Chronologies
Japan - Southeast Asia
Chronology from Jan 1974 to Mar 2002
: Brunei Crown Prince Billah visits Japan.
: Over 300 Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force members leave for East Timor on UN peacekeeping operations.
: The first meeting on Economic Policy Support for Indonesia is held in Jakarta.
: Vice FM Sugiura visits Indonesia to attend Regional Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons, and Related Transnational Crimes.
: Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Sugiura Seiken visits Brunei.
: Japanese PM Koizumi visits Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines; Koizumi proposes “Comprehensive Economic Partnership” in his speech to Southeast Asian nations in Singapore.
: Thailand-Laos-Vietnam-Japan Quadripartite Ministerial Meeting on the Development of Areas along the Eastern Part of the East-West Economic Corridor is held in Thailand.
: Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra meets Emperor Akihito and PM Koizumi in Japan.
: ASEAN Plus Three Summit in Brunei.
: Tokyo announces planned dispatch of 700 troops in March for UN peacekeeping operation in East Timor.
: Asia Cooperation Conference on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships is held in Tokyo.
: President Megawati and Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro meet in Tokyo.
: FM Kono Yohei visits Singapore, Indonesia, and East Timor.
: Regional Conference on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships is held in Tokyo; delegations from 16 Asian nations participate.
: PM Obuchi visits Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos, seeking “bridging” role between Southeast Asian nations and G-8.
: East Timor donor’s meeting is held in Tokyo; Japan pledges $100 million aid to East Timor.
: ASEAN Plus Three Summit in Manila. Japanese PM Obuchi Keizo and Myanmar PM Than Shwe meet for the first time since 1988.
: PM Obuchi Keizo visits Vietnam for ASEAN and ASEAN Plus Three Summits; Obuchi announces “Obuchi Initiative.”
: Japan’s Cambodian election monitoring team is in Cambodia.
: Tokyo dispatches six C-130H military transport aircraft to evacuate Japanese citizens in Indonesia to Singapore.
: Foreign Minister Obuchi Keizo visits Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore; Obuchi gives a keynote speech in Singapore entitled “Japan and East Asia: Outlook for the New Millennium” and announces a $43 billion aid package to the region.
: PM Hashimoto visits Indonesia to urge newly re-elected President Suharto to accept IMF package and conditions.
: Japan resumes financial aid to Myanmar in the form of $20 million for Yangon International Airport repairs.
: Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro visits Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Singapore, proposes that Japan and ASEAN states hold regular summits and bilateral security talks.
: Japan participates in the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia election monitoring team.
: Second Japan-ASEAN summit in Manila.
: First Japan-ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur. Then-Prime Minister Fukuda Takeo pays official visits to five ASEAN countries and Burma; Fukuda announces the “Fukuda Doctrine,” calling for cooperation between Japan and ASEAN countries, in Manila.
: Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei visits Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand; anti-Japan demonstrations break out in Indonesia and Thailand.