Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority
(BEZA)
Prime Minister's Office

Araihazar Economic Zone (Japanese Economic Zone)

Since the visits of both the Honourable Prime Ministers to each country of Japan and Bangladesh in 2014,
increasing number of Japanese investors is interested in doing business in Bangladesh. As of 2016, approximately 240 Japanese enterprises are doing business in Bangladesh. This is more than three times compared with 10 years ago. Now, Japanese business community has started to pay attention to Bangladesh as the next destination of investment. Following this trend, Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed the Loan Agreement of Foreign Direct Investment Promotion Project (FDIPP), and GoB decided to establish Japanese Economic Zones (EZ) as a joint venture project based on the G2G provisions of the Bangladesh Economic Zones Act 2010 in cooperation with JICA in the suburb of the capital city, Dhaka. BEZA have already been  selected developer to Sumitomo Corporation as a developer for this zone.

Total Land : 1st Phase 491 acres d and 2nd Phase another 509 acre, total around 1000 cares

Location: Arihajar, Narayanjanj

Current Development: 

  • BEZA has started the process of acquiring land for building a special economic zone dedicated to Japanese investors
  • Feasibility Study has completed
  • Environmental Impact Assessment has completed

Proposed Employment

  • Around 1,00,000 people

Industries to be set up

  • Agro-food, light engineering,  Chemical , Automobile assembly , garments , pharmaceutical  etc.