(November 25th 2016) Relationships between Italy and Japan are strengthens, exports to Japan marked a record level with an increase of 14.4% over the same period last year and imports in our country grew 45.2%. Italy confirms itself as the third largest European trading partner after Germany and France mainly thanks to fashion, medication and drugs, tobacco and leather goods. With this positive scenario has opened today the XXVIII Plenary Assembly of Italy Japan Business Group (IJBG), the group is promoted by Italian and Japanese business communities to improve industrial cooperation between the two countries. The event, organized by ICE (agency for promotion abroad and internationalization of Italian companies), in collaboration with Leonardo-Finmeccanica, City of Milan, is planned in three days with the goal of highlighting the importance of the progress achieved thanks to the permanent dialogue platform. The assembly – with a particular focus on sectors with high value of innovation and technologies such as mechanical, aerospace, transport and design – was attended, among others, by Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Benedetto Della Vedova, the Japanese Deputy Minister of International Affairs, Economy, Trade and Industry Hirofumi Katase, and the president of ICE Michele Scannavini, who recalled the recent opening of Investments Attraction Desk in Tokyo and the initiatives increase for Asian countries. (Red)
