International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

424. Memorandum from Kaplan to McGhee , February 11

tin America. Reparations and indemnification payments still loom large in Japanese aid though loans have become about 2/3 of the total. Small amounts of aid have been made available to Turkey, Yugoslavia and Sudan, and Japan is interested in helping Nigeria, largely in view of a very large trade surplus. Japan is reluctant to accept a primary responsibility for helping individual countries and prefers to cooperate in areas where the U.S. in particular is active. While Japan tends to concentrate on Asian countries for political as well as economic reasons, Japan’s acute awareness of its depende…