Tokyo – Japan and Friuli Venezia Giulia get closer. The development of a series of strategic partnerships in research, tourism, agribusiness and port connections: this is, in fact, the aim of the institutional mission in Japan that from October 2 to 5 will see protagonist the vice president and productive activity and tourism assessor of Friuli Venezia Giulia Sergio Bolzonello, who will be accompanied, among others, by the Trieste Area Science Park Marketing director, Stephen Taylor. Within a busy schedule, vice president Bolzonello will travel in the area of the Shizouka Prefecture, about 150 kilometers from Tokyo, home to more than 3 million 700 thousand inhabitants (and one of the areas with the highest living standard in the country). the agenda sees a series of meetings with the highest local authorities on issues of industrial and technological cooperation, as well as the organization of joint initiatives in the fields of tourism, enogastronomy and civil protection. (9Colonne)