By Gabriela Baron
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said Saturday, Feb. 11, that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ‘s working visit in Japan has drawn an “unprecedented number” of business delegates.
The DTI noted 120 Philippine companies and 1,300 Japanese firms, composed of 3,472 businesspersons, registered for the meetings held in Tokyo, where multiple ties were sealed between the Philippine and Japanese governments, as well as business leaders.
Marcos’ working visit to the country was earlier marked by 35 key dealed signed between the Philippines and Japan Friday.
According to Marcos, the 35 agreements “cut across the whole gamut,”
He said his working visit to Tokyo is a “particularly important visit” because it is “really a setting down the blueprint for our relations as we slowly emerge from the pandemic economy.”
Marcos also underscored the “continuing development of our relationship with Japan” and pointed out the “very, very close relationship since 1956 when we established our diplomatic relations.”
