by Harry Clynch | Apr 17, 2024 | Business |
The Japanese government has tried to capitalise on the power of the private sector to advance its foreign policy in Africa, but investors remain notoriously risk-averse. With Africa now the venue of increasingly high levels of geopolitical competition,...
by Emma Ruiters | Apr 16, 2023 | Business |
Photo by Micheile Henderson. In recent years, Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been rising in African countries. A new development has been that Japanese FDI has been flowing to information and communications technology (ICT) & Digital Technologies....
by Emma Ruiters | Oct 31, 2022 | Other |
Former MSc in Japanese Studies student Emma Ruiters publishes another article on Japan-Africa. My strange and sometimes wholly disparate loves. Trying to bridge South Africa and Japan, and increasingly looking at other African countries, has been my strange...
by Emma Ruiters | Oct 31, 2022 | Business |
There has been renewed global interest in the continent, with large, young populations as potential consumer markets A Japanese flag flutters atop the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan, September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai While China is experiencing a...
by Emma Ruiters | Nov 29, 2020 | Business |
African countries and Japan have a natural synergy, and South Africa is no exception. The African continent boasts the youngest population in the world with an average age of 17. The world’s fastest growing economies and fastest urbanising cities are all...
