Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide has pledged more than 200 million dollars in aid to ASEAN nations to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
Leaders from ten ASEAN members, as well as Japan's Suga, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, met online on Saturday.
Construction machinery makers are adopting digital technologies to improve disaster recovery work.
This comes as Japan marks on Monday one year since Typhoon Hagibis made landfall in the country. The storm caused rivers to overflow, inflicting considerable damage.
Japan's Cabinet has approved emergency economic measures of record proportions to deal with the impact of the coronavirus. The package is worth about 108 trillion yen, or one trillion dollars. The government plans to issue additional bonds to help fund the spending.
Also included is a plan to secure enough of the flu drug Avigan by the end of next March to potentially treat up to two million people infected with the new coronavirus.
The Japanese government is studying additional measures to prop up the tourist industry and smaller businesses hit hard by the coronavirus scare.
Officials have already come up with a 140-million dollar package to fight the outbreak.