AKP Phnom Penh, May 07, 2025 --

The 9th Cambodia Festival 2025 was held last weekend in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, aiming to promote and preserve Khmer arts and culture, and boost trade, investment, and tourism.

The event was presided over by H.E. Tuy Ry, Ambassador of Cambodia to Japan, with the participation of guests of honour H.E Miyaji Takuma, State Minister for Foreign Affairs; H.E Imamura Masahiro, former Chairman of the Japan-Cambodia Parliamentary Friendship League and Advisor to Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei HUN Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia; H.E Kunihiko Hirabayashi, Secretary-General of the ASEAN-Japan Centre; representatives from the Cambodian Ministries of Commerce and Tourism; representatives from foreign missions in Japan; relevant Japanese ministries and institutions; private sectors of Cambodia and Japan; and Japanese and foreign visitors—approximately over 10,000 people over the two-day period.

The Cambodia Festival, organised annually since 2015, aims to promote and preserve Khmer arts and culture, and encourage trade, investment, and tourism among Japanese and foreign guests through traditional performances, classical music, displays of traditional Khmer costumes, promotional booths highlighting tourist destinations and investment projects, and exhibitions of Cambodian products and cuisine. The famous Japanese television network TBS also participated.

On the occasion, SIN Saray, Commercial Attaché to the Royal Embassy of Cambodia in Japan facilitated three Cambodian private companies invited by the Ministry of Commerce of Cambodia—K.C.C.V. Plantation, S.E.A.T.S. Inc., and SAORI Organisation—and two Japanese companies from the Cambodia Private Commercial Centre in Atsugi and KOJIMA Holdings Group.

Cambodian products such as fragrant rice, cashew nuts, Kampot peppers, Kampot salt, pepper pickles, dried mango, Mondulkiri coffee, palm sugar, white wine, Angkor beer, SAORI freehand weaving (handicraft products), Krama Khmer (Cambodian scarves), and Krama Khmer souvenirs, were exhibited at the event to promote the products in Japan and find import/export partners.

By Chea Vannak