{"id":16498,"date":"2026-05-22T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/?p=16498"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:23:12","slug":"ministr-investitsij-promyshlennosti-i-torgovli-vstretilsya-s-novym-glavoj-predstavitelstva-jica-v-uzbekistane-mamoru-sakaem-i-ego-predshestvennikom-bito-yoshibumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/novosti-uzbekistana\/ministr-investitsij-promyshlennosti-i-torgovli-vstretilsya-s-novym-glavoj-predstavitelstva-jica-v-uzbekistane-mamoru-sakaem-i-ego-predshestvennikom-bito-yoshibumi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Minister of Investment, Industry, and Trade met with Mamoru Sakai, the newly appointed Chief Representative of the JICA Uzbekistan Office, and his predecessor, Bito Yoshibumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>On May 21, the Minister of Investment, Industry, and Trade, Laziz Kudratov, met with Mamoru Sakai, the newly appointed Chief Representative of the JICA Uzbekistan Office, and his predecessor, Bito Yoshibumi, the press service of the MIIT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/MIIT_Uz\/18082?single\">reports<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sverenins.uz\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-05-21_20-49-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19962\" src=\"http:\/\/sverenins.uz\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-05-21_20-49-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discussions highlighted the vital role of JICA as one of Uzbekistan&#8217;s key strategic partners in executing major projects across energy, transport, agriculture, healthcare, education, and infrastructure sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, a long-term collaborative program is under development with JICA, encompassing 17 high-potential projects valued at $2.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The parties also reviewed the development of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), the &#8220;One Village &#8211; One Product&#8221; initiative, the preparation of new agreements to be signed on the sidelines of the V Tashkent International Investment Forum, and cooperation in STEM education, including the establishment of joint laboratories with Japanese universities.<\/p>\n<p>Laziz Kudratov expressed his sincere gratitude to Mr. Bito Yoshibumi for his significant contribution to strengthening the strategic partnership between Uzbekistan and Japan, and extended his congratulations to Mr. Mamoru Sakai on his appointment as the Head of the JICA Uzbekistan Office.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 21, the Minister of Investment, Industry, and Trade, Laziz Kudratov, met with Mamoru Sakai, the newly appointed Chief Representative of the JICA Uzbekistan Office, and his predecessor, Bito&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti-uzbekistana"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16500,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498\/revisions\/16500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}