by openyokohama | Aug 27, 2019 | Company Spotlight
We spoke with Masa Okunishi, representative of Rising Startups. In 2015, Mr. Okunishi established Japan NYC Startups, a community for Japanese startups located in New York. The community grew expansively, and within only a few years’ time, was organizing events...
by openyokohama | Aug 21, 2019 | News
The City of Yokohama signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on August 14th, 2019 with WeWork Japan, the Japanese division of a leading office space-sharing company headquartered in NYC, pledging to collaborate and cooperate to promote startups, support SMEs and...
by openyokohama | Aug 19, 2019 | Innovation Interview
(Right) Shingo Nagai, Executive Manager and Head of Area Management, Sotetsu Building Management Co., Ltd. (Left) Yuta Hashimoto, Assistant Section Chief, Keikyu Corporation Business Creation Department Mr. Nagai and Mr. Hashimoto both work with large Japanese...
by openyokohama | Aug 5, 2019 | News
Yokohama city announced the “Innovation City Yokohama” initiative in January this year, in which researchers, technicians, entrepreneurs and students are encouraged to expand their cross-sectorial networks and create innovations from Yokohama. Since the declaration,...
