TOKYO -- Japan will dispatch specialists and advisers in areas such as trade to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as part of a cooperation deal to be signed later this year.
The government will send experts to the ASEAN Secretariat and other agencies of the region's 10-member association under the program, slated to begin as soon as early 2020. Tokyo will invite staff from ASEAN's head office to international conferences and workshops in Japan as well. The deal also broadens the reach of Japan's development aid in Southeast Asia.
