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Sasakawa Peace Foundation
On December 3, 2020, the Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (OPRI-SPF), headed by President Atsushi Sunami, will co-organize a webinar entitled “Ocean Panel’s policy recommendations: Promoting sustainable ocean economies and international partnership” with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, and in cooperation with the Embassy of Palau and Embassy of Norway in...
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG), as part of our policy to make Tokyo into the world’s leading financial city, has set out to attract overseas financial firms with the “Global Financial City: Tokyo” Vision formulated in November 2017. In light of recent international situations, TMG is implementing the “Project for Temporary Office Allocation for Financial Foreign Companies and Human ...
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) formulated the “Global Financial City: Tokyo” Vision with the aim of making Tokyo an unrivalled global financial center, and one of its primary focuses has been nurturing the FinTech industry. This fiscal year, as part of this initiative, we have launched the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Accelerator Program “FinTech Program: Asia meets Tokyo” for Fi...
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THE ASAHI GLASS FOUNDATION
Interview Videos of 2020 Blue Planet Prize Winners Released
The Asahi Glass Foundation, chaired by Takuya Shimamura and located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, has released, on its special website, interview videos of the winners of the 2020 Blue Planet Prize, an international award to recognize contribution in the resolution of global environmental problems (https://www.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/special2020/). This year’s winners are Prof. David Tilman of t...
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Meiji University
Meiji University, located in Chiyoda City, Tokyo, is cooperating with Nature Research Custom Media, a part of Springer Nature (headquarters: London, UK), the publisher of Nature, to hold an online event, “Life science: amazing professors at Meiji University in Tokyo” that will introduce cutting-edge research in the life sciences worldwide that will take place on Thursday, November 26, 2020. ...
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Minato City
Minato City AI Chat service available in multiple languages.
In Minato City, about 190,000 foreign nationals from approximately 130 countries are living. The City is making use of AI in a chat function, in order to automatically answer questions that arise from everyday life or inquiries about administrative information, in Easy Japanese and English. If residents ask questions entering good keywords, they will get easy-to-understand answers with maps o...
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PR Office for Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13
Tokyo (November 5, 2020)-Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), organizers of the Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13, are pleased to announce that a new schedule for the 12 proposed projects have been decided. The implementation of these projects had been delayed due to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games postponement a...
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Shiga Prefecture
An online press conference by the governor of Shiga Prefecture A vision for a local government’s future during and after the COVID-19 era Challenges of Shiga Prefecture, Home to Lake Biwa November 12, 2020 (4:00 – 5:10 PM) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ■From its experiences so far with...
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is pleased to announce that 5 local firms and 11 overseas firms have passed our initial review and have been selected as participants for the support program in the “Financial Innovation Category” of this year’s “Tokyo Financial Award”. For this year, TMG set 25 themes pertaining to B-to-C services and 5 themes pertaining to B-to-B services under the “...
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government
As part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s (TMG) efforts to attract foreign companies to Tokyo, TMG is opening a new Business Consultation Center in Hong Kong, which will serve as a first overseas contact point for the “Business Development Center Tokyo” project. This project, which started in 2012, provides foreign companies with one-stop business support services. In 2017, additional serv...
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Meiji University
Meiji University launched “Step into Meiji University,” (https://www.meiji.ac.jp/stepinto/english/) a branded website designed to convey the appeal and unique features of each of its ten undergraduate schools on Tuesday, September 29. This website was created with the goal of informing visitors about the unique features of the university’s undergraduate schools in a brief period of tim...
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Japan Cultural Expo
Japan Cultural Expo: Major Exhibits for 2020 –2021 The Japan Cultural Expo is a nationwide event launched in 2019, showcasing the arts of Japan to audiences from all over the world. It has been timed to coincide with Japan’s hosting of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2021 The Expo’s programming features cultural works from as far back as the Neolithic period to the present day under the overarching theme of “Humanity and Nature in Japan.” B...
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Sasakawa Peace Foundation
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) and Conciliation Resources (CR) are pleased to invite you to an online launch event presenting two new publications on October 15, 2020, 18:00-20:00 JST. The results of a new public opinion survey, which found that the majority of the Japanese population support peacebuilding activities including dialogue with armed groups, will be presented alongside the lau...
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Cabinet Secretariat
Announcing the Launch of the Host Town Website
October 2020 Secretariat of the Headquarters for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cabinet Secretariat Announcing the Launch of the Host Town Website We are pleased to announce the launch of Host Town Website with some of the latest information regarding the nation-wide movement of Host Town Initiative for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Informat...
