Filipino and Japanese officials will hold a high-level meeting on Wednesday to discuss the substantive accomplishments made by the Philippines-Japan High Level Joint Committee on Infrastructure Development and Economic Cooperation on big-ticket projects under the “Build, Build, Build” program.
The Department of Finance said in a statement Monday that Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III would chair the Philippine side, while Mori Masafumi, the special advisor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan, would lead the Japanese delegation in the meeting.
Included in the discussions are the Metro Manila Subway Project, North-South Commuter Railway project, rehabilitation of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3, Dalton Pass East Alignment Road, Central Mindanao Highway and the Parañaque Spillway.
This will be the 12th meeting between the two sides. The first meeting of the high-level committee was held in March 2017 in Tokyo. It was part of the commitment made two months earlier by then-Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to provide one trillion yen (about $9 billion) in financing support to the Philippines over the next five years.