Nigeria, Aug. 22 -- The announcement was made on the sidelines of the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), where Japan also unveiled new partnership frameworks with three other African nations. Under the arrangement, Nagai in Yamagata Prefecture was named the hometown of Tanzania, Sanjo in Niigata Prefecture for Ghana, and Imabari in Ehime Prefecture for Mozambique.

As part of the Nigeria-Kisarazu partnership, Tokyo will create a special visa category for highly skilled young Nigerians, including artisans and blue-collar workers willing to upskill, to live and work in the city. The initiative, facilitated by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), aims to strengthen people-to-people exchanges whi...