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the material that is handed on by tradition, either by word of mouth or by custom and practice' (2002: 34)

is, for Japanese, purposeful and skillful. Japan uses overseas development assistance (oda) policy to contribute to a rapid rise in Japanese's standing in East Asia as a strategy to embrace the region in a complex web of personal, governmental, and cooperate ties all united under the ubiquitous banner of economic cooperation.

Arase argues that the institutional structure of Japan's overseas development assistance (ODA) policy reflects the role of the postwar Japanese state in guiding the private sector towards national developmental goals, and, while the private sector is not passive and has greatly benefited from the government's ODA policy, ' it is the state bureaucracy that holds the balance of power' (Arase 1995: 247). Thus, according to them, Japanese foreign policy, specifically foreign economic policy, is very purposeful and skillful. The increased inflow of Japanese private and public capital has had a great effect on the region's economy, which naturally has raised Japan's profile in East Asia and has created the conditions that have led to a gradual, albeit still limited, acceptance of Japan's larger role in the region. Hatch and Yamamura put it as follows: '[the rapid rise in Japan's standing in East Asia] is the product of a deliberate, largely successful strategy to embrace the region in a complex web of personal, governmental, and cooperate ties all united under the ubiquitous banner of keizai kyoryoku, or economic cooperation' (Hatch and Yamamura 1996: 115).

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