Invest Tokyo: The Global Asian Powerhouse is Open for Business for Companies from NRW

Learn about Tokyo’s role as a leading business and financial hub in Asia and how companies from around the world leverage their presence in Tokyo/Japan as a gateway to business in Asia.

This event will introduce the attractiveness and opportunities of the Tokyo / Japan market, its business potential, state-of-the-art technologies and services, as well as testimonials of German companies, their market access experience and success doing business in Tokyo.

Target

SMEs In NRW

Organizer

Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Language

Japanese English Simultaneous Interpretation

Program

Please note that the schedule and contents of the event are subject to change.

9:00 am - Part 1: Attractiveness of the Tokyo / Japan Market and Opportunities for Business Cooperations

Opening Remarks

Hideo Fukuzuka
Director for Overseas Market Development, Commerce and Industry Division, Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Dr. Johannes Velling
Director General, Department “Digitalization and Foreign Trade”
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Innovations from Tokyo: Case Study on Euglena’s Biofuel Business (tbc)

Mr. Korehiro Odate
Executive Officer, Energy Company CEO Euglena Co., Ltd.

Discussion with moderator:

Georg Löer
NRW.Global Business Japan / Representative Director & President, NRW Japan K.K.

Tokyo's Support Programme for Foreign Companies

Office of the Governor for Policy Planning, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

9:40 am - Part 2: German Companies’ Access to the Tokyo / Japan Market: their Experience and Success doing Business in Tokyo

NRW.Global Business GmbH and NRW.Global Business Japan: Supporting market access and expansion of NRW companies in Japan

Astrid Becker
General Manager Asia, NRW.Global Business GmbH

Georg Löer
NRW.Global Business Japan / Representative Director & President, NRW Japan K.K.

Case studies from NRW companies in Tokyo and panel discussion

Dr. Niklas Reinke
Director DLR Tokyo Office

Ms. Akiko Tomita
Managing Director Miele Japan Corp.

Mr. Shuji Shiraki
CEO B-ON K.K.

Panel discussion moderator :

Georg Löer
NRW.Global Business Japan / Representative Director & President, NRW Japan K.K.

REGISTRATION

Capacity: 100 Persons

This event is free of charge. A Zoom URL will be e-mailed to those who have registered shortly before the event.Please find the details including registration form via https://tokyo-nrw-smesupport.jp/seminar/