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With our 57th annual Joint Business Conference (JBC) being held in Osaka this year we turn our expert focus on the Kansai area, which also includes the major population centres of Kobe and Kyoto, both just a 30 minute train ride from Osaka.
07 March, 2019
The South Australian Government has announced this enthusiastic initiative, which is intended to increase opportunities between the State and Japan. Having on the ground representation is seen as key to leveraging bilateral business connections.
07 March, 2019

With such proactive endeavours and their long history in space innovation, they are a market to which enterprises should turn their attention. Interestingly, Japan leads the way in some specific areas of space technology development. For example, last year, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency...

07 March, 2019
AJBCC member company Herbert Smith Freehills will shortly release an analysis of the number and extent of recent Japanese M&A activity in Australia. The report will show continuing sector diversification by Japanese investors in Australia, a trend which has been in evidence over the last few years.
07 March, 2019

On 30 December 2018, while most of us were enjoying the summer break, a most important trade treaty came into force. The TTP-11, officially known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, came about as a result of revived discussions amongst the initial...

05 February, 2019

The 57th Joint Business Conference between member companies of the AJBCC and our Tokyo counterpart, the JABCC, will be held in Osaka from Monday to Wednesday 7–9 October 2019 (please note the conference will commence on a Monday, unlike Sunday as is customary). Accommodation information will...

05 February, 2019

Synonymous with paper distribution in Australia, the ASX-listed Spicers Limited is in the process of being acquired by Japan’s Kokusai Pulp & Paper. The country's second largest paper supplier, KPP was founded in 1924 as Daido Yoshiten Ltd; in 1971, it established an Australian subsidiary. Following mergers in Japan,...

05 February, 2019

Medical applications and devices are an expanding area of Australia-Japan business. The ASX-listed Starpharma’s core technology is “built around dendrimers, a type of synthetic nanoscale polymer that is highly regular in size and structure, and well-suited to pharmaceutical and medical uses.” Starpharma has announced it's...

05 February, 2019

Did last year mark the start of a new opportunity for collaboration in Australia-Japan business? We saw the amazing Japanese technical feat of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) launching two rovers from their mothership Hayabusa2 (Hayabusa is "Falcon" in Japanese) and successfully land them onto...

05 February, 2019

Reiichiro Takahashi has been appointed as our new Ambassador and arrived in Australia last month. Following in the steps of his predecessor, Ambassador Sumio Kusaka, Ambassador Takahashi’s previous assignment was as Ambassador and Consul-General of Japan in New York. Outside of the US, he's had overseas...

05 February, 2019