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Kanagawa prefecture’s natural flavors featured in new Japanese food box by Kokoro Care Packages
Kanagawa Prefecture’s natural foods are being featured by Kokoro Care Packages, a company which provides subscription services for people who live outside Japan but love Japanese food. Among the new...
Giant (59ft) robot Gundam on display in Yokohama, Japan
10/11/2022 Travel Update As of today, October 11th 2022, Japan has fully re-opened its borders to international travelers and relaxed its visa requirements to pre-COVID-19 status! We hope this will...
BioJapan, Asia’s largest bio partnering and business event, went hybrid for 2020
The 22nd annual BioJapan conference, Asia’s largest bio business and partnering event, was held this year in a hybrid format for the first time. Every year the event is held in Pacifico Yokohama, a...
Yokohama joins Maryland Life Sciences’ Bio Innovation Conference through Kanagawa virtual trade delegation
Three Yokohama-based companies will be participating in this year’s Bio Innovation Conference, hosted by Maryland Life Sciences, a division of the Maryland Tech Council. The startups will be joining...
4 new startups chosen for CONNECT’s world-class mentoring Yokohama 2020 Springboard Program
San Diego is one of the nation's leading start-up support regions with more than $3.47 Billion in venture capital investment in 2019. The City of Yokohama has partnered again with CONNECT w/ San...
Yokohama ranks top 5 globally in FDI Strategy according to new report
In a report titled “Tier 2 Cities of the Future 2020/21” published by fDi Intelligence, the City of Yokohama ranked in the top 10 secondary cities in the world in the FDI strategy category, claiming...
‘Zero Carbon’ achieved at New Yokohama City Hall Building
In one of its largest city-wide projects ever, Yokohama City has taken the initiative to replace all power consumed within city-owned facilities with renewable energy by 2050 as part of its new...
Yokohama selected as one of Japan’s ‘global startup cities’
Yokohama City, alongside and as part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Consortium, has been selected as one of four “Global Startup Cities” by the Japanese Government. The Tokyo Metropolitan Consortium is...
SDG Leadership Cities Third Convening: Toward recovery from COVID-19 through the perspective of SDGs
The Office of the City of Yokohama Rep. to the Americas participated as the representative of Yokohama city in the third convening of the SDG Leadership Cities Network hosted for the first time...
Japanese life science companies seek partnering opportunities as BIO International Convention goes Digital for 2020
The BIO International Convention (this year "BIO Digital 2020") is an annual convention held in the US that brings together life science companies of all sizes to network, discuss, and learn from...
YOXO BOX and Yokohama National University advancing collaborations
YOXO BOX, a startup growth center located in Yokohama’s Kannai area, started collaborations in April with Yokohama National University (YNU) through the university’s Co-Innovation Laboratory. The...
Interlocal cooperation during the COVID-19 crisis
Like many other nations around the world currently, Japan has been experiencing a shortage of surgical masks due to the spread of COVID-19 throughout the country. In an attempt to remedy this...