@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007386,
 author = {SUPPAKARN, Pongyelar},
 issue = {159},
 journal = {GSID Discussion Paper},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {This paper investigates the roots of Japan’s Myanmar policy, namely, internal influences which include national interests, Japanese traditional political cultures and domestic politics and external influences which are Japan-US relations, burgeoning China influence in Southeast Asia and universal values of democracy and human rights Japan has followed since the end of World War II. The study argued that the engagement pattern of Japanese involvement in Myanmar over the past decades went around the mentioned internal and external implications searching for ultimate national interests and its challenge to changing politico-economic circumstances in East Asian and Southeast Asian region. ODA volumes are the essential tools of Japan in checking and balancing these relating factors. Japanese government curbed or temporarily stopped its ODA volumes to secure its longstanding economic and security ties with the US as well as its image as established democratic countries and ODA Charter protector. Its ODA means also a tool to maintain its relationship with Myanmar in the midst of China influence, if not to curb Chinese presence in the country for the time-being.},
 pages = {1--45},
 title = {The Implications of Japanese Engagement Policy towards Myanmar: 1988-Present},
 year = {2007}
}