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Díaz-Canel receives Japanese Member
of Parliament
On October 3, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Vice
President of the Councils of State and Ministers,
received the honorable Keiji Furuya, member of
Japan’s House of Representatives and President of
the Japan-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship League, on a
working visit to the country.
During the meeting both dignitaries discussed the
positive development of bilateral relations between
Japan and Cuba, and the celebration this year of the
400th anniversary of the arrival of the first
Japanese to the island; the Samuri Hasekura
Tsunenaga.
In addition, they reiterated their respective
governments’ willingness to increase economic,
commercial and cooperation ties, in the context of
the new opportunities available to foreign markets
through Cuba’s updating of its economic model;
specifically the new Foreign Investment Law and the
Mariel Special Development Zone.
Furuya was accompanied by the honorable Tomoko Abe,
a Member of Parliament and Hiroshi Sato, Japanese
ambassador to Cuba. Participating on the Cuban side
were Miguel Ángel Ramírez, director for Asia and
Oceania, and other government representatives.
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