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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]

31st Population Census Conference
November-December 2022, Tokyo

Seminar on Utilization of ICT for Official Statistics
December 2019, Chiba

 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)]

44th IATUR
August 2022, Montreal (Canada)

50th UNSC
March 2019, New York (USA)

 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 2nd Dispatch of Mission Team
February 2023, Cairo (Egypt)

Release Ceremony of Final Results 2018 Economic Census
July 2019, Kathmandu (Nepal)

 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, a new Memorandum of Cooperation between the SBJ and the United Kingdom Statistics Authority (UKSA) was signed.

The 31st Japanese Statistical Mission to China
July - August 2019

The 28th Japanese Statistical Mission to Korea
March 2019

The 5th Vietnam Statistical Delegation to Japan
December 2019

The 3rd Mongolia Statistical Delegation to Japan
January - February 2019

 

Signing of the MOC between SBJ and UKSA
May 2023

China

  • The 31st Japanese Statistical Mission to China (July - August 2019)
  • The 31st Chinese Statistical Mission to Japan (July 2018)

Korea

  • The 28th Japanese Statistical Mission to Korea (March 2019)
  • The 29th Korean Statistical Mission to Japan (March 2018)

Vietnam

  • The 5th Vietnam Statistical Delegation to Japan (December 2019)
  • Mr. Suzuki, State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, met with Mr. Vu Dai Thang, Vice Minister for Planning and Investment of Vietnam (July 2019)
  • The 4th Vietnam Statistical Delegation to Japan (December 2018)
  • Signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation on introduction of ICT System for Official Statistics between Statistics Bureau of Japan and General Statistics Office of Vietnam (August 2018)

Mongolia

  • The 3rd Mongolia Statistical Delegation to Japan (January - Feburuary 2019)
  • The 2nd Mongolia Statistical Delegation to Japan (January - Feburuary 2018)

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)

  • Signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Statistics Bureauof Japan and the United Kingdom Statistics Authority (May 2023)
  • Meeting between Mr. Kaneko, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications and Professor Sir Ian Diamond, UK's National Statistician (April 2022)

[More details on Bilateral Cooperation]

 Receiving visitors from abroad

  The SBJ welcomes overseas statistical missions visiting Japan for specific purposes, and provides them with information and data as requested.

Participants of the "Mr. Saburo KANEMARU
Memorial International Exchange Program" visited SBJ
March, 2023

Study visit delegates from the GSO of Viet Nam visited SBJ
December, 2022

  • Participants of the "Mr. Saburo KANEMARU Memorial International Exchange Program" visited Statistics Bureau of Japan (March 8-10, 2023)
  • Dr. HAN Hoon, Commissioner of Statistics Korea visited Statistics Bureau of Japan (December 16, 2022)
  • Study visit delegates from the General Statistics Office (GSO) of Viet Nam visited Statistics Bureau of Japan (December 14-15, 2022)
  • Deputy Executive Secretary and Director of Statistics Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) visited Statistics Bureau of Japan (December 13, 2022)
  • Dr. Shailja Sharma, New Director of United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific visited Statistics Bureau of Japan (June 23, 2022)
  • Participants of the Project for Establishment of National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) in Bangladesh visited Statistics Bureau of Japan (January 23, 2020)
  • JICA-JDS fellows from statistical organizations in Asian countries visited Statistics Bureau of Japan (January 10, 2020)

[More details on Receiving Visitors from Abroad]

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