Highlights: Japan hosts conference on promoting Ukraine's reconstruction. Ukraine's IT industry and its start-ups attract the greatest interest in Japan. Japan's pacifist Constitution prevents Japan from offering Ukraine military equipment. Last year, Japan decided to allocate $1 billion to humanitarian projects and the reconstruction of Ukraine. And the country wants to increase this amount to 4.5 billion, through international institutions. The Ukrainian Prime Minister, Denis Chmyhal, is attending this conference. The conference benefits from the support of Keidanren, the all-powerful Japanese employers' federation.

Japan hosts conference on promoting Ukraine's reconstruction

Japan is hosting a conference this Monday, February 19, on promoting the economic reconstruction of Ukraine, just before the second anniversary of the Russian invasion. The Ukrainian Prime Minister, Denis Chmyhal, and delegates from around a hundred Ukrainian companies and institutions are attending this conference, which benefits from the support of Keidanren, the all-powerful Japanese employers' federation.

At the entrance to the site of the Japan-Ukraine Conference for Promoting Economic Growth and Reconstruction in Tokyo, February 19, 2024. © Eugene Hoshiko / Reuters

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in Tokyo,

Frédéric Charles

At the end of the conference, more than forty documents for the reconstruction of Ukraine must be signed.

Japan

has chosen seven target areas for rebuilding Ukraine's infrastructure: demining and debris removal, development of agriculture and related industries, production of biochemicals, expansion of digital industry and technology. information, infrastructure in the energy and transport sectors and the improvement of humanitarian conditions and measures against corruption.

On the eve of the conference, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) introduced Japanese companies to potential business partners in

Ukraine

. A precision machinery manufacturer from Nagano exhibited emergency water purifiers.

Japan eased restrictions on arms exports

Ukraine's IT industry and its start-ups attract the greatest interest in Japan. The country wants to ease travel restrictions to Ukraine for Japanese companies that will contribute to the country's reconstruction.

Japan's pacifist Constitution prevents Japan from offering Ukraine military equipment. Yet for the first time, the country began delivering Patriot missiles to the United States to

enable Washington

to supply them to Ukraine.

Last year, Japan decided to allocate $1 billion to humanitarian projects and the reconstruction of Ukraine. And the country wants to increase this amount to 4.5 billion, through international institutions.

Japan hosts conference on promoting Ukraine's reconstruction

Japan hosts conference on promoting Ukraine's reconstruction

Japan eased restrictions on arms exports

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