Month/Year	Major Developments in Japanese Aid	Month/Year	International Developments in Aid
Jul. 1976	Japan joins the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).	Aug. 1975	UN World Population Conference is held in Bucharest.
Jul. 1976	Japan completes reparations to the Philippines.	Sep. 1975	UN General Assembly Special Session on Development and International Economic Cooperation is held.
Apr. 1977	Grant Aid for Increase of Food Production starts.	Nov. 1975	1st Summit Meeting is held (Rambouillet Summit).
Aug. 1977	Fukuda Doctrine for the countries of South East Asia is announced.	Feb. 1976	1st ASEAN Summit is held in Bali.
Feb. 1978	DAC further strengthens recommendations on Terms and Conditions.	Nov. 1977	International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is founded.
Apr. 1978	Grant Aid for Debt Relief starts.	Feb. 1978	DAC further strengthens recommendations on Terms and Conditions.
Jul. 1978	1st Medium-Term target of ODA (a plan to double ODA in three years) is announced at the G7 Summit in Bonn.	Mar. 1978	At 9th Trade and Development Board of United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCTAD), the resolution on such measures as adjusting bilateral ODA loan arrangements for developing countries facing serious difficulty in repaying their debts adopted.
Aug. 1978	Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship is signed.	Aug. 1978	World Bank publishes the first “World Development Report.”
Dec. 1979	Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira visits China and announces the first round of Yen Loans to China.	Feb. 1979	Iran Revolution and the 2nd Oil Shock.
May. 1979	Brandt Commission’s report entitled “North-South: A Program for Survival” is published.
Jan. 1981	2nd Medium Term Target of ODA (a plan to double ODA in five years) is announced.	Mar. 1980	World Bank approves the first structural adjustment loan to Turkey.
Jan. 1981	Economic Cooperation Evaluation Committee is established.	Dec. 1980	UN General Assembly adopts the International Development Strategy for the 3rd UN Development Decade.
Sep. 1982	Ministry of Foreign Affairs issues the “Annual Evaluation Report on Japan’s Economic Cooperation.”	Oct. 1981	North-South Summit, the International Meeting on Cooperation and Development, is held in Cancun.
Feb. 1983	Japan joins the AfDB.	Aug. 1982	Mexico declares a moratorium on debt repayments, beginning of debt crisis.
Mar. 1985	Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces the “Japan’s Official Development Assistance.”	Jun. 1984	1st meeting of Latin American debtor countries is held in Cartagena.
Sep. 1985	3rd Medium-Term Target of ODA is announced.	Aug. 1984	United Nations International Conference on Population Adopts the Mexico City Declaration on Population and Development.
Jul. 1986	Structural Adjustment Loans (SAL) with the World Bank start.	Sep. 1985	Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Five countries agree on the Plaza Accord.
May 1987	Japan announces the “Financial Recycling Scheme.”	Apr. 1987	Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, “Our Common Future,” by Gro Harlem Brundtland is announced.
Jul. 1987	Non-project grant aid for structural adjustment support starts.	Jun. 1989	Tiananmen Square incident occurs in Beijing.
Sep. 1987	Japan Disaster Relief (JDR) Team is founded.	Nov. 1989	Collapse of the Berlin Wall.
Oct. 1987	International Cooperation Day is established.	Nov. 1989	International Organization for Migration (IOM) is founded.
Jun. 1988	4th Medium-Term Target of ODA is announced.	Nov. 1989	World Conference on Education for All is held in Jomtien.
Jul. 1988	Management and Coordination Agency issues a report for the Administrative Inspection Concerning ODA.	Mar. 1990	“UNDP Human Development Report” is published for the first time.
Apr. 1989	Grant Aid for Grassroots Projects and NGO Project Subsidies start.	May. 1990	Iraq invades Kuwait.
Sep. 1989	Management and Coordination Agency issues a report on the 2nd Administrative Inspection Concerning ODA.	Aug. 1990	Unification of Germany.
Dec. 1989	Japan becomes the top ODA donor among DAC countries for the first time.	Dec. 1990	International Development Strategy in Fourth 10 Year of UN Development is adopted.
Apr. 1990	Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) is founded.	Mar. 1990	“UNDP Human Development Report” is published for the first time.
Jul. 1990	Japan completes repayment of World Bank loans.	May. 1990	Iraq invades Kuwait.