Monthly Japanese Industry and Policy News February 2023

Topics covered on the February 2023 issue:

・This was compiled by Weekly Japanese Industrial and Policy News.

Legislation and Policy News -    Ministry of the Environment Collaborates with World Bank to Build Carbon Market -    METI holds “Nuclear Supply Chain Symposium” -    Investing JP\ 10 trillion to nurture start-up companies, government's 5-year start-up plan -    Basic Policy for the Realization of GX” was approved by the Cabinet -    Relaxation of masks, from March 13, individual judgment regardless of whether indoors or outdoors -    Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange establish SX brands -    METI holds DX Summit, official public-private event of G7 digital and technology ministerial meeting -    Government summarizes issues on financed emissions in promoting transition finance -    METI invests in overseas geothermal power generation -    International standard originating in Japan issued for control system to avoid car driving collision -    Tokyo Metropolitan Government decides on 5 startup support companies in the green field

Survey and Business Data -    Tokyo foreign exchange market trading share hits record low of 4.4%, Bank of Japan -    Number of births in 2022 falls below 800,000 for the first time 

Company & Organization News -    Honda supplies renewable power to manned lunar exploration facility  -    Nippon Steel, Mitsubishi Corporation and ExxonMobil to evaluate and establish CCS value chains in the Asia Pacific Region -    Toyota tops global sales for 3 consecutive years, 10.48 million units in 2022 -    Panasonic Automotive achieves net zero CO2 emissions at 14 sites worldwide -    China's BYD starts EV sales in the Japanese market, price is JP¥ 4.4 million -    Honda sells fuel cell systems externally, 60,000 units a year by 2030 -    AGC reduces CO2 emissions by up to 75% during glass manufacturing, demonstration experiment with French company -    NEC and Nagasaki University manage newborn vaccines in developing countries using biometric authentication -    Nippon Paper Industries builds a production system for LiB materials in Europe  -    Green x Digital Consortium successfully demonstrates CO2 data linkage between different solutions -    Marubeni to sell low-carbon aluminum products that use renewable energy -    Sony to release a camera that is easy for the visually impaired to shoot in March -    Toyobo's FO membrane adopted for the world's first "pressure power generation plant" -    EBARA develops world's first liquid hydrogen booster pump for hydrogen power generation -    Nissan accelerates electrification strategy launching 19 EV models by 2030 -    Rapidus invests JP\ 5 trillion in semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido

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