On January 22, Minister Yoshinori Kodama, Deputy Chief of the Mission, attended the Handing-Over Ceremony of Japan's Additional Emergency Relief Goods for the Flood Disaster in Malaysia held in the WFP-UN Humanitarian Response Depot Subang.

The hand-over ceremony of the additional emergency relief goods to the Government of Malaysia was held following the Government of Japan’s decision on 16^th January to provide additional emergency relief goods worth 10 million yen (tents, blankets etc.) to Malaysia through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). This was in response to the request from the Government of Malaysia and the State Government of Kelantan, in view of the persistence of serious damage caused by floods in the country.