Visiting Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Nakayama Norihiro, and Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai have met here today.

During the meeting, the two discussed about attracting more and more Japanese tourists to Nepal and increasing the direct flight operation to and from Nepal to Japan and augmenting cooperation in the civil aviation sector among others, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation said in a press statement.

Furthermore, matters relating to further bolstering existing relations between the two countries figured the meeting, the press statement read.