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To get the access to this report, please click here.Expert: Maths LundinPublication date: May 2020Please keep in mind that this report is only accessible to EU companies which are registered to the EU Business in Japan website. If you are not yet a member, you will first have to register as a member via: …

Topics covered on the July-August issue:LEGISLATION AND POLICY NEWS- Japan-UK EPA negotiation is almost concluded- The Government extends employment adjustment subsidy- "GoTo Travel" campaign, 4.2 million overnight stays a month- Export of black pine Bonsai to EU is possible from October 1SURVEY AND BUSINESS DATA- Real GDP from April to June, reduced by 27.8% at annual rate- About 270,000 small and medium companies will close business?- January-July trade statistics, exports to China increased…

On 25 May 2020, the EU-Japan Business Round Table (BRT) issued a Position Paper on the challenges posed by coronavirus, steps that it believes can and should be taken and ideas that could help rebuild the EU and Japanese economies.

To get the access to this report, please click here.Expert: Chieko NAKABAYASHIPublication date: August 2020

To get the access to this report, please click here.Expert: Maths LundinPublication date: June 2020Please keep in mind that this report is only accessible to EU companies which are registered to the EU Business in Japan website. - If you are not yet a member, you will first have to register as a member via: http://www.…

June 2020

Difficulties in accessing external financing and attracting investment can prevent EU SMEs from benefiting from the opportunities triggered by the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and the signature of the EU-Japan Partnership on Sustainable Connectivity and Quality Infrastructure. If on the one hand, finance remains one of the biggest obstacles to SMEs internationalisation beyond the EU; on the other hand, EU SMEs are highly unaware of available financing support schemes.

This report is the result of a research conducted under the Minerva Market & Policy Intelligence scheme at the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation. The objective of this report is to provide an analysis of the practices, successes and challenges of existing EU-Japan region-to-region, cluster-to-cluster and region-to-cluster cooperation, hereafter referred to as “region & cluster cooperation”.

By Masami Marbot in the framework of the Minerva EU-Japan Market and Policy Intelligence Programme .

March 2020The Centre is pleased to present to you its latest issue of the EU-Japan Newsletter on the following link: https://www.eu-japan.eu/sites/default/files/publications/docs/march20.pdf. In the newsletter you will find information on the Centre's activities, coming seminars and events as well as activities of general interest on various aspects of the EU-Japan cooperation.