Dr. Ritter Diaz, Representative Director and former Ambassador of Panama to Japan, together with Mr. Hirokazu Yamaguchi, Member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Association for Promotion of Latin America and the Caribbean (JAPOLAC) held a meeting with Mr. Seishiro Eto, Member of the House of Representatives of the Japanese Parliament and President of the Inter Parliamentary League Panama Japan to explain the objectives and activities of the Association.

Mr. Eto welcomed the establishment of the Association and expressed his good wishes for the successful development of JAPOLAC.

Dr. Ritter Diaz, Representative Director and former Ambassador of Panama to Japan, together with Mrs. Martha Zelayandia, former Ambassador of El Salvador to Japan and Honorary Member of the Japan Association for Promotion of Latin America and the Caribbean (JAPOLAC) held a meeting with H.E. Shorna-Kay M. Richards, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Jamaica in Japan to explain the objectives and activities of the Association.

Ambassador Richards welcomed the establishment of the Association and expressed her good wishes for the successful development of JAPOLAC.

Dr. Ritter Diaz, Representative Director and former Ambassador of Panama to Japan, together with Mrs. Martha Zelayandia, former Ambassador of El Salvador to Japan and Honorary Member of the Japan Association for Promotion of Latin America and the Caribbean (JAPOLAC) held a meeting with H.E. Cristobal Herrera, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Guatemala in Japan to explain the objectives and activities of the Association.

Ambassador Herrera expressed his support for the activities of JAPOLAC, stating that it is a good initiative to raise awareness of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in Japan.

Dr. Ritter Diaz, Representative Director and former Ambassador of Panama to Japan together with Mrs. Martha Zelayandia, former Ambassador of El Salvador to Japan and Honorary Member of the Japan Association for Promotion of Latin America and the Caribbean (JAPOLAC) held a meeting with H.E. Teiji Hayashi, Ambassador and Director General of the Latin America and Caribbean Bureau of  the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan to explain about the objectives and activities of the Association.

Director General Hayashi welcomed the establishment of JAPOLAC as a new platform to further advance the good relations between Japan and the regional and Latin America and the Caribbean.

On February 3, 2021, Dr. Ritter Diaz, Representative Director and Mrs. Martha Zelayandia, former Ambassador of El Salvador to Japan and Honorary Member of the Japan Association for Promotion of Latin America and the Caribbean (JAPOLAC) met with the Ambassador of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, H. E. Cesar Ferrer to explain about the objectives and activities of the Association.

Ambassador Ferrer welcomed the establishment of JAPOLAC, wishing success in all endeavors of the Association to further promote the region Latin America and the Caribbean in Japan.