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July 2012

Basic Data

Diplomatic Relations:
Established in 26 January 1992
Japanese Nationals:
163 (as of February 2007)
Trade with Japan:
Export: 548 million yen (automobile, steel pipe for boring oil and gas)
Import: 12 billion yen (aluminium, dairy products)
Japan's Economic Cooperation:
List of Exchange of Notes
Technical cooperation: 187 million yen
(reception of trainees and dispatch of experts)

VIP Visits

From Japan to Ukraine
Year Name
1995 Mr. Yanagisawa, Parliamentary Vice Minister
1996 July Mr. Ikeda, Minister for Foreign Affairs
1997 August Mr. Saito, President of the House of Councillors
1997 September Mr. Hayashi, Member of the House of Representatives
1997 October Mr. Yanagisawa, Member of the House of Representatives
1998 January Mr. Akiyama, Vice Minister, National Defence Agency
1998 November KEIDANREN Economic Mission
2001 March KEIDANREN Economic Mission
2003 September Ms. Yoriko Kawaguchi, Minister for Foreign Affairs
2005 Mr. Ichiro Aisawa, Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
2006 Mr. Taro Aso, Minister for Foreign Affairs
From Ukraine to Japan
Year Name
1995 March Mr. Kuchma, President of Ukraine
1997 May Mr. Udovenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs
1997 October Mr. Shpek, Chairman of the Reconstruction and Development Agency
1998 March Mr. Udovenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs (as a Chairman of the U.N. General Assembly)
2004 June Mr. Kostyantyn Gryschenko, Minister for Foreign Affairs
2005 July Mr. Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
2008 March Mr. Volodymyr Ogryzko, Minister for Foreign Affairs

Cultural Grant (cumulative total fiscal 1975-2004)

326.1 million yen (Cultural Grant Aid)


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