Bangladesh–Japan relations securing markets for their finished goods. In 2001, there were about 9,500 Bangladeshis in Japan. Japan recognized the People's Republic of Bangladesh on February 10, 1972, soon after its independence. Both parties celebrated thirty years of relations in 2002. Seven Japanese nationals died in the 1 July 2016 Dhaka Attacks by Islamist militants. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said "I feel profound anger that so many innocent people have lost their lives in the cruel and nefarious terrorism." Bangladesh–Japan relations Bangladesh–Japan relations (, ) were established on 10 February 1972. By 2015, the bilateral annual trade of these two countries
Shinzo Watanabe Shinzo Watanabe Shinzō Watanabe (渡辺 信三 Watanabe Shinzō, 23 December 1935) is a Japanese mathematician, who works on probability theory, stochastic processes and stochastic differential equations. Watanabe received from Kyoto University in 1958 his bachelor's degree and in 1963 his Ph.D. under Kiyosi Itô. Watanabe became a professor at Kyoto University. He was also a visiting professor at Stanford University and participated in the organizing committees of international Japanese/Soviet seminars on probability theory. In 1989 he received the Autumn Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan. In 1983 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in