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Japan's largest trading partner in Africa in 1990 was South Africa, which accounted for 30% of Japan's exports to Africa and 50% of Japan's imports from the region. Because of trading sanctions imposed on South Africa by the United States and other countries, Japan emerged as South Africa's largest trading partner during the 1980s. This ...
Japan had little involvement in Africa, but the severe drought of the 1980s brought an increase in the share of development assistance for that continent. The five largest recipients of Japanese ODA in 1990 were in Asia: Indonesia (US$1.1 billion), People's Republic of China (US$832 million), Thailand (US$448.8 million), the Philippines (US$403 ...
TICAD I was held in 1993. African countries and their development partners discussed strategies for steps toward greater African prosperity. [1] TICAD was formed at a time when the international community's interest in Africa was starting to wane, and donor fatigue was setting in. [7] This conference produced the "Tokyo Declaration on African Development."
To avoid insulting Japanese trade delegations that would begin making regular visits to South Africa, Verwoerd pushed Pretoria's Group Areas Board to award Japanese the status of "honorary whites." [ 10 ] Due to inconsistencies with the apartheid, opposition party politicians and the press since the early 1960s questioned why Japanese were ...
Japan recognised Kenya soon after the latter's independence, opened the Embassy of Japan in Nairobi in 1964. Kenya's embassy in Japan was opened in 1979. [1] Nairobi now hosts one of the largest Japanese expatriate communities in Africa. There were 633 Japanese nationals in Nairobi in 2009. [1]
Some of these Japanese games, which were uncensored, even included the use of vulgar language. The Sega CD (known as the Sega Mega CD in Japan) was one of the first platforms to offer full motion video beyond the personal computer market. [9] It became trendy in the 1990s (and in the 2000s) for players to create their own role-playing video games.
The Lost Decades are a lengthy period of economic stagnation in Japan precipitated by the asset price bubble's collapse beginning in 1990. The singular term Lost Decade (失われた10年, Ushinawareta Jūnen) originally referred to the 1990s, [1] but the 2000s (Lost 20 Years, 失われた20年) [2] and the 2010s (Lost 30 Years, 失われた30年) [3] [4] [5] have been included by commentators ...
Pages in category "1990 in Africa" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. 1990 in Burkina Faso; C.