Japan’s International Cooperation in Education

Nobuko Kayashima is Senior Vice President of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). She joined JICA after graduating from Kyoto University in 1982, and she has been playing a leading role in the planning and operation of JICA’s education cooperation programs for four decades. Before her current assignment, she served as Director/Deputy Director of JICA Research Institute (2016–2018), Senior Advisor for Education (2014–2016), Director General of the Human Development Department (2009–2014), Chief Representative of JICA Bangladesh Office (2007–2009), and Group Director for Basic Education (2004–2007). She received her Ph.D. (in international development) from Nagoya University. Her current research interests include education cooperation, internationalization of higher education, and university participation in ODA. Kazuo Kuroda is Professor at Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Waseda University. He also serves as Visiting Research Fellow at JICA Research Institute, as well as Councilor of Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO, members of several advisory committees of the Japanese government ministries and agencies.  He is also an editorial board member of several academic journals and publications, including the International Journal of Educational Development and Global Comparative Education (WCCES).  He graduated from Waseda University (B.A.), Stanford University (M.A.) and Cornell University (Ph.D.). He has formerly held positions as Member of Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, Visiting Fellow at IIEP-UNESCO, Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo and Dean of International Affairs at Waseda University. In 2019, He received Universitas 21 (U21) Award. Yuto Kitamura is Associate Professor at Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in Education from UCLA. He had worked at UNESCO in Paris and taught at Nagoya University and SophiaUniversity. He was the Fulbright Scholar at the George Washington University. He is currently Associate Member of the Science Council of Japan, Member of the Board of Education at Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and Special Advisor to the Rector at Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. He is specialized in comparative education and has been conducting his researches extensively on education policy of developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia. He was awarded the JSPS Prize in 2018, one of the highest honors for young scholars in Japan.

Chapter 1  Japan’s International Cooperation in Education: An Overview.- Chapter 2  Japan’s Education International Cooperation Policy before 1990: Policy Debates on the Interventions on Basic Education in Developing Countries.- Chapter 3  Japan’s Education International Cooperation Policy Since 1990: Between the Discourses of International Development and Domestic Factors.- Chapter 4  Japanese Aid to School Construction in Changing International and Local Policy Environments Since 1990s.- Chapter 5  Improvement of Teacher Classroom Practices for Quality Teaching and Learning: the Japanese Approaches.- Chapter 6  Capacity Development in Education Governance and School-based Management: the Japanese Approaches.- Chapter 7  Changing Patterns of JICA's Assistance on Industrial Human Resource and Skills Development.- Chapter 8  Features of Private-sector-led cooperation on Industrial Human Resource and Skills Development: Case of the Association forOverseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships.- Chapter 9  Japan’s ODA for the Establishment and Development of Higher Education Institutions in Developing Countries.- Chapter 10  The Transition and Significance of Accepting International Students with Japanese ODA.- Chapter 11  Japan’s Evolving Partnership with International Organizations in the Education Sector.- Chapter 12  Japan’s Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) for Education: From Service Providers to Change Agents.- Chapter 13  Japanese ODA Loans for Self-Reliant Development.- Chapter 14  Fifty Years of Civil Participation: Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers.- Chapter 15  The Emergence and Transformation of Japan’s International Cooperation in Education: Analytical Exploration of Theoretical and Historical Factors.

“The book under review … provides an excellent and exhaustive account of how Japan’s aid program in education grew over the last six and a half decades. … an exhaustive overview of the evolution of Japan’s aid policy over a long period of 65 years, of the kind presented in the book here, will certainly be of interest to a wider aid community and scholars around the world.” (Jandhyala B G Tilak, Global Comparative Education - Journal of the WCCES, Vol. 6 (2), December, 2022)