Project for Reforming the Administrative System Concerning the Vehicle Registration and Inspection Program as requested by Cambodia.

## (ii) India

In October 2015, a rail seminar organized through a public-private partnership was held, and it was agreed that a bilateral agreement on a Japan-India joint statement entitled Japan and India Vision 2025 would be issued at the time of the Prime Minister’s visit to India in December of the same year. In addition, memorandums of cooperation were concluded by and between the Japanese government and the Indian government on high-speed rail and by and between the Japanese MLIT and India’s Ministry of Railways on technical cooperation in the railway sector. An agreement was concluded with the Indian government on the introduction of bullet train technology to be applied to a line connecting Mumbai and Ahmadabad.

In May of the same year, the second meeting of the Japan-India Joint Workshop Group on Road and Road Transport was held. Policies and technologies concerning alpine roads were discussed.

## (iii) United States of America

In April 2015, a rail seminar organized through a public-private partnership and at which the governor of the state was able to experience a bullet train simulator was held in California. In November of the same year, JOIN decided that it would provide support for a high-speed rail project for which construction is proceeding on a link between Dallas and Houston, Texas. In the same month, United States Secretary of Transportation Foxx visited Japan and participated in a linear trial run and it was agreed that a Japan-United States Rail Cooperation Council would be established. Domestically in the United States, an application to subsidize the Maglev Deployment Program (MDP) in Maryland was approved by the federal government to constitute an example of an initiative concerning a high-speed rail project in the United States.

In March 2016, an infrastructure seminar was held in the Philippines to promote the deployment in a third country of infrastructure fields for which the American government and companies are collaborating with one another.

## (iv) Middle East

As part of the Talks for Cooperation in Disaster Prevention, the Japan-Turkey Disaster-Prevention Cooperation and Technology Fair was held in May 2015 and featured an exhibition and announcements of disaster-prevention technologies by private companies in both countries.

In January 2016, the Turkey-Japan Seminar on Bridge Technologies was held to showcase Japanese bridge technologies for the implementation of bridge projects in Turkey. In March of the same year, the Japan-Turkey Quake-Resistant Construction Seminar was held in an attempt to promote the spread of quake-absorbing and quake-damping technologies.

## (v) Russia

Based on a memorandum of cooperation in the field of transportation that was signed by and between the MLIT and Russia’s Ministry of Transport, a second senior officials’ meeting of the Japan-Russia Working Group on Transportation was held in November 2015 to exchange information on such topics as improvements to and the modernization of the rail system and other transportation infrastructural elements in Russia and safety measures for passage through shipping routes through the Arctic Ocean. Cooperation on urban environmental issues in Russia is being advanced through the Japan-Russia Urban Environment Working Group. The third general meeting was held in June 2015, and the fourth general meeting was held in December, 2015. In these meetings, Japan and Russia decided to jointly support flagship businesses selected by both countries. Also, the two countries agreed to establish the “Japan-Russia Urban Development Platform” as a place for sharing information on urban development businesses and matching Japanese and Russian companies.

## (vi) Central Asia

Around the time of the Prime Minister’s visit to the central Asian region in October 2015, public-private infrastructure conferences were held in Uzbekistan in September of the same year and in Kazakhstan in November of the same year. In addition to promoting an understanding of high-quality infrastructure investments in the central Asian region, initiatives to support local inroads and business development by companies with ties to Japanese infrastructure were advanced.