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On 25 December Japan launched its Green Growth Strategy which aims to support the 2050 carbon neutrality target. The full document is only available in Japanese, but the EU-Japan Cooperation for Climate has published an English summary of the main elements for a European audience (including...

A new portal promotes innovative Japanese biotechnology and life sciences companies and invites European companies to express their interest in online meetings. The 41 Japanese companies on the site are innovative ventures located in incubation facilities managed by the Organization for Small &...

The EU-Japan Regional Cooperation (EJRC) Helpdesk is a regional cooperation platform mobilising European regions and clusters through the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and the EU-Japan Partnership on Sustainable Connectivity. Launched by the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation...

The European Commission and Japan have signed an agreement on civil aviation safety, which will further boost the EU's already strong cooperation with Japan and reinforce the competitiveness of the EU's aviation industry. One and a half years after the EU and Japan's Economic Partnership Agreement...

The EU-Japan Centre May report of key developments in Japanese industry and government policy covers the following topics: LEGISLATION AND POLICY NEWS Japanese government lifted emergency declaration Japanese government formulates the second supplementary budget as an emergency economic measure the...

The report EU-Japan region & cluster cooperation authored by Réka Lóczi, a result of a research conducted under the Minerva Fellowship scheme at the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, aims at providing an analysis of the practices, successes and challenges of existing EU-Japan region &...

Over 17-19 February, representatives from Energy Agency Fukushima followed a tight schedule of meetings to identify partnership opportunities between Basque and Japanese companies, with the aim of preparing for the upcoming roll-out of renewable energies and hydrogen techniques in Japan. As one of...

The April 2020 issue of the European Business Council in Japan newsletter offers a complete array of information for better decision-making by businesses in the context of the Covid-19 crisis. The newsletter features, among others, an article dedicated to the analysis of Google data bringing...

The EU-Japan Centre released its March Newsletter issue. The publication offers a collection of news and reports on events and cooperation projects between the EU and Japan. In this issue you will find details on the upcoming EPA webinars the Centre’s EPA HELPDESK organises to help EU SMEs take...

The EU-Japan Centre in Tokyo is regularly publishing "Industry and Policy News" from the Japanese industrial, business and policy landscape, including newly released policy documents, surveys, and official statements, in the context of EU-Japan industrial cooperation. Please find out about recent...

The EU-Japan Centre in Tokyo is regularly publishing "Industry and Policy News" from the Japanese industrial, business and policy landscape, including newly released policy documents, surveys, and official statements, in the context of EU-Japan industrial cooperation. Please find out about recent...

In November 2019, Vitagora celebrated 10 years of cooperation with Japan. The French food innovation cluster was honoured to host NARO’s President, Dr K. KYUMA, and Vice-President, Dr A. MATSUDA, and their team who came and met Vitagora’s President M. Pierre Guez and Director M. Christophe Breuillet...