Koido Seizai Co. has been engaged in the lumber business in Gunma Prefecture since 1954 and has been shipping sugi (Japanese cedar) lumber to the United States since 2018. Yoshiharu Koido, the president, described the characteristics of sugi grown in Gunma in a recent ...
Nice Corp., a distributor of housing and construction materials based in Kanagawa Prefecture, has been developing timber products that leverage Japan¡¯s abundant forest resources. Central to this effort are ObiRed, which maximizes the characteristics of sugi (Japanese cedar) grown in the Obi district of Miyazaki ...
Japanese cedar, cypress now options in U.S. building
In April, the American Lumber Standard Committee¡¯s Board of Review approved the design values of two-by-four dimension lumber made of sugi (Japanese cedar), officially allowing its use in buildings. This latest approval, following that of hinoki (Japanese cypress) in 2024, is an important step ...
In the Odaiba waterfront district, where winter¡¯s arrival felt a bit late, a five-day Christmas event was? cohosted by the Tokyo Art Foundation, Worldwide Support for Development and Misuzu Corp. ¡ª three organizations headed by the multitalented philanthropist and entrepreneur Haruhisa Handa. The event from ...
It is sobering. Looking east from the rooftop of the Futaba Business Incubation and Community Center at the expanse of ocean on the horizon, forested hills to the southeast and northwest and the flat plain stretching ahead, it is a struggle to imagine what ...
Japan¡¯s startup ecosystem gains global attention
Nearly three years have passed since the government launched its Startup Development Five-year Plan in 2022. As a national strategy, the initiative is quietly reshaping the structure of Japanese society. The number of startups has surged, university-driven technologies are finding their way into industry and ...
Accelerating business ambitions on a global scale: Techstars Tokyo
Techstars Tokyo is an equity-based accelerator that is reshaping Japan¡¯s startup ecosystem by helping local founders think and act more globally while helping foreign founders connect with domestic enterprises, investors and talent. The three-month-long program aims to change the business landscape of Japan¡¯s capital at ...
Medical platform taps AI to make health care simpler, smarter, faster
Founded in Japan in 2017 by engineer Kota Kubo and physician Yoshinori Abe, Ubie is redefining medical services through artificial intelligence. Its mission, as Kubo explains, is ¡°to guide people to the right medical care with technology.¡± What began as a graduate project at the ...
How Japan¡¯s trade agency builds pathways for global expansion
The Japan External Trade Organization plays a central role in advancing Japan¡¯s economic and technological developments. Managed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the agency helps businesses expand overseas while attracting foreign investment. With a network of more than 70 overseas offices and ...
D-POPS GROUP is a community of companies that integrates businesses and technology, a concept that we call ¡°Real World x Technology x Synergy.¡± Our goal is to realize a ¡°Venture Ecosystem¡± that is indispensable to society, and we are striving to create a growth ...
Polling experts aim to make tough decisions easier
Every day, people are forced to make choices with limited time. These decisions are often made under complex circumstances, with numerous factors intertwined and no single perfect choice, forcing people to weigh their conditions and priorities for everything from which cosmetics to buy to ...
Hybrid ecosystem forges hundreds of businesses
Tokyo University of Science was founded as Tokyo Butsurigaku Koshujo (Tokyo Academy of Physics) in 1881. Under the founding spirit of ¡°Building a better future with science,¡± TUS contributes to society by leading the advance of science, technology and the social adoption of research ...
