Japanese Compensation Policy To The Burma And Its Implementation Process (1954-1960)

As the first country that sign an agreement on compensation and economic cooperation with Japan in Southeast Asia,Burma has provided a breakthrough for Japan to deal with Southeast Asian countries in compensation negotiations.Then Japan and Burma quickly entered into following negotiations on the rules and modes of operation of compensation and economic cooperation.The Japanese government has effectively examined the direction of cooperation between Japan and Burma through the investigation of the Heitaro Inagaki Group.Based on the exploration and understand of Burma’s expectations of Japan’s compensation actions,Japanese government develop its compensation policy.After that,Japan and Burma negotiated on the details of the agreement in the first year’s compensation plan,the subscription of rice and joint ventures.In the end,under the limited concessions of the Japan government,Japan and Burma finally signed the Agreement for Compensation Regulations between Japan and the Union of Burma.In the process of implementing the agreement,Japan and Burma achieved remarkable results such as Baluchaung Hydroelectric Power Station according to the content of the compensation agreement,but Japan and Burma have had little effect on the economic cooperation that joint venture as the main content.Japanese private capital and Japanese government are constrained by the poor investment environment in Burma,the bad economic prospects,the turbulent Burmese situation and potential policy risks.With the promotion and completion of compensation negotiations between Japan and other Southeast Asian countries,the Burmese government,which faced foreign exchange outflows and stagnant economy,used Article 5 of the Agreement for Compensation and Economic Cooperation between Japan and the Union of Burma to “Equality Clauses”.According to the compensation results of Japan and Southeast Asian countries,Japan is required to increase the amount of compensation for Burma.After the alternatives to increase economic cooperation investment were rejected by Burma,the Japanese government has continuously delayed and denied the Burmese requirements.At last,the Burmese government decided to cut off the trade with Japan,and set off Japanese exclusion movement and boycott Japanese goods movement to put pressure on the Japanese government.In this context,the Japanese government also reassessed Japan’s foreign policy and compensation activities against Burma,increase imports of rice.In the end,Japanese government reopened negotiations with Burma,and Burma also decided to cancel the movement that cut off the import from Japan.Japan achieved export growth to Burma in economic and trade activities,but most of the increase was in compensation payments.The structurally expanding unequal relationship between Japan and Burma in the economic relationship determines the implementation of Japan’s compensation policy to Burma.Even if Japan eases the contradiction through compromises and adjustments in the compensation policy,Japanese government delay the solution to completely solve the problem of increasing compensation for Burma before they deal with other Southeast Asian countries.In the end,Burma used Japan’s window period to think about and adjust its relations with Southeast Asian countries,and through a limited amount of radical means to make Japan choose to compromise with Burma.