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Attendance at the conference „University and the City“, organized by the City of Frankfurt
On 1 July, the Chief Representative of our office attended the conference "Universities and the City" organized by the City of Frankfurt and the Goethe University, where he participated in a...
Yokohama-Frankfurt friendship-train service starts in Frankfurt, Germany!
The City of Frankfurt, Germany, which partnered with Yokohama in 2011, celebrated the 10th anniversary of the partnership this year. To commemorate this occasion, the city of Frankfurt launched on...
Nippon Connection 2021: Shadow Theatre Live Performance from Yokohama
Nippon Connection, the largest Japanese film festival outside Japan, was held for the 21st time. After last year's event, the festival was now held online for the second time. From June 1 (Tuesday)...
Online Showcase at ITB 2021
ITB 2021, Europe's largest business-to-business travel trade show, took place from 9 to 12 March. Normally held on-site at the Berlin Exhibition Centre around this time every year, this year was the...
BIO EUROPE 2020 Digital Version – Yokohama Companies
Due to the corona situation, this year’s Bio Europe will be held as digital version from October 26 till 29, 2020. Our office will exhibit digitally and introduce you to Yokohama’s bio-life-science...
BIO-Europe 2020 – International Partnering Conference and Exhibition
Within successful 26 years Bio Europe has become Europe’s largest life science partnering conference. Annually held in rotating locations within Europe, this year’s version was scheduled to take...
Global Festival of Action 2019 in Bonn – SDG best practice example of a company in Yokohama
From 02 to 04 May 2019 the third international conference 'The Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development 2019' took place in Bonn. Since 2017, the Global Festival of Action has provided...
Yokohama at the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice
From December 2 till 14, 2018 the Chief Representative visited the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland. It was the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations...
Best-Practices of the IUC cooperation in Brussel
Yokohama and Frankfurt further deepened their partnership in the field of energy, environment and urban development when in mid-October they met with representatives from this year's 80 cities...
Yokohama follows the hydrogen mission to the Netherlands
As the City of Yokohama is quite eager in progressing the hydrogen development the Chief Representative went on a hydrogen mission to the Netherlands at the beginning of October, that was initiated...
IUC delegation from Yokohama visits Frankfurt Energy Department
Meeting back in Frankfurt After a delegation of members of the Frankfurt Energy Department had visited Yokohama in April this year for first talks within the framework of the International Urban...
Sustainable Urban Development made in Yokohama and Frankfurt
In July Yokohama and Frankfurt applied for the EU-funded project‚ International Urban Cooperation (IUC). This project links European cities with non-EU cities in a city-pairing for the duration of...