Japan

Where it is on record

Aid is drawn at each country's interior point, sized by seven years of commitments; the CRS carries no coordinates, so a country point is the honest place. Power units with a Japanese owner sit at Global Energy Monitor's coordinates in the map's status colours. Debt owed to Japan is off until switched on.

JICA's own project map and its IATI files place the yen-loan projects; the site does not read them yet, so the loans sit at country points here and the works they paid for appear on the main map only where another source holds them.

Aid activities: OECD Creditor Reporting System

Japan reports to the OECD at activity level, with 2,640 distinct titles for 32,502 records: JICA's loans, grants and technical cooperation, the foreign ministry's grassroots grants, the ministries' and universities' smaller lines. The loans are the money: a port in Mombasa or Nacala, a bridge, a thermal or geothermal plant, a water system, each a single record of several hundred million dollars with the project named in the title. The grants are the count.

The purpose codes are the reliable part. The descriptions often name a region or a town (1,453 records mention one), but the CRS carries no coordinates, so the aid is drawn at country points and kept off the project map.

Records that build something

Purpose codes for transport, energy, water and the facility codes of health and education, plus titles that mention building, renovating or drilling: 7,620 records, USD 7,070 m, over the seven years.

Power units with a Japanese owner

The map's power layer carries an owner field; this table is those records filtered for a Japanese company. Eurus Energy's and Toyota Tsusho's wind and solar farms in Egypt's Gulf of Suez, Kenya and South Africa, Sumitomo's stake in Morocco's Safi plant, and a Sojitz stake in a pipeline. Japan's trading houses are more often contractors than owners, which the owner field does not show.

Country-year series: net aid, debt and what Japan reports of investment

Two official series describe Japanese money in Africa one country and one year at a time, and a third only in part. The DAC2a table gives net ODA by recipient. The World Bank's debt statistics give what each government owes Japanese creditors: the yen-loan portfolio country by country, and loans from Japanese banks. The OECD's FDI positions carry a Japanese figure for South Africa only; Japan's own statistics publish Africa as one aggregate.

Direct-investment stock by partner country

Net ODA by recipient

Over 2010–2024 net ODA from Japan to Africa came to USD 25.91 bn; Kenya received the most.

Debt owed to Japan

World Bank International Debt Statistics, counterpart 701: all public and publicly guaranteed debt to creditors there, the state and its banks together (series DPPG, as on the debt page), with the bilateral official part beside it. Sovereign and sovereign-guaranteed borrowing only; JBIC's and NEXI-covered lending to private borrowers is outside the series.

How to read this page

One record is

In the aid tables, one CRS activity as Japan reports it. In the energy table, one GEM power unit, one pipeline (its segments counted) or one cable, as the map carries them. In the series, one country and one year.

Status

GEM and TeleGeography records use the map's own mapping. Aid activities have no status.

Money

CRS commitments and disbursements are in current US dollars as reported. Net ODA is current prices. FDI stock is the OECD's net position, immediate counterpart, where Japan reports it. Debt is the World Bank's public and publicly guaranteed stock owed to the lender's creditors, the state and its banks together, as the debt page counts it, with the bilateral official part, the state's own claims, beside it. None of these is a project value and none is added to the map's lenders.

Location

Aid and the series are drawn at the country's interior point. Pipelines and cables are the map's routes, thinned; power units carry GEM's coordinates.

Not here, and why

• JICA's IATI files and project map carry locations for the yen-loan and grant projects; the site does not read them yet. They would put Japanese aid on the project map more precisely than any other provider's.
• JBIC's and NEXI's export finance to private borrowers has no project register.
• Japan's FDI by African country: the Bank of Japan and JETRO publish Africa as one aggregate; the OECD holds a figure for South Africa only.
• Submarine cables: the map's cable layer names no Japanese owner on an African landing.

Sources and licences

• OECD, Creditor Reporting System, Japan as provider (DAC code 701), activity-level microdata through the SDMX API; OECD terms of use, free reuse with attribution. OECD, DAC2a, net ODA by recipient (measure 206), current prices. OECD, FDI positions by partner country (BMD4), Japan outward.
• World Bank, International Debt Statistics, source 6, counterpart area 701; CC BY 4.0, release of 3 Dec 2025.
• Global Energy Monitor, Global Integrated Power Tracker and Global Gas and Oil Infrastructure Trackers, as the map draws them; CC BY 4.0.

Download

Everything on this page, with the aid aggregates by country, year, purpose and agency, the series per country and the filtered energy records: japan.json.