TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AS INTER-CULTURAL DIALOGUE: ODA AND JAPAN’S EXPERIENCE OF “SELF-HELP” (80,00 руб.)

ТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ ДОСЬЕ Восточная Азия: возвышение КНР, сотрудничество в целях развития, партнерство с РФ ВОСТОЧНОАЗИАТСКАЯ ПАРАДИГМА МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЙ ПОМОЩИ TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AS INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE: ODA AND JAPAN’S EXPERIENCE OF “SELFHELP”* TAKAHASHI Motoki Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University 6578501, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Hyogo, Japan This paper aims to clarify uniqueness, strengths, and weaknesses of Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). <...> Western countries have been criticized of its tendency to impose their own values through provision of ODA, ignoring differences in cultural contexts and failing to build interactive relationship. <...> The origin of this tendency can be found in fundamental shortcoming of the Western intellectual approach, which Habermas critically described as monologue. <...> Japan’s ODA appears to be an alternative since the country has been emphasizing respect for recipient countries’ own initiative and heralded the idea of “Support for Self-help”. <...> Yet, Japan’s ODA is not rooted in a deep understanding of cultural aspects of development, which would enable the donor country to have interactive dialogue with recipient countries. <...> Japan’s unique approach reflects historical relations with Asian recipient countries in which Japan has shared interests with others. <...> Japan’s ODA is not value-based as Western donors but interest-based, and the country has likewise lacked imagination of differences in cultural contexts. <...> It is recommended that recipient countries themselves express their own cultural uniqueness so that development cooperation could be a process of creative inter-cultural dialogue. <...> Key words: culture, developing countries, Official Development Assistance, Support for Self-help, monologue and dialogue. * Philosophical concept of this paper is based upon my previous paper “From Monologue to Dialogue: Building the Public Sphere” (in Japanese). <...> The original English version of this present paper was presented at International Forum on International Development Cooperation in the Field of Culture (Theme: Expanding International Development Cooperation in the Field of Culture for Sustainable Development) hosted by Korean National Commission for UNESCO on October 29, 2014. <...> Also, I hereby express a deepest gratitude to Ms. IRITANI <...>