The nineties brought very positive turn in Japanese-Czechoslovak relations. This statement can be as well derived from the substantial increase of mutual visits on high governmental and also parliamentary level. Czech president Vaclav Havel visited Japan in 1992 together with high-level delegation including e.g. Vice-Prime Minister Jozef Miklosko, Minister of Economy Vladimir Dlouhy, Minister of Foreign Trade Jozef Baksay, Minister of Finance Karel Spacek and others.

Japan was one of the first states that recognized new independent Czech republic after splitting of former Czechoslovakia. Jan Winkelhöfer was nominated as the first Czech ambassador in Japan and Kuniaki Asomura was nominated as the first Japanese ambassador in the Czech Republic.

In the field of political relations one of the most important events was certainly the official visit of Czech Prime Minister Klaus and his spouse in Japan which took place in 1996. Prime Minister Klaus met among others with Japanese Imperial Couple and with his counterpart Ryutaro Hashimoto. Many other official visits on the level of ministers, vice-ministers and parlamentarians also took place in the nineties.

The Czech Consulate Honorary was established in Kobe in 1999. Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Kavan attended the opening ceremony.

The text is, among others, based on the Jan Levora's article which was published in Information Bulletin "Ten years of Czech-Japanese Relations" of Embassy of Japan in the Czech republic.