to participate in the East European Development Bank, making a contribution of 8.5 percent, the same as the United States and major West European donors. Japan also displayed a growing prominence in IMF deliberations, helping ease the massive debt burdens of developing countries, and generally supported efforts in the early 1990s at the GATT Uruguay Round of trade negotiations to liberalize world trade and investment. List of the largest trading partners of Japan These figures do not include services or foreign direct investment, but only trade in goods. The fifteen largest Japanese trading partners with their total trade (sum of imports and exports) in billions of US Dollars for calendar year 2017 are as follows: Japan is also the dominant export partner of the following: See also Ministry of International Trade and Industry JETRO Foreign aid institutions of Japan Bibliography Choate, Pat, "Agents of Influence", New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. References Foreign relations of Japan Foreign trade of Japan Trade policy of Japan