Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman arrived in Japan on Monday morning for a four-day visit, landing at Narita International Airport at 9:05 a.m. local time and being received by Japan's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Nakasone Yasutaka.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman arrived in Japan on Monday morning for a four-day visit, landing at Narita International Airport at 9:05 a.m. local time. He was received by Japan's State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nakasone Yasutaka, and by senior officials from the Bangladesh Embassy in Tokyo.
Rahman departed Dhaka at 12:10 a.m. Bangladesh time on Monday aboard a scheduled Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, accompanied by a small delegation. The delegation includes his adviser on postal, telecommunications and information technology and science and technology, Rehan Asif Asad, and his special assistant for overseas employment in the Asia-Pacific region, Dr. Md. Shakirul Islam Khan.
The visit is framed as a trip to boost ties between the two countries, and it comes as Bangladesh's trade with Japan grows: Bangladesh exported 343.65 million dollars of ready-made garments to Japan in the July-September quarter, a four-year high share of its total apparel exports, according to Export Promotion Bureau data reported on October 25. Japan accounted for 3.25 percent of Bangladesh's total garment exports in the quarter, against overall garment exports of 10.58 billion dollars.
The arrival details are the ANI wire report's account, and no second wire had published the landing time or the reception party in the material checked. The visit's programme beyond the arrival, including meetings and agreements, has not been published in the material checked, so this report covers the arrival itself rather than its outcomes.
The four days in Japan will show whether the visit produces concrete agreements on trade, investment or labour mobility, the areas where Bangladesh's delegation has the most to gain. For now, the visit's significance is in the signal it sends: a new Bangladeshi prime minister making Japan an early destination, and a Japanese government receiving him at ministerial level on arrival.