{"id":241801,"date":"2020-01-10T01:32:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T06:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=241801"},"modified":"2020-01-10T01:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T06:41:14","slug":"duterte-thanks-japan-for-continued-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/10\/duterte-thanks-japan-for-continued-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte thanks Japan for continued support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte poses for posterity with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, who paid a courtesy call on the President at the Malaca\u00f1ang Golf Clubhouse in Manila on January 9, 2020. KING RODRIGUEZ\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday expressed gratitude to Japan for continually extending assistance to his administration that help boosts the Philippine economy, Malaca\u00f1ang said.<\/p>\n

Duterte acknowledged Tokyo\u2019s relentless support when Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu paid a visit to him at Malaca\u00f1an Palace.<\/p>\n

\u201cJapanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu paid a courtesy on President Rodrigo Duterte in Malaca\u00f1an on Thursday, with the Philippine leader expressing his gratitude to Japan for its continuing support to the country\u2019s development agenda,\u201d the Palace said in a press statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President highlighted numerous Japan-financed projects in the Philippines, which make Filipinos grateful to the Asian economic powerhouse for its continuing assistance,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

To date, Japan is the country\u2019s top source of official development assistance (ODA), with USD8.64 billion in loans and grants, as of September 2019.<\/p>\n

Japan makes up nearly half or 46 percent of the Philippines\u2019 total ODA portfolio.<\/p>\n

Malaca\u00f1ang said the President also thanked Motegi for finding time to visit Manila for the first time.<\/p>\n

For Motegi, it was a \u201cgreat honor\u201d to meet Duterte during his stay in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Philippine-Japanese bilateral relation, he (Motegi) pointed out, has entered a golden age since President Duterte\u2019s election,\u201d Malaca\u00f1ang said.<\/p>\n

Motegi likewise told Duterte that he appreciated the President\u2019s attendance to the Japanese Emperor\u2019s enthronement rite in October last year.<\/p>\n

Duterte attended Naruhito\u2019s formal enthronement in Japan on Oct. 22, 2019, but returned to the Philippines on the same day after feeling \u201cunbearable\u201d pain in his lower back.<\/p>\n

The Palace said Motegi also condoled with Filipinos who were hit by recent typhoons and the series of powerful earthquakes.<\/p>\n

Motegi expressed heartfelt condolences and sympathies to the survivors of the recent typhoon that hit the central Philippines and the earthquake that devastated parts of Mindanao last month.<\/p>\n

Motegi, who came from Japan\u2019s Tochigi Prefecture, represented Tochigi Fifth District to the Japanese House of Representatives for nine times.<\/p>\n

Before his appointment as foreign minister in September 2019, Motegi served as the Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, Minister in charge of Social Security Reform and Minister in charge of Trans-Pacific Partnership, as well as Japan and the United States\u2019 trade negotiations in October 2018.<\/p>\n

He also became Japan\u2019s Minister for Human Resources Development and Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization.<\/p>\n

Motegi graduated from the Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo in March 1978 and completed his Master’s Degree at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in June 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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