Event Reports

The 2014 Joint Chamber Bonenkai was held on December 11th at the Canadian Embassy in Aoyama Itchome.Hosted by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan, the event drew over 300 guests from the following participating Chambers:

• American Chamber of Commerce in Japan - ACCJ
• British Chamber of...

Canada-Japan Bilateral Business News - December 16th  *** Canada Pension Weighs Talisman Offer as Repsol Nears Deal (Bloomberg, December 16th) Japan’s snap election result: Romping Home (Economist, December 15th) Japan House of Representatives Election Results Map (Yomiyuri, December 15th) Japanese...

Canada-Japan Bilateral Business News - December 9th ***  Japan’s recession deeper than first thought (Globe and Mail, December 7th) Japan and Abenomics: Moment of reckoning (The Economist, December 6th)Yuen Pau Woo on Canada’s connection to Asia: ‘We have to figure out our energy relationship’ ...

Japanese follows English On November 18, 2014 the CCCJ Trade Policy Committee hosted an engagement with Canada’s chief negotiator, Mr. Ian Burney, and Canada’s lead negotiators for Government Procurement and Technical Barriers to Trade, who were in Tokyo for the seventh round of Canada-Japan...

Canada-Japan Bilateral Business News - December 2nd *** Alberta Oil’s 2014 Year in Review (Alberta Oil Magazine, December 1st) Moody's Downgrades Japan On Concerns That Abenomics Could Be Failing (Business Insider, December 1st) Japan November final manufacturing growth eases, still suggests modest...

Canada-Japan Bilateral Business News - November 28th *** Yokogawa Selected as MAC by LNG Canada and Wins Control Systems FEED Order (Oil & Gas, November 28th) Japan Inflation Slows in October (WSJ, November 27th) Air Canada expands introduction of Boeing 787 Dreamliners to more Asia routes from...

Canadian Energy Round-up ・カナダエネルギー・ラウンドアップ   11月25日、在日カナダ商工会議所は,国際石油開発帝石株式会社、シェブロン、ＴＭＩ総合法律事務所、在日カナダ大使館の寛大なご支援のもと、カナダでのエネルギー業界の時事問題、主に液化天然ガス〔ＬＮＧ〕についての特別会議を開催致しました。イベントには、先住民達の関与、最近のテクノロジー開発、日本の買い手視点、ブリデッシュコロンビア州ＬＮＧ所得税の影響に関する、業界問題の専門家をゲストスピーカーとしてお招きしました。この他に、カナダからのスピーカ達による、北米...

November 21, 2014 Canadian Energy Round-up ・カナダエネルギー・ラウンドアップ Tuesday November 25th, 2014@ TMI Associates “Canadian Energy Round-up" On November 25th the CCCJ will hold a special afternoon conference dealing with current issues in Canadian Energy, with a focus on LNG to be attended by most of the...

Canada-Japan Bilateral Business News - November 19th *** Japan’s Economy: About that Debt (Economist, November 18th) Trade Minister's trip gets B.C. "on equal footing" for exporting to Asia (Vancouver Observer, November 18th) Bank of Japan meets as economic slump, tax delay cast doubt over outlook ...

Canada-Japan Bilateral Business News - November 11th *** What Is The Trans-Pacific Partnership And Why Does It Matter? (IBI Times, November 10th) Asia-Pacific trade deal getting closer, world leaders say (Maclean’s, November 10th) Chuck Chiang: YVR looks to take its Gateway role to next level ...

The CCCJ Chair and Vice-Chair at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Remembrance Day weekend. "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity." - Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and 34th President...

Canada-Japan Bilateral Business News - November 7th *** Japan’s Economy: Big bazookas (The Economist, November 7th) Honda to invest $857 million in Alliston (Toronto Star, November 6th) Japanese gaming firm gumi Inc. opens office in Vancouver (Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, November...