The Washington Post published on 28 August 2019 an article titled "With One Eye on China, Japan Vows To Expand Its Engagement in Africa" by Simon Denyer.
Japan is hosting this week the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). In his opening speech, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emphasized that Japanese private sector engagement in Africa is a reasonable alternative or at least supplement to China's engagement on the continent.