Malaysia and Japan to develop green energy projects, Ishiba eyes defence ties

“We hope to facilitate this as soon as possible and meet some deadline, say by May, when we meet either in Tokyo or Kuala Lumpur,” Anwar said at a joint news conference in Malaysia’s administrative capital of Putrajaya.

Anwar also invited Japan to help with a planned undersea cable project to supply hydroelectric power from Sarawak on Malaysian Borneo to the peninsula and Singapore, and to develop a plant to process non-radioactive rare earths.

Malaysia is Japan’s second largest source of liquefied natural gas (LNG), shipping an estimated 5 million tonnes of LNG to Japan in 2023, according to Malaysian government data.