Italy offers a good balance of quality labor cost competitiveness, and Japanese companies can benefit from choosing Italy as a European research and development center in Europe, a country official said. There is a Japanese pharmaceutical company that invested in Italy to export their products ...
On Dec. 7, fifth graders at Oji Daigo Elementary School in Tokyo's Kita Ward had the chance to fry up and feast on umami-rich pork using shiokōji, a traditional Japanese fermented condiment. Made from salt, water and rice kōji (steamed rice fermented with a specific ...
Comedians boost SDGs awareness
"Why did an entertainment company such as Yoshimoto decide to become involved in promoting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?" asked U.N. Information Centre Director Kaoru Nemoto when she recently reunited with Akihiko Okamoto, COO of renowned Japanese entertainment company Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. (Yoshimoto). In August, Nemoto ...
Honoring firm commitment to peace
United Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter — the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of "we the peoples." Every day, the women and men of the United Nations work to give practical meaning to that Charter. Despite the odds ...
Japan as a model U.N. member state
The United Nations of 2018 exists in a world that is more interconnected than ever before. Countries are no longer insulated from the setbacks and challenges of other nations, and all profit in some way from each other's innovation and success. Global paths to shared ...
Dramatizing the flow of time in the form of an art installation, Seiko Watch Corp. is taking part in the Designart Tokyo 2018 event through this weekend, featuring its flagship watch brand Grand Seiko. The installation was first exhibited in Milan in April, which was ...
Morinaga & Co. Ltd.'s Choco Monaka Jumbo ice cream is Japan's top-selling ice cream, with one bar sold every 0.17 seconds or so. With that level of popularity, it is a ubiquitous, yet unique, ice cream thanks to certain secrets that prevent other manufacturers ...
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Minister hopes shared data will transform Japanese corporate culture “Connected Industries” (CI) aims to create added value and solve a variety of social problems through the connectedness of various data. The concept was first proposed by Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko at ...
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