by Americas Office | Sep 18, 2020 | Industry Deep Dive
An emerging innovation district with boundless potential The Yokohama bay area is in the midst of transforming itself into a next generation innovation district. The bay area, which stretches roughly from Yokohama station to Kannai station, includes the master-planned...
by Americas Office | Aug 26, 2020 | Innovation Interview
Shigeo Murata of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s Yokohama office has been working as a startup supporter since 2017, and is currently involved in the managing of YOXO BOX, Yokohama city’s very own startup growth center. He spoke to us on his experiences working with...
by Americas Office | Aug 17, 2020 | Company Spotlight
Appropriately managing employee stress levels, creating high quality services and goods, and increasing productivity are all important management issues for companies to balance. We spoke with Kanji Okazaki of Risk Measurement Technologies (RimTech), a company which...
by Americas Office | Apr 21, 2020 | Innovation Interview
Eisuke Tachikawa, NOSIGNER, Founder and Director When Yokohama announced its “Innovation City” initiative, that declaration came with the expectation that innovation would be created in networks beyond individual organizations. The YOXO branding was created to help...
by Americas Office | Feb 17, 2020 | Innovation Interview
Iwao Kobayashi, Code for YOKOHAMA, Joint Representative Iwao Kobayashi works with Code for YOKOHAMA, a local volunteer organization that promotes public IT initiatives. Kobayashi also provides consulting services for IT companies on design and implementation of...
by Americas Office | Nov 5, 2019 | Special Features
Sumire Daikai, staying in New York as an intern from Yokohama City University, contributed the following article about overseas internship efforts at Yokohama City University: Yokohama City University (YCU) has a slogan of “START IN YOKOHAMA, GO GLOBAL” and puts the...
