Prime Minister Fumio Kishida elected October 2021 (Wikipedia)
Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida is really high on Israel and Startup Nation in general and believes that if Israel and Japan work together the two nations can help make the world a better place. The Prime Minister’s remarks came via a video address to the Israel-Japan Conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
In 2022, Israel and Japan celebrated the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Since then, explained Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the two nations have established relations in a variety of areas including economics and culture.
“In particular,” he said, “economic relations between the two countries have strengthened significantly over the past decade. For example, the number of Japanese companies with offices in Israel has tripled in the past 10 years to nearly 90 today.”
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And Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is clearly very much impressed by just about every aspect of Israeli society and the Israeli people themselves adding, “One thing Israel and Japan have in common is that their people are a resource. I am convinced that the people of both countries can solve the world’s social issues by pooling their wisdom and working together to invent and develop various technologies.”
The Israel-Japan Conference going on this week in Tokyo is sponsored by Calcalist and Israel Discount Bank. The sponsors say the event “aims to connect the Israeli and the Japanese business community.”
The conference deals with the next trends in the world of technology, the sectors that took a leap forward and those that received an opportunity to reassess their course. The conference brings together the brilliant minds behind some of the best technologies, companies, projects, and communities from both countries and help them step into the future of tech.
Million Steps, a Tokyo-based boutique consulting firm, is now set to bring a delegation of business leaders to visit Israel on what the firm calls an innovation mission. The visit is intended to foster strategic partnerships, learn about new cutting-edge technologies being developed in Israel and “facilitate knowledge exchange between two powerhouses in the global innovation landscape.”
