Diplomatic Relations:

Established in September 1967
(2007 Presentation of Credentials by His Excellency Mr. Coulan Trevor Clark as non-resident Ambassador to Japan)

 

Japanese Nationals:

Number of Japanese nationals residing in Barbados: 5 (As of Oct.2008)

 

Honourary Consul-General of Japan in Bridgetown

Mr. Wayne Harold Kirton
(1973 Appointment for Stanley Chapman as Honorary Consul of Japan in Bridgetown)
(1989 Appointment for Wayne Harold Kirton as Honorary Consul of Japan in Bridgetown)
(1999 Appointment for Wayne Harold Kirton as Honorary Consul-General of Japan in Bridgetown)

 

Trade with Japan:

Exports: 60 million yen (technological optical instruments, rum) (2007)

Imports: 5,700 million yen (automobile, automobile parts) (2007)

 

Japan's ODA: (2003) (*DAC Statistics)
Technical cooperation: US$ 0.85 million (Accmulated total as at 2003 - US$ 4.78 million)
(In 1998-2001 Japan was the Barbados’ second largest bilateral donor)

 

VIP’s Visit to Japan

1991 - The Hon. Erskine Sandiford, Prime Minister
1993 - The Hon. Branford Taitt, Minister of Foreign Affairs
1994 - The Hon. Phillip Goddard, Minister of State in the Ministry with responsibility for Foreign Trade and International Business
1997 - The Hon. Elizabeth Thompson, Minister of Health
2000 - The Hon. Dame Billie Miller, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
2004 - The Hon. Dame Billie Miller, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
2005 - The Hon. Dame Billie Miller, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
2005 - Mr. Wayne Kirton, Honourary Consul General of Japan in Bridgetown
2005 - The Hon. Kerrie Symmonds, Minister of State in Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade

2010- Senator the Hon. Maxine Mc Clean, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade