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21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
「時を超えるイヴ・クラインの想像力―不確かさと非物質的なるもの」展（10/1-3/5）およびプレスガイダンス（9/30）のご案内
This press release is published only in Japanese version.
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The ICEF2022 Secretariat
================================================================== The international conference to discuss innovation, the key to solving global warming with experts from industry, academia, and government from the world Announcement for “Innovation for Cool Earth Forum 9th Annual Meeting (ICEF2022)” Date and Time:8:30～18:35, Wednesday, October 5/ 9:00～17:00, Thursday, October 6 Venue...
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG)
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government aims to achieve a sustainable society through collaboration with startups. As part of this initiative, our City-Tech.Tokyo event will be held in a hybrid format, in February of next year. This event will create a window for startups to collaborate with other cities and large companies, as well as generate investment opportunities, with the view to create a s...
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The Asahi Glass Foundation
Climate change was rated as the top issue. The Asahi Glass Foundation, chaired by Takuya Shimamura, conducted an online survey of 13,332 people in Japan and 24 other countries in total, with 6,585 participants aged 18-24, and 6,747 participants aged 25-69. Its goal was to assess awareness and action regarding environmental issues. The survey was supervised by Professor Norichika Kanie, of Ke...
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The Asahi Glass Foundation
Further details are available in the report of the “31st Annual Questionnaire on Environmental Problems and the Survival of Humankind,” or online at the Foundation’s web site, starting at 11 a.m. September 8. https://www.af-info.or.jp/en/ed_clock/news/results-of-the-31st-annual-questionnaire-on-environmental-problems-and-the-survival-of-humankind-ann.html Summary ● The time on the Cl...
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Toyama Glass Art Museum
In April 2021, the Toyama Glass Art Museum and The Corning Museum of Glass (USA), one of the world’s largest glass collections, signed an agreement to cooperate on cultural projects, beginning with this joint presentation of the exhibition “New Glass Now.” Since 1959, when The Corning Museum of Glass opened the exhibition “Glass 1959,” it has promoted an understanding of trends in contempora...
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Suntory Holdings Ltd.
*To get the full version of the press release, please visit: https://www.suntory.com/news/article/14225E.html Tokyo, JAPAN (September 5, 2022) — Today, Suntory Holdings has signed a basic agreement with Yamanashi Prefecture to collaborate on decarbonizing Suntory Hakushu Distillery and Suntory Minami Alps Hakushu Water Plant located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, by installing the country’s...
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government
The Organization of Global Financial City Tokyo (FinCity.Tokyo) is pleased to inform you that the Tokyo Sustainable Finance Week will take place from October 3 to 9, 2022. This event will be held as part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s “Global Financial City: Tokyo” Vision 2.0 project, to promote ESG investment and sustainable finance while enhancing Tokyo’s presence in these fields, whi...
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Go for Kogei 2022
We are pleased to announce that “Go for Kogei 2022 Hokuriku Crafts Festival” will be held from September 17th (Saturday) to October 23rd (Sunday), 2022 in the Hokuriku region(Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui). Prior to the opening, a Press Tour will be held from September 16th (Friday) to September 17th (Saturday). Go for Kogei was established in 2020 as a new platform for promoting contemporary pers...
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Production of the Concept Movie, “Tokyo Parasports Month”: Para Sports x Tokyo of the Future
We are pleased to announce the production of the concept movie “Tokyo Parasports Month.” The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has designated August and September, the months when the Paralympic Games were held, as “Tokyo Parasports Month,” and will implement various Para sports initiatives to further promote the Para sports movement. 1. Overview - Review highlights of Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Ga...
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Toyama Prefecture
Call for Nominations of Candidates for the 3rd YAKAMOCHI MEDAL
In 2017, on the occasion of the 1300th anniversary of the birth of Otomo no Yakamochi, author of many splendid poems in Etchu Province, Toyama Prefecture created the Yakamochi Medal, which is awarded every two years to honor the achievements of outstanding poets around the world. We now would like to inform you that we are accepting nominations of candidates for the 3rd Yakamochi Medal. &n...
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Future Food Institute
AWARD-WINNING FOOD SUSTAINABILITY TRAINING AND NETWORKING PROGRAM LAUNCHES IN TOKYO
Innovative Sustainable Development Training and Networking program, the Food & Climate Shapers Digital Boot Camp, inaugurates its 1st Japanese edition. 24 Tokyo-based food industry leaders and students recently completed the groundbreaking professional training and networking program addressing global food system sustainability, developed by the Future Food Institute and the Food and Agr...
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The Asahi Glass Foundation
2022 BLUE PLANET PRIZE: ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZE WINNERS
This year marks the 31st awarding of the Blue Planet Prize, the international environmental award sponsored by the Asahi Glass Foundation, chaired by Takuya Shimamura. Every year, the Foundation selects two winners, individuals or organizations who have made significant contributions to the resolution of global environmental problems. The Board of Directors have selected the following 2022 Blue...
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Kumamoto City
The 4th Asia-Pacific Water Summit, an international conference for high-level officials from the Asia-Pacific region to deepen the understanding of water-related issues and promote actual resource mobilization and action, was held on April 23rd and 24th at Kumamoto-jo Hall. Heads of state and cabinet-level officials from 30 countries participated in the Water Summit in-...
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Hakuba International School (HIS)
Hakuba International School (Location: Hakuba Village, Nagano, Japan) will open in September 2022 as an international boarding school. The school is founded on the belief that education is the essential element in creating a sustainable society. Our team has drawn together leading neuroscience-based learning methods to design a school for the 21st century and beyond. In particular, the methods ...
