Japan has included Pakistan in the list of top 10 friendly countries and looks forward to assisting Pakistan in development activities, asserted the Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan Kuninori Matsuda while addressing the annual meeting of Pakistan-Japan Business Forum earlier this week.

He emphasised that Karachi has an untapped potential for economic activities, reminiscing a time when Karachi was the hub of entertainment and cultural activities, and many young people from across the world including from Japan visited the city in the 1960s.Besides the automobile sector, the Japanese ambassador identified several other sectors of fishing, agriculture, food, pharmaceutical, energy, tourism, education, logistics for trade partnership between Japan and Pakistan.