08/03/2017
Wonder NIPPON! Concept Book of Japan Brand Values
PRESS RELEASE As the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games approach, worldwide interest in Japan appears to be growing. In response, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released a concept book, aiming to convey Japan’s unique sensibilities and values to the rest of the world as the foundation of commodities and services provided […]
28/02/2017
Maniwa City lacquerware event to be held in London
Friday 10 March 2017 6:00pm – 8:00pm Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent’s Park), London NW1 4QP The Hiruzen Plateau in Maniwa City, Okayama Prefecture, is visited by over two million tourists per year. Gobara, a small village hidden away in one of the plateau’s corners, is home to Gobara […]
14/02/2017
JLGC Seminar 2017: Local Growth, Global Links
3 March 2017, 14.30-17.30 (registration from 14.00) Church House, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ Speakers include: Embassy of Japan – Jotaro Horiuchi (Minister, Transport) Department for International Trade (UK) – Martin Phelan (International Director, Northern Powerhouse Investment) Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) – Daisaku Yukita (Deputy Director General) City of Yokohama, Frankfurt Representative Office – Takashi Yanagisawa […]
10/02/2017
Women4Climate – Tokyo and Yokohama
In just two years, the number of C40 member cities with women mayors has skyrocketed from four to 16. More women than ever are running for office and getting involved in politics. These women are mayors in Paris, Washington DC, Sydney, Tokyo, Cape Town and Madrid. Especially when it comes to climate change, they take […]
08/02/2017
Osaka Trains at National Railway Museum, Shildon
An exhibition about the history of Osaka trains will be held at Locomotion, the National Railway Museum in Shildon from March 27 to April 27. A special opening event for the exhibition featuring James Ramsbotham, Chief Executive of the North East England Chamber of Commerce and Tetsuya Nakamura of the Osaka Convention & Tourism Bureau […]
02/02/2017
JLGC’s Japan Study Tour 2017 has resulted in two more articles on the Guardian Public Leaders Network and Housing Network websites, written by Guardian networks editor and participant on the JST trip to Tokyo and Iwaki Jane Dudman. The first article (‘After Fukushima: the tenants rebuilding a destroyed community’) looks at housing issues after the […]
01/02/2017
FY2016 International Workshop On Acceptance Of Foreign Nationals And Their Integration Into Japan
– Toward an Intercultural Society: Focusing on Life and Active Participation of Foreign Women in Japan 13:00-17:15, 1 March 2017 Tokyo Women’s Plaza Hall, 5-53-67 Jingu-mae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo People to people exchange is becoming increasingly important in this globalizing world. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hopes that every one of 2.3 million foreign nationals residing in […]
31/01/2017
Youth Volunteers Revitalizing Hometowns
Young people in Japan’s regional areas are stepping up to help their towns combat the negative effects of population decline which has stymied local economic development, writes Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. You can read this story on ‘METI Mobile’, news stories from the Ministry readable on your mobile phone, here.
23/01/2017
2017 Recruitment by Kobe City Government for a Business Coordinator in Germany
Since 2015 Kobe City has located Business Coordinators in the UK and Singapore to promote economic links and business matching opportunities, using their professional networks and specialist sector knowledge. The City is now advertising for a Business Coordinator to work in Germany, to enhance the relationship with the other coordinators working for Kobe City and […]
17/01/2017
Japan Study Tour 2017 on Storify
The 2017 Japan Study Tour to Iwaki and Tokyo has been tweeted in detail by participants this year, the Storify blog of which can be seen via the link below. The tour to Iwaki looked at how the massive Tohoku earthquake in east Japan of March 2011, impacted the city and surrounding area, where around 400 […]
