Sejak Shinzo Abe menjadi perdana menteri November 2006, ia langsung menggenjot EPA dengan tiga negara Asean sekaligus sejak awal 2007, mulai dengan Thailand April Brunei Junidan Indonesia Agustus.
Prime Minister Abe soon after assuming his premiership in November last year began establishing EPAs with three members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Asean namely with Thailand in April, with Brunei in June, and with Indonesia this month.