Japan

Since 2019, the EU and Japan have been working together through the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Together, with a more general Strategic Partnership Agreement, the partnership has become the cornerstone of an enhanced relationship between the EU and Japan. On 28 September, Commissioner...

On 25 December Japan launched its Green Growth Strategy which aims to support the 2050 carbon neutrality target. The full document is only available in Japanese, but the EU-Japan Cooperation for Climate has published an English summary of the main elements for a European audience (including...

A new portal promotes innovative Japanese biotechnology and life sciences companies and invites European companies to express their interest in online meetings. The 41 Japanese companies on the site are innovative ventures located in incubation facilities managed by the Organization for Small &...

Short-term mobility programme in Japan for EU Industry Cluster Managers (also called “EUClusters2Japan”; up to a 6-week stay in Japan until 31 March 2024; offered to selected EU clusters involved in Industry, trade, research and innovation sectors). Open from 29 June 2023 until 30 August 2023...

The Champion SMEs of the call for the second target country, Japan were selected by the F2F Health Matters project consortium. SMEs get the opportunity to expand their business and to start a new internationalisation journey. Three types of dedicated internationalisation support will be provided...

Results of the call for pitches On April 21st 2022, REC-N-COMP closed its call for pitches. The call was open to all SMEs from Italy, France, Belgium and Poland, interested in internationalization support towards the USA, Japan and Singapore. The targeted sector is the recycled and sustainable...

The call for pitches has been extendend to April 21st! Call for pitches: Ready, steady… explore! Are you a SMEs from Italy, Belgium, France or Poland, interested in expanding its export business to the USA, Japan on Singapore in relation with composite and recycled materials? If yes, this call is...

The EU-Japan Regional Cooperation (EJRC) Helpdesk is a regional cooperation platform mobilising European regions and clusters through the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and the EU-Japan Partnership on Sustainable Connectivity. Launched by the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation...

The European Commission and Japan have signed an agreement on civil aviation safety, which will further boost the EU's already strong cooperation with Japan and reinforce the competitiveness of the EU's aviation industry . One and a half years after the EU and Japan's Economic Partnership Agreement...

The EU-Japan Centre May report of key developments in Japanese industry and government policy covers the following topics: LEGISLATION AND POLICY NEWS Japanese government lifted emergency declaration Japanese government formulates the second supplementary budget as an emergency economic measure the...

The report EU-Japan region & cluster cooperation authored by Réka Lóczi, a result of a research conducted under the Minerva Fellowship scheme at the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, aims at providing an analysis of the practices, successes and challenges of existing EU-Japan region &...

Over 17-19 February, representatives from Energy Agency Fukushima followed a tight schedule of meetings to identify partnership opportunities between Basque and Japanese companies, with the aim of preparing for the upcoming roll-out of renewable energies and hydrogen techniques in Japan. As one of...