The 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation
(Japan’s ODA to ASEAN)

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Photos of senior volunteers and local staff Photo: Tadashi Kikuchi, Faculty of Economics, TEIKYO University
Picture of Sihanoukville Port Container Terminal in Cambodia Photo: JICA
Photo of teaching climate change-adapted agriculture in a greenhouse at Can Tho University in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. Photo: JICA

The year 2023 marks the 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation. This page highlights mainly Japan’s ODA cooperation to ASEAN. Various efforts and episodes related to Japan’s development assistance in ASEAN are available. The outline of ASEAN and Japan-ASEAN cooperation through the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF) are seen in “Related Rinks” as below.

Documantary Video (Japanese)

Photographs from the documentary video of efforts for free and open oceansb

Public Private Partnership with ASEAN

Photo of Taiyo Shoji employees and local people explaining CFC countermeasures in Malaysia

Photo：TAIYO SHOJI Co., ltd.

Columns in White Paper on Development Cooperation

Photo of a child in a shop selling coffee in Phnom Penh

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