Japan-Maldives Relations (Basic Data)

November 2012

Basic Data

Diplomatic Relations:: Established in November 1967
Number of Residents:: Number of Japanese nationals residing in Maldives: 192 (2011); Number of Maldives nationals residing in Japan: 43 (2011)
Trade with Japan (2011):: 0.45 billion yen (fishes (tuna etc.)); 2.6 billion yen (ship enqine, car)
Direct Investment from Japan:: 3 direct investment totalling 1.5 billion yen from 1989 to 2003.
Japan's Economic Cooperation:: List of Exchange of Notes; Loans: 2.7 billion yen (in 2006); Grants: 27.7202 billion yen (cumulative total as of fiscal 2011); Technical cooperation: 6.279 billion yen (cumulative total as of fiscal 2010)

From Japan to Maldives

Year	Name
1980.12	Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kazuo Aichi
1981. 8	The chairperson for Foreign Affairs of House of Representative, Keiwa Okuda
1981.12	President of Japan-Maldives Parliamentarians' League Keizo Obuchi
1985. 7	President of Japan-Maldives Parliamentarians' League Keizo Obuchi
1993.11	President of Japan-Maldives Parliamentarians' League Keizo Obuchi(Ambassador on Special Mission to the Presidential inauguration)
2005. 1	State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Shuzen Tanigawa
2008. 6	President of Japan-Maldives Parliamentarians' League Hose Norota
2008.11	Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Nobuhide Minorikawa
2011.11	Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jo Nakano

From Maldives to Japan

Year	Name
1980. 5	Rt. Hon. Jameel, Minister of Foreign Affairs
1980.10	Rt. Hon. Jameel, Minister of Foreign Affairs
1984.10	Rt. Hon. Gayoom, President
1988. 6	Rt. Hon. Iriyas Ibrahim, Minister of Trade and Industry
1989. 2	Rt. Hon. Gayoom, President Rt. Hon. Jameel, Minister of Foreign Affairs
1989.3	Rt. Hon. Kamaeden, Minister of Labor
1990.11	Rt. Hon. Gayoom, President
1991. 9	Rt. Hon. Shafeey, Minister of Environment
1992. 5	Rt. Hon. Jameel, Minister of Foreign Affairs
1993.11	Rt. Hon. Jameel, Minister of Interior
1994.11	Minister of Tourism Ibrahim Hussain Zaki
1995. 9	Speaker of Citizen's Majilis Abdulla Hameed
1995.11	Minister of Tourism Ibrahim Hussain Zaki
1996. 3	Minister of Tourism Ibrahim Hussain Zaki
1997.11	Minister of Tourism Ibrahim Hussain Zaki
1998. 2	Minister of Foreign Affairs Fathulla Jameel
2000. 6	Minister of Foreign Affairs Fathulla Jameel
2001. 9	President, H.E. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
2004. 5	Rt. Hon. Zaheel, Minister of Building and Public Enterprise
2004. 8	Rt. Hon. Yameen, Minister of Trade and Industry
2005. 8	Rt. Hon. Shaugee, Minister of Tourism
2006. 7	Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Shaheed
2006. 8	Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Shaheed
2007. 8	Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulla Shahid
2007. 9	Rt. Hon. Shaugee, Minister of Tourism and Private aviation
2009. 1	Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Shaheed
2010. 3	Rt. Hon. Zaki, Special Envoy of President
2012. 1	Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Naseem

246.1 million yen (Cultural Grant Aid)