Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista (right) receives books promoting children’s mental health from Japan International Cooperation Agency-Philippines Chief Representative Sakamoto Takema (left). (DSWD) The Department of Social Welfare and...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) vowed to continue supporting the modernization and the capacity development efforts of the Philippine Coastguard (PCG). JICA Philippines Chief Representative Sakamoto Takema made the pledge during the June 12 commissioning of the last of two of the...
President Duterte has expressed his gratitude to Japan for its love for the Philippines and for assisting the country in its economic development as if it was part of the Japanese archipelago. President Duterte witnesses the lowering of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) of the country's first-ever...
Japan’s financial support to the Philippines during the Duterte administration’s nation-building programs surpassed the amount committed by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe five-years ago, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. According to the DOF, Japan, the Philippines’ biggest...
The Japanese government has extended another loan to the Philippines for the Covid-19 recovery programs, the Department of Finance (DOF) announced on Tuesday, April 26. Tokyo and Manila signed a 30-billion yen, roughly P12.3 billion, in support of the Philippine government’s continuing efforts to...
The Department of Finance (DOF) has endorsed the Subic Bay Regional Development Master Plan that will serve as blueprint to maximize the economic development potentials of the former US naval base and its surrounding areas. The DOF announced Tuesday, April 26, its official endorsement of the Subic...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) today (March 28) welcomed another milestone in the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR) with the Department of Transportation (DOTr)'s recent unveiling of the project's first trainset. The DOTr and the Joint Venture of Sumitomo Corporation and Japan...
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez (left foreground) and JICA Chief Representative Azukizawa Eigo (right foreground), joined by (background from left) DOTr Undersecretary Timothy John Batan, Finance Undersecretary Mark Dennis Joven, and Ambassador of Japan to the Philippines KOSHIKAWA Kazuhiko at...
The governments of the Philippines and Japan signed a P112.87 billion loan agreement, the second tranche funding for the construction of the Metro Manila Subway Project, the country's first-ever underground railway. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, on behalf of the Philippine government, and...
A loan agreement amounting to 253.307 billion yen between the Philippines and Japan to fund the construction of the Metro Manila Subway Project (Phase 1) has been signed. (Photo courtesy of Japan Embassy in the Philippines) Japanese Embassy in the Philippines said the official development...
Officers and personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) that will handle the Japan-made 97-meter Multi-Role Response Vessel (MRRV) got their "crash course" in handling the ship after a successful tour of the Patrol Vessel (PV) Kunisaki of the 7th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters of the Japan...
The Japanese government has turned over to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) a masterplan that the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has built for the development of high standard highways (HSH) in the Philippines. JICA Study Team leader Ryuichi Ueno said the masterplan...