Chronologies
Japan - Southeast Asia
Chronology from May 2021 to May 2022
: Japan-Laos Summit takes place between Kishida and Prime Minister Viphavanh.
: Japan-Singapore Partnership Programme for the 21st Century, JSPP21, takes place online.
: Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu meets Thai Deputy Minister/Energy Minister Supattanapong Pumeechaow.
: Quad representatives hold handover ceremony for COVID-19 vaccine donation to Thailand.
: Japan-Malaysia Summit phone call takes place between Kishida and Prime Minister Yaakob.
: Quad countries (Japan-Australia-India-US) hold handover ceremony for COVID-19 vaccine donation to Cambodia.
: 1st Japan-Philippines Foreign and Defense Ministerial Meeting (2+2) takes place between Hayashi and Kishi and Foreign Secretary Locsin and Defense Secretary Lorenzana.
: Japan-Philippines Foreign Ministers’ Meeting takes place between Hayashi and Foreign Secretary Locsin.
: Japan-Philippines Defense Ministers’ Meeting takes place between Kishi and Defense Secretary Lorenzana.
: Japan provides emergency grant aid for humanitarian assistance to populations affected by the coup in Myanmar.
: Japan-Cambodia summit meeting takes place between Kishida and Prime Minister Hun Sen.
: Japan dispatches personnel to Independent Decommissioning Body in relation to the Mindanao Peace Process in the Philippines.
: Japan-Indonesia summit phone call takes place between Kishida and President Jokowi.
: Japan-Indonesia Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Japanese FM Hayashi and Indonesian FM Marsudi.
: Japan-Laos Summit phone call takes place between Kishida and Laotian Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh.
: FM Hayashi meets ASEAN ambassadors in Japan, says Japan will mainstream AOIP.
: 12th Meeting of the Japan-Philippines High Level Joint Committee on Infrastructure Development and Economic Cooperation takes place.
: Japan Ministry of Defense/ASDF conduct capacity-building activities on air rescue for Vietnam Air Defense-Air Force.
: Courtesy call on Hayashi by Cambodian Lt. Gen. Hun Manet, commander of the Royal Cambodian Army, takes place.
: Japan Ministry of Defense conducts cyber security online seminar for ASEAN member states and the ASEAN Secretariat.
: Japan’s Ministry of Defense, SDF, and Vietnam Peoples’ Navy hold online seminar on underwater medicine.
: Japan donates approximately 2.72 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Indonesia.
: Japan Ministry of Defense, SDF, and Vietnam People’s Navy hold online seminar on Underwater Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) clearance.
: Japan-Cambodia Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Hayashi and Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Sokhonn.
: Japan-Laos Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Hayashi and Laotian Foreign Minister Saluemxay Kommasith.
: Japan-Brunei Defense Ministers’ video teleconference takes place between Kishi and Defense Minister Halbi.
: Japan-Philippines Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Hayashi and Philippine Foreign Secretary Theodoro Locsin, Jr.
: Japan-Malaysia summit phone call takes place between Kishida and Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
: Japan-Malaysia Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Hayashi Yoshimasa and Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah.
: Japan-Singapore Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between FM Hayashi and Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan.
: Japan-Cambodia Leaders’ video conference takes place between Kishida and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.
: Japan Ministry of Defense/SDF hold online meeting for knowledge/experience sharing about PKO missions with Vietnam.
: Japan-Vietnam Foreign Ministers Meeting takes place between FM Hayashi and Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.
: Japan-Thailand summit phone call takes place between Kishida and Thai Prime Minister/ Defense Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
: Japan-Singapore summit phone call takes place between Kishida and Prime Minister Lee.
: Japan-Cambodia Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between FM Hayashi and Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn.
: Japan-Indonesia summit phone call takes place between Kishida and Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
: Japan-Philippines telephone summit takes place between Kishida and President Duterte.
: Japan-Thailand Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Foreign Minister Hayashi Masayoshi and Thai Deputy Minister/Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai.
: Japan’s Ministry of Defense, SDF, and Philippine Army conduct HA/DR training through the Japan-Philippine HA/DR Cooperation Project.
: Japan-Vietnam Summit takes place between Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
: Japan-Brunei Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Motegi and Foreign Minister Erywan.
: Japan’s Ministry of Defense, SDF, and Philippine Air Force hold first online “Subject Matter Expert Exchange on Aviation Medicine and Aeromedical Evacuation.”
: Japan sends donations of approximately 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Brunei.
: Japan-Vietnam Summit phone call takes place between Suga and President Phuc.
: Meeting between Japan’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Uto Takashi and Indonesian Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi.
: Japan-Brunei Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Motegi and Foreign Minister Erywan.
: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force conducts Indo-Pacific Deployment 2021 (IPD21) by dispatching JS Kaga (DDH 184), JS Murasame (DD 101), and JS Shiranui (DD 120).
: Japan-Brunei Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Motegi and FM Erywan.
: 11th Meeting of the Japan-Philippines High Level Joint Committee on Infrastructure Development and Economic Cooperation takes place.
: Japan and Thailand exchange memorandum regarding COVID-19 vaccine donation to Thailand.
: Japan-Indonesia Foreign Ministers’ meeting takes place between Motegi and Foreign Minister Marsudi.
: Japan-Cambodia Defense Ministers’ video teleconference takes place between Kishi and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister/Defense Minister Tea Banh.
: Japan-Laos Defense Ministers’ video teleconference takes place between Kishi and Laotian Deputy Prime Minister/Defense Minister Chansamone Chanyalath.
: Japan’s Ministry of Defense hosts seminar on Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief (HA/DR) for Lao People’s Army.
: Japan-Indonesia Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Motegi and Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi.
: Japan-Brunei Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Motegi and Foreign Minister Erywan.
: Japan-Vietnam Defense Ministers’ video teleconference takes place between Kishi and Vietnamese Defense Minister Phan Van Giang.
: Japan-Philippines Defense Ministers’ video teleconference takes place between Kishi and Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana.
: Japan-Brunei Foreign Ministers’ phone call takes place between Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu and Bruneian Foreign Minister II Erywan Yusof.
: Japan-Singapore telephone summit takes place between Suga and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
: Japan-Thailand Defense Ministers’ video teleconference takes place between Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo and Prime Minister/Defense Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
: Japan-Brunei Defense Ministers’ video teleconference takes place between Japanese Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo and Bruneian Second Defense Minister Halbi Yussof.
: Japan-Philippines telephone summit takes place between Suga and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
: Japan-Vietnam telephone summit takes place between Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.