Smartphone & Mobile Expo is part of Japan IT Week that ran earlier in the month at Tokyo Big Sight. According to organisers, the information and communication technology (ICT) industry is the largest sector in Japan with a market scale of $1.2 trillion (as of 2011). The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications aims to [...]
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tourism undercurrents
It’s easy to get caught up with the usual suspects. But there are alternatives that may prove as appealing to your particular preferences. Some destinations are close by, so a one-day tour can involve working with a tour company that provides a bilingual guide, and a car or mini-van for an 8-hour stint to, say, Kamakura, south [...]
Convention business
The Tokyo Convention and Visitors Bureau (TCVB) works with partners such as designated destination management companies in Japan, North America and Europe; professional congress organisers; event production companies; event planners; cultural programme planners; enterprises specialising in AV rental; personnel and staffing companies; car and limousine service firms; Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways; and VAT [...]
what consumers can stomach
The Japanese government encourages opinion and information by email, fax or regular post “About the Imported Foods Inspection Information”. While you may have some detailed bone of contention, addressing the envelope is already a mouthful: Office of Quarantine Station Administration; Policy Planning and Communication Division; Department of Food Safety; Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Bureau; Ministry [...]
Insurance: under the worst of circumstances
While insurance has been around for some time, the Global Federation of Insurance Associations had its inaugural meeting on 9 October, joined by one of its new members, The General Insurance Association of Japan. The November update on a report entitled “Payments under Life Insurance Contracts in the Great East Japan Earthquake”, by The Life Insurance Association of Japan, [...]
Mighty MICE
As the Japan National Tourism Organization has done for a few years now, an invitation has been extended to leading international association executives and core-PCOs for a “Hosted Buyer Program – Meet Japan 2013”, from 28 February to 7 March (application deadline was 14 December). The 8-day programme offers those looking into holding their global [...]
R&D: collaborative, not competitive
From 16-18 January 2013, the 42nd Electronics R&D and Manufacturing Technology Expo (NEPCON Japan) represents Asia’s largest exhibition of its kind. Organisers anticipate the number of visitors to jump from 59,963 (2012) to 75,000 at Tokyo Big Sight, with over 8,000 attending seminars. Last time, 81.3% were key users with purchasing power, while 72.1% were [...]
No place like home
Tokyo Health Care University, founded in 1996 in Shinagawa ward, became a four-year college in 2005. On 27 September, a special lecture covered an upcoming course on “ICT and Healthcare”, addressing how information and communication technologies could further develop medical safety and telemedicine for home support. Advances include disease diagnosis by remote monitoring and having [...]
Recovering
The Japan Center for Economic Research on 23 April 2012 issued a report on how new grads face grim prospects of being hired, but the JCER also suggested that greater government promotion of entrepreneurialism could help. Masataka Maeda, senior economist at JCER, suggests such initiatives could ignite within younger Japanese the long under-tapped spirit to [...]
Energy flow
The Japanese government’s annual white paper on the environment views the 3/11 devastation as a chance to accelerate development of renewable energy sources. The report estimates that up to 83 billion kilowatt-hours are available through wind-power generation in northeastern Japan. Introduction of solar and wind electricity generation would create an economic impact worth ¥5.4 billion [...]
Consumer sustainability
A little over a week before the triple disaster of 3/11 in 2011, Greenpeace Japan announced the results of a commissioned poll that found most Japanese people wanting seafood both to be sustainably sourced and for fish species to be clearly labelled in order to help the consumer make informed choices that would protect oceans. [...]
My little precious
Giant trading house Mitsui & Co. has its own subsidiary devoted to precious metals. Mitsui Global Precious Metals has offices in Hong Kong, London, New York and Singapore to allow its clients to trade around the clock, around the world. Toward the end of last year, it was reported that Japanese scientists had recently developed [...]
Energy agendas
Sharing information at international conferences hosted in Japan has opened the doors to more sustainable energy systems around the world. What is surprising is the types of industries taking the initiative to get green. The 13th COMPEL ’12, 10-13 June, at Doshisha University, Muromachi Campus, in Kyoto is an IEEE Workshop that brings together industrial, [...]
Food Supply
Japan has been host to three major annual international exhibitions related to food for some time now.
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