For example, in developing Talks for Cooperation in Disaster Prevention in the pursuit of solutions for an emerging country dealing with disaster-prevention issues in collaboration with academic, business, and government circles in both countries, Japanese technologies would be introduced and proposed to the government of the other country through a partnership with the Japan Disaster Prevention Platform, an organization building a cooperative framework among academic, business, and government circles established in June 2014. In order to promote such projects as those involving participation in the development and operations of ports and harbors in Myanmar, Kenya, and Mozambique and the introduction of technical standards applicable to ports and harbors in Vietnam, the development of human resources is being enriched, and opinions and data are being exchanged through the Overseas Port Logistics Projects Council. In addition, public-private partnership initiatives are being carried out through the Japan Conference on Overseas Development of Eco-Cities and other such bodies tasked with promoting urban development overseas, and support has been provided for the organization of MIPIM Japan – Asia Pacific 2016 (slated to be held in Osaka in September 2016), a Japanese version of MIPIM, an international real estate show for professionals.

Discussions, collaborations, and other initiatives promoting the overseas development of infrastructure systems and undertaken with different regions and countries in FY 2015 are outlined below.

## (i) ASEAN Region

With the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) at the end of 2015, the reinforcement of regional connectivity in this region, which is evolving into a giant single market, is important. In FY 2015, three verification projects—including the introduction of a verification project for the introduction of an overland hub-and-spokes logistics system in the Mekong area—were undertaken as pilot projects for Asian logistics with a view to ultimately facilitating the overseas deployment of high-quality Japanese logistics systems.

In order to form a foundation to facilitate the advancement of Japanese companies into the ASEAN region through the use of the framework provided by the ASEAN-Japan Transport Partnership (AJTP), joint research on paving technologies and overload management technologies in support of global road networks commenced with its acceptance at the ASEAN Transport Ministers Meeting (ATM+Japan), which was held in November 2015. With a focus on spreading superior Japanese infrastructure-related technologies, joint research has been conducted with Indonesia and Vietnam concerning the production of standards applicable to transportation safety and environmental paving. As part of these efforts, a joint workshop featuring technical discussions and the exchanging of opinions on research cooperation was held in Indonesia in FY 2015.

## - Indonesia

At the Japan-Indonesia Summit Meeting held in March 2015, it was agreed that a new cooperative framework known as PROMOSI: Japan-Indonesia Investment and Export Promotion Initiative would be launched. Accordingly, the first meeting of the Infrastructure Development Council was held in June where opinions on future infrastructure development projects to be undertaken by and between both countries were exchanged.

In June of the same year, the ninth Indonesia-Japan Conference on Construction was held for the purpose of providing support to companies in the land and construction industry sectors as they strive to enter overseas markets.

In December of the same year, the sixth meeting of the Japan-Indonesia Senior Transport Officials was held in the city of Nagoya. At this meeting, opinions were exchanged on solutions to issues and the future direction of cooperation between the two countries concerning cooperation and recent challenges in different areas of collaboration, including rail, automobiles, ports and harbors, maritime traffic, and aviation. Indonesian officials introduced a new concept of maritime traffic and matters concerning the development of ports and harbors and expressed a high level of interest in the use of IT technology for sustainable traffic networks in major metropolitan areas and in Japanese insight on this topic. Both countries verified that they were committed to continued efforts to promote close ties of cooperation and coordination.

In February 2016, the third meeting of the Japan-Indonesia Senior Construction Officials was held in Tokyo. Information concerning initiatives, issues, and technologies relevant to both countries with respect to three themes—strategic land and infrastructure development, the strategic use of PPP, and ground subsidence and the sustainable and comprehensive management of water resources—was exchanged at the general meeting and information concerning initiatives, issues, and technologies relevant to both countries with respect to roads, water resources, sewage systems, dwellings, and cities was exchanged at individual working meetings. In March of the same year, public-private workshops organized with Indonesia were held as part of the Talks for Cooperation in Disaster Prevention. With the aim of promoting the spread of