Event Reports

Thank you for joining the CCCJ and our eleven partner chambers at the 2016 Joint Chamber Bonenkai. We had a wonderful evening and have received great and positive feedback from many of you. Thanks to the generosity of Miyamoto-san, who donated half of her 50/50 winnings, the Bonenkai raised nearly...

Premier Kathleen Wynne and a delegation of over 70 senior business leaders from Ontario spent a week visiting Japan and South Korea in an attempt to lure jobs and investment to the province. Two-way trade between Japan and Ontario was more than $11 billion last year alone. The delegation signed...

In collaboration with CCCJ member ReDev Properties and Trowbridge, the CCCJ hosted two tax seminars for Canadian expats living in Japan at the Tokyo American Club on November 28th and 29th. The seminar advised Canadians on property investment in Canada, tax regulations and concerns, as well as...

On Sunday November 13, the sun beat down on the immaculate rows of graves, graves framed by red rose bushes that seemed poppies dancing in a cordial breeze. Ministers from four faiths, a dozen or so embassies and various organizations, such as the CCCJ turned up at the Hodogawa Cemetery in Yokohama...

November 8, 2016 - Tokyo News topics for this week:  Nikon slashing jobs, Toyota bets big on electric vehicles, stealthy planes for Japan, $10 billion for a casino in Japan, Canadian CEO's pay packages, more free trade news, Bill and Hillary Clinton (because we can't get enough of the US election)...

Canada-Japan Bilateral Business News  November 1, 2016 - Tokyo News topics for this week: Only 170 years to get rid of the global gender gap, a trade surplus for Japan, government may say sayōnara to Tepco's nuclear business, 20 million visitors to Japan last year and Anthony Bourdainexplains why...

Canada-Japan Bilateral Business News  October 25th, 2016 - Tokyo News topics for this week:  LDP to extend term limit; Japan's Koseki system;  CETA's fate may hang on the Wallons; Toyota markets FC Bus; Japan's exports down 10% for half-year; Canada more room to run deficits; Ontario to import...

CCCJ News October 18th, 2016 - Tokyo News topics for this week: Free trade, free trade and free trade, cyber security and the G7, Japan selling Kyushu Rail while mulling joint administration of Russian-held isles, Japan could look at reforming the Chrysanthemum Throne, Canadian government...

Dear CCCJ Members, News topics for this week: Canada’s GDP fortunes looking up and its economy is churning out jobs, a new magnesium battery, oil hits one-year high, new fixed pricing for taxis, promoting womens' careers in Japan, the realities of globalization, an IPO for your winter coat, the...

- CCCJ News - October 5th, 2016 Dear CCCJ Members, News topics for this week:  Japanese wins Nobel prize; IoT to revitalize Japanese manufacturers;Toyota & Daihatsu target emerging markets in new way; Mitsui to acquire coal interest; Robots give direction; Yahoo Japan and vast ID theft...