When I was a secondary school student in the rural area in Champasack Province, I studied at Sanasomboun High School, which is used to be called as Naluk Secondary School at that time. As there were not enough school facilities, some of them were built by the grant of Japanese ODA. And my school was also one of them!
In addition, the National Road Route 13 running in front of my school was also built by Japan’s ODA. That main road with the length of about 650 km gives Lao people better access to the capital Vientiane from Southern Laos.
Moreover, in Pakse, the capital city of Champasack Province, there is a bridge, called Lao-Nippon Bridge which directly accesses to Ubon, Thailand, and of course it was built by Japan’s ODA. Before construction of this bridge, when people wanted to transport their products to Thailand, they had to use a boat or a ship to transfer to another side of Mekong River, and then reload them on cars or trucks heading to Thailand border.