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The article will explain the norms of humanitarian assistance from Japan to a number of disaster events that occurred in Yogyakarta. In politics and economics context, foreign aid including humanitarian assistance has the opportunity to produce a dilemma in the form of reduced independence, infiltration and distortion to beneficiaries on the one hand, and on the other hand able to accelerate the resolution of disaster problems with the flow of social and economic capital. The analysis uses a qualitative approach by exploring a number of basic Japanese policy documents in terms of humanitarian assistance, interviews with a number of disaster relief experts, and the views and experiences of recipients of humanitarian assistance from Japan in Yogyakarta. This article found that the norms of Japanese disaster diplomacy for humanitarian assistance in Yogyakarta were dominated by humanitarian motives compared to political and economic motives, thus giving rise to social and economic capital of those who received assistance.