In 1982, the SEACEN Center was established to provide the secretariat function in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and has since been hosting and co-hosting a number of valuable and timely seminars and conferences. Seminars and conferences were co-hosted with CEMLA, and the Bank of Japan contributed to them as a speaker and lecturer.
In 1991, the Bank of Japan invited Asian counterparts to form EMEAP, consisting of eleven central banks and monetary authorities in the region. EMEAP has since then celebrated a number of concrete achievements in regional financial cooperation, including the establishment of the Asian Bond Fund. BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  following a gradual increase in China and Japan a few years earlier.