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International Cooperation in Statistics

The Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) promotes the exchange of international information on statistics by hosting and participating in international statistical conferences, international symposiums and expert meetings.
The SBJ conducts various international cooperation activities, such as sending statistical experts to other countries and inviting trainees in the response to requests from foreign countries and international organizations. The SBJ also has been regularly exchanging statistical missions with China and Korea. The SBJ contributes to promote technical cooperation through these activities.

Participation in International Statistical Activities

Hosting International Statistical Conferences The SBJ promotes exchanging of information and views from an international perspective by hosting international symposiums, expert meetings and so on. [More details on Hosting International Statistical Conferences]
45th International Association for Time Use Research Conference November 2023, Tokyo	31st Population Census Conference November-December 2022, Tokyo
Participation in International Statistical Conferences The SBJ dispatches experts to the Japanese delegation to participate in the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), which is held every year. The SBJ also dispatches experts to international conferences and seminars, etc. which are organized by the United Nations (UN), the International Labour Organization (ILO). [More details on Participation in International Statistical Conferences (Japanese only)]
UNECE 26th Meeting of the Group of Experts on Population and Housing Censuses October 2024, Geneva (Switzerland)	32nd Population Census Conference August 2024, Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)
Participation in other International Statistical Activities The SBJ is participating in various international statistical projects such as International Comparison Program (ICP) and the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standards (SDDS), which are operated in accordance with respective international standards and guidelines. [More details on Participation in other International Statistical Activities]

International Cooperation, International Exchange

Technical Cooperation Programs

The SBJ sends statistical experts to other countries for extended periods on a request basis for technical cooperation, for example, for a country's Population Census. The SBJ also invites trainees in response to requests from foreign countries and gives lectures for them.
The SBJ dispatches lecturers to the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), and they give lectures on the methodologies of surveys and analyzing survey results and so on.

[More details on Technical Cooperation Programs]

Country Focused Training Course on Development of Time Use Survey
and Statistical Methods (Including SDGs Indicators) Using IT for CAPMAS
The 4th Dispatch of Mission Team
May 2024, Cairo (Egypt)

Country Focused Training Course on Development of Time Use Survey
and Statistical Methods (Including SDGs Indicators) Using IT for CAPMAS
The 2nd Dispatch of Mission Team
February 2023, Cairo (Egypt)

Bilateral Cooperation The SBJ has been promoting exchanges of statistical missions with China and Korea almost every year. It has been regularly exchanging missions with China since 1980 and with Korea since 1982. The SBJ strengthened cooperative relationship by signing the Memorandum of Cooperation with the General Statistics Office (GSO) of Vietnam in January 2015, and with the National Statistics Office (NSO) of Mongolia in February 2017. In May 2023, the Memorandum of Cooperation between the United Kingdom Statistics Authority (UKSA) and the SBJ was signed.
The 32nd Chinese Statistical Mission to Japan July - August 2024	The 31st Korean Statistical Mission to Japan June 2025
The 6th Vietnam Statistical Delegation to Japan September 2024	The 4th Mongolia Statistical Delegation to Japan December 2024
The 2nd UK Statistical Delegation to Japan March 2025