Japan set up an embassy in Mauritius earlier this year and the country’s first resident ambassador to Mauritius, Mr Yoshiharu Kato, has now taken office in Port Louis.

Mauritius and Japan established diplomatic relations in 1969. Since then, the two countries have shared friendly relations and cooperated in several areas particularly under the umbrella of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), through which Japan provided technical assistance for disaster risk management, coastal protection and rehabilitation programme, and landslide management.