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Viewing cable 06TOKYO6839, LDP INTEREST IN AID TO INDIA SURPRISINGLY HIGH,

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06TOKYO6839 2006-12-04 08:51 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Tokyo
VZCZCXRO5086
RR RUEHFK RUEHKSO RUEHNAG RUEHNH
DE RUEHKO #6839/01 3380851
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 040851Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 8852
INFO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 5087
RUEHLM/AMEMBASSY COLOMBO 0627
RUEHKA/AMEMBASSY DHAKA 0647
RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD 1931
RUEHKT/AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU 0558
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 8202
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 5150
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 1185
RUEHFK/AMCONSUL FUKUOKA 9067
RUEHNAG/AMCONSUL NAGOYA 8631
RUEHNH/AMCONSUL NAHA 1553
RUEHOK/AMCONSUL OSAKA KOBE 2497
RUEHKSO/AMCONSUL SAPPORO 0104
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 TOKYO 006839 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
AID FOR AID/PPC/MENARCHIK AND AID/ANE/WARD 
PARIS FOR USOECD 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID ECON JA PGOV IN
SUBJECT: LDP INTEREST IN AID TO INDIA SURPRISINGLY HIGH, 
SAYS ACADEMIC 
 
REF: A. TOKYO 5574 
 
     B. TOKYO 6271 
 
Summary 
------- 
1.  (SBU) After a recent lecture on trends in Overseas 
Development Assistance (ODA), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 
lawmakers peppered Takushoku University President Toshio 
Watanabe with questions about how to use aid to turn India 
into a counterweight to China, Watanabe told Econoff in a 
November 28 meeting.  Watanabe said the level of interest 
caught him by surprise given ODA's limited domestic 
constituency; he attributed the change to China's continuing 
rise and increased worries about North Korea.  He also 
indicated that reform to the GOJ's ODA structure have 
"paused" pending decisions on new structures from PM Abe. 
Biographical notes on Watanabe, an advisor on ODA to the 
foreign minister, follow.  End summary. 
 
LDP Interest in ODA, India, and China 
------------------------------------- 
2.  (SBU) Members of a Liberal Democratic Party committee on 
ODA are showing surprisingly high interest in Japan and 
India's aid relationship, Takushoku University President 
Toshio Watanabe told Econoff November 28.  Watanabe, who sits 
on a committee that advises Foreign Minister Taro Aso on 
development aid affairs and ODA restructuring, lectured to 
the LDP group during the week of November 20. 
 
3.  (SBU) Japanese politicians have traditionally had little 
interest in ODA as an issue because it does not resonate with 
the average voter, according to Watanabe.  That lack of a 
domestic constituency, combined with a multi-year trend of 
declining support for ODA among the public, is why he counts 
only three LDP politicians among those who have made ODA one 
of their special interests. 
 
4.  (SBU) Watanabe stated that he was therefore surprised 
when, at the end of his 40-minute lecture, he was peppered 
with questions about Japan's aid relationship with India. 
Specifically, he said, lawmakers stated that Japan "must find 
a way to cooperate with India" and asked him how aid could be 
used in the effort to turn India into a counterweight to 
China.  Watanabe speculated that China's continued rise, 
along with recent events in North Korea, were behind the 
increased interest in relations with India.  (Comment: It is 
worth noting that Watanabe did not list India's status as the 
largest bilateral recipient of Japanese foreign aid since 
2003 -- this year consisting of about $1.3 billion in soft 
loans -- as a reason, nor has that apparently been sufficient 
for the lawmakers to show this level of interest in the past. 
 See ref A for more detail.) 
 
Pause in ODA Re-Structuring with Government Change 
--------------------------------------------- ----- 
5.  (SBU) With the regard to the aid restructuring effort 
occurring in the GOJ (ref B), Watanabe stated that the 
changes started during the Koizumi administration have 
"paused" since Shinzo Abe became prime minister, pending some 
decisions by PM Abe.  He identified internal disagreements 
over the creation of a new ODA advisory panel (primarily over 
whether the group would report to the ministerial-level 
coordinating council or sit in the Ministry of Foreign 
Affair's new International Cooperation Bureau) as the root of 
the problem.  He downplayed the importance of the 
disagreements, however, stating he believed they would be 
resolved in the near future. 
 
Biographical Notes 
------------------ 
6.  (SBU) Watanabe is President of Takushoku University and 
an academic expert on Japanese ODA.  He has participated for 
the past three to four years on a committee advising the 
foreign minister on restructuring Japanese ODA and serves as 
the committee's chairman in the foreign minister's absence. 
 
TOKYO 00006839  002 OF 002 
 
 
He described many of the current changes in Japanese ODA 
structure as initiatives he has been advocating for years. 
Open and engaging, he is originally from Yamanashi 
prefecture.  He has travelled to the United States, but 
stated that his generation (he was born in 1939) did not have 
the opportunity the current generation does to study in 
America.  He looks young for his age, dresses casually, and 
does not appear protocol conscious.  He keeps English 
language materials in his office and uses English words 
liberally, but preferred to conduct this meeting in Japanese. 
 
SCHIEFFER