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Founding of ASEAN

ZOPFAN
(Zona of Peace, Freedom, and Neutrality)
- 1st ASEAN-Japan Forum
© ASEAN Secretariat - Fukuda Doctrine
Japan-ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Synthetic Rubber
(The start of the cooperative relations)
- 1st ASEAN-Japan Foreign Ministers Meeting
- ASEAN Cultural Fund
Establishment of ASEAN-Japan Centre
Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN
Japan-ASEAN Exchange Projects (JAEP)

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Cambodia Peace Conference in Tokyo
Japan's 1st Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations
(UNTAC, Cambodia)
1st ARF Ministerial Meeting

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Viet Nam joined ASEAN
- Cambodia joined ASEAN
- Japan-ASEAN Solidarity Fund
- 1st ASEAN Plus Three Summit
- ASEAN Foundation
- Lao PDR and Myanmar joined ASEAN
Japan-ASEAN General Exchange Fund (JAGEF)

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- Japan’s accession to Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC)
- Aceh Tsunami
- ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit
- Tokyo Declaration for the Dynamic and Enduring Japan-ASEAN Partnership in the New Millennium
- ASEAN-Japan Plan of Action 2004 - 2010
1st East Asia Summit

- Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF)
- ASEAN-Japan Counter Terrorism Dialogue
(Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths)
© Japan International Cooperation Center
- Roadmap for an ASEAN Community
- 1st Mekong-Japan Summit
- ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP)
- ASEAN Charter
- Cyclone Nargis
- JAGEF and JAEP merged into JAIF
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Opening of Mission of Japan to ASEAN
© Mission of Japan to ASEAN - Bali Declaration for Enhancing ASEAN-Japan Strategic Partnership for Prospering Together
- ASEAN-Japan Plan of Action 2011-2015
- Establishment of JAIF Management Team (JMT)
- Great East Japan Earthquake
- Establishment of ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre)
- ASEAN Regional Emergency Logistic System
- KIZUNA (bond) Project

© Japan International Cooperation Center

- 40 Years of ASEAN-Japan Partnership
- JENESYS 2.0
- Adoption of the “Vision Statement on ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation: Shared Vision, Shared Identity, Shared Future” and its Implementation Plan
- JENESYS2016-Economics
- JENESYS2016
- 2nd JAIF Caravan
- 3rd JAIF Caravan
- JENESYS2015
- 1st JAIF Caravan
- Establishment of the ASEAN Community
- ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together


- ASEAN’s 50th Anniversary
- JENESYS2017
- Adoption of the “Revised Implementation Plan of the Vision Statement on ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation: Shared Vision, Shared Identity, Shared Future”
- 4th JAIF Caravan

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- 45th Anniversary of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation
- JENESYS2018

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JENESYS2020
© Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE)
- Adoption of the Joint Statement of the 23rd ASEAN-Japan Summit on Cooperation on ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific.

© ASEAN Secretariat

Founding of ASEAN


ZOPFAN
(Zona of Peace, Freedom, and Neutrality)
Japan-ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Synthetic Rubber
(The start of the cooperative relations)
- 1st ASEAN-Japan Forum
© ASEAN Secretariat - Fukuda Doctrine
- 1st ASEAN-Japan Foreign Ministers Meeting
- ASEAN Cultural Fund
Establishment of ASEAN-Japan Centre
Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN
Japan-ASEAN Exchange Projects (JAEP)

© ASEAN Secretariat
Cambodia Peace Conference in Tokyo
Japan's 1st Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations
(UNTAC, Cambodia)
1st ARF Ministerial Meeting

© ASEAN Secretariat
Viet Nam joined ASEAN
- 1st ASEAN Plus Three Summit
- ASEAN Foundation
- Lao PDR and Myanmar joined ASEAN
- Cambodia joined ASEAN
- Japan-ASEAN Solidarity Fund
Japan-ASEAN General Exchange Fund (JAGEF)

© ASEAN Secretariat
- ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit
- Tokyo Declaration for the Dynamic and Enduring Japan-ASEAN Partnership in the New Millennium
- ASEAN-Japan Plan of Action 2004 - 2010
- Japan’s accession to Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC)
- Aceh Tsunami
1st East Asia Summit

- Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF)
- ASEAN-Japan Counter Terrorism Dialogue
(Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths)
© Japan International Cooperation Center
- ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP)
- ASEAN Charter
- Cyclone Nargis
- JAGEF and JAEP merged into JAIF
- Roadmap for an ASEAN Community
- 1st Mekong-Japan Summit
- Great East Japan Earthquake
- Establishment of ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre)
-
Opening of Mission of Japan to ASEAN
© Mission of Japan to ASEAN - Bali Declaration for Enhancing ASEAN-Japan Strategic Partnership for Prospering Together
- ASEAN-Japan Plan of Action 2011-2015
- Establishment of JAIF Management Team (JMT)
- ASEAN Regional Emergency Logistic System
- KIZUNA (bond) Project

© Japan International Cooperation Center
- 40 Years of ASEAN-Japan Partnership
©Prime Minister’s Office of Japan - JENESYS 2.0
- Adoption of the “Vision Statement on ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation: Shared Vision, Shared Identity, Shared Future” and its Implementation Plan
- JENESYS2015
- 1st JAIF Caravan
- Establishment of the ASEAN Community
- ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together
- JENESYS2016-Economics
- JENESYS2016
- 2nd JAIF Caravan
- 3rd JAIF Caravan


- ASEAN’s 50th Anniversary
- JENESYS2017
- Adoption of the “Revised Implementation Plan of the Vision Statement on ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation: Shared Vision, Shared Identity, Shared Future”
- 4th JAIF Caravan
JENESYS2020
© Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE)
- Adoption of the Joint Statement of the 23rd ASEAN-Japan Summit on Cooperation on ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific.

© ASEAN Secretariat