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Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Announcing the Establishment of City Hub and Network for Gender Equity: CHANGE
In addition, the Governor spoke at the opening event via video message. 1. About the network Network name CHANGE (City Hub and Network for Gender Equity) Purpose To promote collaboration between co-founding cities and share best practices in tackling sexism, misogyny and gender-based injustice. Co-founding cities Barcelona, Freetown, London, Los Angeles, M...
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Hokkaido University
Book Announcement: FIGHTING THE MENACE OF ZOONOSES
We are pleased to announce the publication of "Tackling Global Issues Vol. 3 FIGHTING THE MENACE OF ZOONOSES," a magazine featuring Hokkaido University’s research on zoonotic and other infectious diseases. ===DIGITAL COPY=== https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/research-and-education/tackling-global-issues/vol-3-fighting-the-menace-of-zoonoses/ With the new coronavirus spreading ...
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Japanese Architecture: Traditional Skills and Natural Materials
The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan Arts Council, Tokyo National Museum, and the Yomiuri Shimbun are pleased to announce the “Japanese Architecture: Traditional Skills and Natural Materials”. The exhibition will be supported by the Japanese Government as part of Japan Cultural Expo, and will be held at the Hyokeikan gallery of Tokyo National Museum from Thursday, December 24, 2020, to Sunday...
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Japanese Architecture: Traditional Skills and Natural Materials
The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan Arts Council, Tokyo National Museum, and the Yomiuri Shimbun are pleased to announce the “Japanese Architecture: Traditional Skills and Natural Materials”. The exhibition will be supported by the Japanese Government as part of Japan Cultural Expo, and will be held at the Hyokeikan gallery of Tokyo National Museum from Thursday, December 24, 2020, to Sunday...
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Kozushima Village has been Certified as Tokyo’s First International Dark Sky Park
Please find a press release sent out today by Kozushima Village as below. December 2, 2020 Kozushima Village Kozushima Village has been Certified as Tokyo’s First International Dark Sky Park We are pleased to announce that, as of December 1, 2020 (US Mountain Standard Time), the entire 18.58㎢ area of Kozushima Village has been certified as Tokyo’s first Internatio...
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National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
Announcing the Publication of NIES Annual Report 2020
Announcing the Publication of NIES Annual Report 2020 NIES Editorial Board Office (Planning Office, Environmental Information Department) 1. Overview NIES Annual Report 2020 is the official record of activities at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) in Fiscal Year 2019 (FY 2019: April 2019 to March 2020), and introduces our institute and its research ...
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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...
