Ambassador Laurel (second from right) and Deputy Chief of Mission Eduardo Meñez (rightmost) pose with Hon. Norikazu Suzuki, Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (second from left) and ASEAN-Japan Centre Secretary General Masataka Fujita (leftmost) at the reception on the occasion of the 38th Annual Meeting of the ASEAN-Japan Centre in Tokyo, Japan. The ASEAN-Japan Centre is an inter-governmental organization established in 1981 to promote trade, investment, tourism, and people-to-people exchanges between ASEAN and Japan.