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In 1995 the Texas Center’s board of directors voted to build a home for its programs and activities. The Board selected Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, best known in this country for his renovation and expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to design the building, located in Houston’s Museum District. The building was ...
There are more than sixty Chamber committees, subcommittees, task forces, and advisory councils that cover such diverse areas as: financial services, corporate social responsibility, marketing, independent business, healthcare services, e-business, transportation and logistics, legal services, the travel industry, and human resource management. [3]
Japan External Trade Organization (日本貿易振興機構, Nihon Bōeki Shinkōkikō, also ジェトロ; JETRO) is an Independent Administrative Institution established by Japan Export Trade Research Organization as a nonprofit corporation in Osaka in February 1952, reorganized under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1958 (later the Ministry of Economy, Trade and ...
The Tomodachi Initiative is a public–private partnership between the U.S.-Japan Council and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, with support from the Government of Japan.Born out of support for Japan’s recovery from the Great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011, Tomodachi invests in the next generation of Japanese and American leaders through educational and cultural exchanges as well as ...
The Japanese economic crisis of the 1990s helped, too. There were several changes in wholesaling and retailing in the 1980s. Japan's distribution system was becoming more efficient. Retail outlets and wholesale establishments both peaked in number in 1982 and then went down 5.4 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively, in 1985.
Ichirō Fujisaki, former Japanese ambassador to the United States, currently member of the Board of Directors of Itochu; Hiroyuki Nagahama, member of the House of Representatives and Environment Minister in 2012, worked for Itochu early in his professional career; Uichirō Niwa, president from 1998 to 2004, later Japanese ambassador to China
The Japan Business Federation (日本経済団体連合会, Nippon Keizai-dantai Rengōkai) is an economic organization founded in May 2002 by amalgamation of Keidanren (経 済 団 体 連 合会, Japan Federation of Economic Organizations, established 1946; name sometimes used alone as abbreviation for whole organization) and Nikkeiren (日 本 経 営者団体 連 盟, Japan Federation of ...
The Japan America Society of Houston is an educational society established in Houston, Texas on May 19, 1968. its mission is "To bring the people of the United States and Japan closer together in appreciation and understanding of each other".