Category: JICA contributions

JICA’s Sadako Ogata Peace and Development Institute publishes working papers on some of the results of research it is currently undertaking, with the aim of stimulating active discussion. Working Paper No. 228, “Perceived Home and Host Country Institutional Environment Pressures by Bilateral Development Cooperation Agency’s Constituents,” a working paper No. 228, “Perceived Home and Host…

The Sadako Ogata Institute for Peace and Development Studies (JICA Ogata Institute) has launched the JICA Ogata Institute Report “Human Security Today” as a flagship report to be published regularly. This report analyzes and researches the concept of human security and its practice from a variety of perspectives, and aims to communicate to the world…

Ms. Yukako Nagamura, researcher at JICA’s Ogata Research Institute, served as moderator. On March 10, 2022, JICA Sadako Ogata Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute) co-hosted the online course “Migration History and Multicultural Understanding Online Course – Understanding ‘Others’ from History” with JICA Yokohama Migration Museum. The lecture was part of…

Ms. Yukako Nagamura, researcher at JICA’s Ogata Research Institute, served as moderator. On February 21, 2022, JICA Sadako Ogata Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute) co-hosted an online course on “Migration History and Multicultural Understanding: Understanding ‘Others’ from History” with JICA Yokohama Museum of Overseas Migration. The lecture was part of…

Japan has been providing technical cooperation on environmental issues in many developing countries, but it was in Thailand that Japan started its cooperation in earnest, as the country’s rapid urbanization and industrialization from the 1960s brought serious environmental problems in exchange for economic development. At the time, however, Thailand lacked all the elements necessary to…

On May 8, the new Palau International Airport Terminal, constructed through the “Palau International Airport Terminal Expansion and Operation Project” (Overseas Investment and Loan), was fully opened at the Palau International Airport in Koror City, Republic of Palau. The opening ceremony was held in the presence of Palauan President Surangel S. Whipps and Japanese Foreign…

Urbanization is progressing rapidly in developing countries. Funding is a major challenge, as the development of public transportation infrastructure, an important part of urban planning, is enormously costly. We interviewed Tomoyoshi Suzuki, a researcher at JICA’s Sadako Ogata Institute for Peace and Development Studies (JICA Ogata Institute), who is seeking a solution to this problem,…

Ms. Yukako Nagamura, researcher at JICA’s Ogata Research Institute, served as moderator. On February 16, 2022, JICA Sadako Ogata Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute) co-hosted an online course on “Migration History and Multicultural Understanding: Understanding ‘Others’ from History” with JICA Yokohama Museum of Overseas Migration. The lecture was part of…

On February 14, 2022, Akio Takahara, Director of JICA’s Sadako Ogata Institute for Peace and Development Studies (JICA Ogata Institute), participated in HAPIC2022, an online event organized by the Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation (JANIC), a networking organization for Japanese NGOs for international cooperation. HAPIC is a conference that considers solutions to global social…

Sadako Ogata Memorial Gallery,” which introduces Ogata’s personal history and other information On March 28, 2022, JICA Sadako Ogata Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Institute) opened the “Sadako Ogata Memorial Gallery” on the first floor of JICA’s Ichigaya Building. JICA has human security as one of its missions, dating back to when Sadako…