Japan-Barbados Relations

March 2011

Basic Data

Diplomatic Relations:: Established in September 1967
Number of Residents:: Number of Japanese nationals residing in Barbados: 6 (October 2009)
Trade with Japan:: Exports: 5 million yen (technological optical instruments, rum) (2009); Imports: 2,872 million yen (automobile, automobile parts) (2009)
Direct Investment from Japan:: 5,300 million yen: Cumulative total as of December 31, 2005
Japan's Economic Cooperation:: ODA Loans: 0 (cumulative total as of 2008); Grants: 0 (cumulative total as of 2008); Technical cooperation: 984 million yen (cumulative total as of 2007)
Major Donors (2007):: (1) Canada (2) U.K. (3) U.S.A. (4) Japan (5) France

From Japan to Barbados

Year	Name
1989	House of Representative Member, Tokuo Yamashita
2008	Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hitoshi Kimura

From Barbados to Japan

Year	Name
1991	Prime Minister L. Erskine Sandiford
1993	Minister of Foreign Affairs Brandford Taitt
1994	Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Phillip Goddard
1997	Minister of Health Elizabeth Thompson
1999	President of Barbadian Museum and History Association
2000	Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Billie Miller
2004	Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Billie Miller
2005	Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Billie Miller
	Parliamentary Minister of the Department of the Treasury, Barker
	Honorary Consul General of Japan in Bridgetown Kirton
	Minister of State in Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Symmonds
2009	Minister of State (Finance, Investment, Telecommunications and Energy), Darcy Boyce
2010	Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Maxine McClean