Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to support Ebola-hit Liberia as it recovers from the deadly epidemic during a summit with the country's visiting President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday.

"I told (the president) that Japan will boost cooperation with Liberia to provide assistance in the field of health and to rebuild its society and economy," Abe said at a joint news conference with Sirleaf at his office in Tokyo on Thursday.

The Ebola outbreak in Liberia, discovered in March last year, claimed the lives of some 4,800 people and more than 10,660 were infected with the potentially deadly disease.