in general and Japanese foreign economic assistance to Africa in particular. Furthermore, this is a topic on which, to this day, very few African scholars - with the notable exception of Kweku Ampiah and Sunday Agbi - have done any serious research at all." - Guy Martin, Professor of Political Science, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC

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TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO is Professor of Political Science at Wells College in Aurora, New York, USA.

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