The EU-Japan Centre’s office in Tokyo is regularly publishing "Industry and Policy News”. By screening various Japanese language sources of potential interest, including newly released policy documents, surveys, and official statements, this newsletter aims to provide information in the context of EU-Japan industrial cooperation. The topics of the June 2023 issue are as follows.
The Centre is also publishing on a weekly basis. The weekly releases are available on the following website with a new issue every Friday https://www.eu-japan.eu/news.
This news was compiled by “Weekly Japanese Industry and Policy News”.
Legislation and Policy News
- Government decides on inbound expansion action plan
- Second Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution was held
- Government revises basic hydrogen strategy, supplying six times by 2040
- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry sets 2030 total sales target for domestic semiconductor companies at JP￥15 trillion
- The government proposes regulations on App distribution to Apple and Google
- Unfair Trade Report: “Concerns about economic coercion grow with China in mind”
- Japan and Australia move forward to build a hydrogen supply network using large liquefied hydrogen carriers
- WTO judges China's anti-dumping measures on Japanese stainless-steel products to be in violation
- METI holds 1st Asian Zero Emission Community (AZEC) Meeting
- METI held Japan and Ukraine Public-Private Roundtable
- METI Minister Nishimura attends the 3rd Japan-EU High-Level Economic Dialogue
- METI summarizes the direction of negative emission technologies (NETs)
Survey and Business Data
- The birth rate in 2022 was 1.26, the lowest ever
- Japan's competitiveness ranks 35th in the world, lowest ever in the World Competitiveness Ranking 2023
- Japan drops to 125th on the gender equality index
Company & Organization News
- Three Japanese companies, a Singaporean company, and an Australian company to build a green hydrogen supply network
- Itochu and Neste to sell renewable diesel in Japan
- JOGMEC invests in Waterberg platinum group metal project in South Africa
- Bridgestone pyrolyzes used tires to recycle oil and carbon
- Itochu forms partnership with UK CFP to expand emissions trading
- JOGMEC Selects "Advanced CCS Project"
- EnBW, VNG and JERA plan feasibility study for an ammonia cracker demonstration plant in Rostock
- New HondaJet, crosses the U.S. without refueling
- Toyota launches all-solid-state battery EV in 2027, charging 10 minutes 1,200 km
- Mitsubishi Corporation establishes new company in the Netherlands to produce and sell hydrogen
- Use of liquefied biomethane (LBM) derived from livestock manure as ship fuel
- JIC to acquire JSR, a leading semiconductor materials manufacturer, for approximately JP￥1 trillion
- Mitsui & Co. launches underground CO2 storage business in Malaysia
- JOGMEC publishes guidelines for calculating carbon intensity (CI guidelines)
Published: June 2023
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