Ukraine is an IT country with many talented IT professionals. Even after the Russian invasion, many IT startups have continued to grow through friendly competition, and JICA had been promoting business support for Ukrainian startups since 2022, but was interrupted when the Russian invasion began. It resumed this past April after more than a year,…
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MHI and UN-HABITAT Signs Letter of Intent for Collaboration and Cooperation – Strengthening Collaborative Efforts to Achieve the SDGs to Solve Urban and Regional Development Challenges ｜ News & Media
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for collaboration and cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) Fukuoka Headquarters for the Asia-Pacific region on July 7. The LOI was signed at JICA Shikoku in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture, in the presence of UN-HABITAT Secretary General Maimunah Mohamed Sharif…
JICA Mongolia Chair: Special Lecture on Japan’s Development Experience on Industrial Development and Social Security ｜ News & Media
summary JICA Chair Special Lecture by Associate Professor Gaku Funabashi, International University of Japan Date: Monday, May 15, 2023 Location: National University of Mongolia Main participants: about 100 people including President Dendev Badarchi of the National University of Mongolia, Japanese Ambassador to Mongolia Hiroyuki Kobayashi, JICA Mongolia Office Director Shinichi Tanaka, and university students of…
Signing of Minutes of Discussion on Technical Cooperation Project for Vietnam: Contributing to Improvement of Food Inspection Capability ｜ News & Media
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Record of Discussions (R/D) with the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam on July 20 in Hanoi, an agreement on the technical cooperation project “Strengthening Food Safety Inspection, Reference Function and Consulting Capacity for Sustainable Agricultural Development”. Discussions (R/D), an agreement on the technical cooperation…
First JICA Chair Lecture in Algeria ｜ News & Media
Outline Conference Title: 1st JICA Chair Short-term Intensive Course (Algeria): Political Diplomacy of Postwar Japan Date: Thursday, June 22, 2023 Organized by Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) and JICA Location: ENA (in Algiers) main participants Abdelmalik Mezouda ENA Rector Akira Kono, Ambassador of Japan to Algeria Mustafa Ha’am, Director, National Institute of Population and Development (*representing…
Ride the Skyliner and enter to win one of 1,000 “Prince Keisei” goods, played by Kento Nakajima!
Keisei Electric Railway is running the “Refreshing Summer Trip with Keisei Prince Campaign” featuring Kento Nakajima (Sexy Zone). Among those who ride the Keisei Skyliner and enter on the special page, 500 winners drawn by lottery will receive an original QUO card (worth 1,000 yen) featuring the PR character “Keisei Oji” played by Mr. Nakajima,…
Satofuru explains the latest trend of Furusato tax payment in the first half of 2023. Key words are “high prices” and “travel x hometown tax payment
On July 18, the hometown tax payment website Satofuru introduced in Tokyo the trends of hometown tax payments and the latest thank-you gift trends for the first half of 2023. The “Satofuru App de One-Stop Application” is a system (free of charge) that allows users to complete applications online with a my number card and…
G-SHOCK x POTR, first collaboration based on the DW-5900
Yoshida Kaban will release a collaboration model of “G-SHOCK” and “POTR” on July 21, celebrating the 40th anniversary. The price is 22,000 yen. It is based on the “DW-5900,” which was released in 1994 and ushered in the G-Shock boom, and uses the “turquoise blue” that symbolizes POTR throughout the body. The POTR logo appears…
Tokyo Disney Resort launches items that allow you to create your own 40th Anniversary memories by combining parts.
Tokyo Disney Resort will release a new 40th anniversary special merchandise item on August 17: the Moments Go Round, which allows visitors to combine their favorite parts to form their own memories. The Moments Go Round has two Mickey-shaped bases, with silhouettes of the symbols of both Land and Sea Parks (Cinderella Castle and Prometheus…
ANA and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to Upcycle Aircraft Engine Scrap. Limited edition “one-of-a-kind” products for daily use, such as business card holders and passcases, are on sale.
ANA and Kawasaki Heavy Industries have jointly developed upcycled products that utilize Boeing 787 engine blade scraps and scraps and surplus materials from the aircraft manufacturing process, and have begun selling them at the ANA Exciting Shop on the ANA Mall e-commerce site. Kawasaki has a history of more than 100 years in aircraft manufacturing,…