MANILA/TOKYO – In a significant milestone in their decade-old strategic partnership, the Philippines and Japan held their first Foreign and Defense Ministerial Meeting on April 9 in Tokyo.

MANILA/TOKYO – The Philippines and Japan will hold an inaugural Foreign and Defense Ministerial Meeting or 2+2 on April 9 in the Japanese capital, as agreed by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and President Rodrigo Duterte during their tele-summit last November 2021.

MANILA – The Japanese government has donated PHP46 million worth of COVID-19-related equipment to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM).

MANILA – The Philippine Bureau of Immigration (BI) attended the first-ever Tokyo Immigration Forum last March 2 and 3.