Event
CEATEC 2023
Japan’s flagship tech event, hosted by JEITA, returns for another year. With a a focus on next generation tech, in areas including AI, IoT, Quantum tech, Auto tech, Semiconductors and …
Creative Industries
Japan remains a manufacturing nation with industrial production at all scales from large to small, with a deep culturally rooted hunger for creative design.
Consumers are highly sophisticated and appreciate the originality/edge of contemporary British work – and are prepared to pay more for items that are distinctive.
Japan’s business ministry, METI, has an ongoing programme of financial support to small and medium-size domestic firms (3.15bn Yen as of 2013) to assist in strategic planning, brand establishment and product development.
Already, 313 cases have been successfully supported linked to overseas designers/design input.
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WEBINAR: Expo 2025, Opportunities for UK creativity and innovation
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Event
City-Tech Tokyo
City-Tech.Tokyo is the first global event for startups led by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as the first step in its the first step in its SusHi Tech Tokyo initiative to …
Podcast
Japan Success Story: Q-Games (Part 2)
Join Steve for the second half of his conversation with Dylan and Hollie. Hollie compares marketing and PR in the digital sector in the UK and Japan. Dylan provides more …
Podcast
Japan Success Story: Q-Games (Part 1)
How a 17-year-old British programmer brought to Japan by Nintendo went on to found one of the most successful independent games development studios in Japan! Steve talks with Dylan Cuthbert …
Podcast
OSAKA EXPO 2025: A World of Opportunity – with Kay Nemoto of Dentsu and Minami Uchida of EY Strategy & Consulting.
Steve talks to two experts about opportunities around OSAKA EXPO 2025 and beyond.
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