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— Latest update: November 2023 — As Japan is an island nation, it is hugely dependent on the sea. It is also one of the world’s great maritime traders thanks to its reliable and efficient shipping, advanced engineering capacity, and its top-quality maritime research. The sector remains a high-cost economy but the sophistication and high quality of Japanese shipyards have ensured their status. Japan remains as of today the third largest shipping country after China and Greece. The country...

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Consumers must be aware of you in order to purchase your product. But how do you become known on the market?

— Latest update: September 2023 — The Japanese population is a traditional consumer of seafood, but meat consumption has increased gradually over recent years, especially among the younger generations. In 2019, Japan was rated as the second-largest meat importer, after China. Despite Japan’s rapidly ageing and declining population, the Japanese meat production industry is expected to experience growing sales due to the ongoing Westernisation of the typical Japanese diet. In particular, it is...

— Latest update: May 2023 — Japan is one of the largest producers and import markets of medical devices in the world and the majority of the device manufacturers in Japan are small and medium-sized enterprises.

A new portal site promotes innovative Japanese biotechnology and life sciences companies and is inviting European companies to express their interest for the arrangement of online meetings. The 41 Japanese companies on the site are innovative ventures located in incubation facilities managed by the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN (SME SUPPORT JAPAN). Most of them are looking for partners for joint research and development in areas such as Drug Discovery...

The Japanese M&A business represents a sector whose importance has been growing in the last few years.

— Latest update: April 2024 — The use of metals has been expanded and perfected in the Japanese industry, which is searching for materials that allow the capabilities of the IoT and its Society 5.0 to be developed. At the same time, compliance with pollution reduction measures will make the government take new steps to protect its resources and, at the same, time trying to reduce the use of them towards a greener economy. In the press release of 2022, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry...

Prefecture flag Main City: Tsu Population: 1,816,000 people, ranking 22/47 prefecture (2015) [1] Area: 5,777 km2 [2] Geographical / Landscape description Mie Prefecture forms the eastern part of the Kii Peninsula, and borders on Aichi, Gifu, Shiga, Kyoto, Nara, and Wakayama. It is well located between Nagoya, Osaka and Kyoto making the three cities in easy reach. It has a varied landscape that includes mountains, plains and coastline. Nearly one third of the total area of the prefecture is...

This report examines Japan’s evolving role in the development and governance of advanced AI systems across five interconnected dimensions: national policy, ethical direction, institutional coordination, collaboration with the European Union, and global positioning.

This report examines how the EU and Japan can strengthen cooperation on solar photovoltaic (PV) supply chains.

The report examines the IT Public Sector Market in Japan. It gives an analysis of Japan’s public IT services landscape, digital transformation initiatives, and potential avenues for collaboration and business development with European enterprises.

This report aims to provide a comprehensive mapping of the hydrogen value chains in Europe and Japan, assess complementarities, and identify policy and regulatory areas for enhanced cooperation.

The report’s objective is to provide policymakers, industry leaders and research institutions with a structured comparison of how the EU and Japan can accelerate the transition to Green Steel and where cooperation is possible.

Analysis of Japan’s startup policies, funding, government and private support sector, its connection with the U.S., as well as its areas of cooperation and complementarity with the EU