On June 25, 2008, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) entered an agreement of collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Mr. Miyazaki, JFBA President, visited the Headquarters of the JICA and had a meeting with Ms. Sadako Ogata, JICA President. After the meeting, they signed the agreement.

The JFBA has been cooperating in legal technical assistance projects conducted by the JICA since 1995. Being commissioned by the JICA, the JFBA is currently assisting the Center for Lawyer Training and Legal Professional Improvement in the Kingdom of Cambodia. It is also cooperating in other JICA projects including technical assistance for revising the Code of Civil Procedure and the Arbitration Law in China and for creating systems of conciliation and meditation in Indonesia. Furthermore, six of JFBA members have been dispatched to Mongolia, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Cambodia (two members) as JICA long-term experts and they are actively working for these countries.

This agreement aims to further enhance a broad range of cooperation in the fields of legal technical assistance by nurturing experts, receiving trainees, dispatching lectures, and so on.

At the signing ceremony, Ms. Ogata expressed her expectation for the legal technical assistance and Mr. Miyazaki promised cooperation for the JICA in line with the JFBA policies.