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About GBMC
GBMC (Global Business & Management Consulting):
Based in Paris area, we are a proactive Professional Service Provider and Consultancy specialized in the following three domains:
1) EU-Japan Business Consulting (Consultancy, Import-Export, Training & Translation).
2) General Business Consulting (Business Coaching, Technical Markets Consulting)
3) Management Consulting (Interim Management, Transition Management)
Please check www.gbmc.biz for details

a Japanese Robot on the Moon?
Read more from:
Japan is going to the Moon!! and
Maido-kun humanoid robot to the moon
We need an update on the status of the Maido-kun project (a humanoid robot to be developed by SOHLA in Higashi-Osaka) but JAXA is definitely targeting the Moon! Which wonders will Japanese fine precision technologies deliver? What do you think?
Leave a comment | tags: aerospace industry, GBMC, Higashi-Osaka, humanoid robot, Japan, Japan aerospace, Japan aerospace firms, Japanese robotics, Japanese robots, Japanese technology, JAXA, Maido, Maido-kub, Moon, robotics, SOHLA | posted in Business, Japan, Technology
Check out http://gbmc.biz! Business Consultants specialised in Europe Japan business consulting, Japan cross cultural Training, Technical Markets, B2B Strategy, Transition, Change
Source: Home Page, GBMC, Global Business – Management Consulting
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Japan as a gate to Asian markets
Act on Special Measures for the Promotion of Research and Development Business, etc. by Specified Multinational Enterprises
Act for Promotion of Japan as an Asian Business Center (Source: METI)
Key Investment Incentives are:
- Income tax breaks
- Assistance for fund raising
- Acceleration of patent examinations
- Reduction of patent fees
- Shortened investment procedures
- Acceleration of status of residency examinations
Read more from:
Act for Promotion of Japan as an Asian Business Center
http://www.meti.go.jp/english/policy/external_economy/investment/pdf/130612_01b.pdf
Also check “Incentives Programs – Investing in Japan”:
Incentives for promoting investment in Japan
Japan’s Retail Market still being a “mecca” for the other Asian markets, it is clear that the country is a gate to Asian markets for EU and US companies. What would be, according to you, other reasons for that?
Leave a comment | tags: asian business centre, GBMC, hub for the Asian market, Invest in Japan, Japan, METI, Promotion of Japan as an Asian Business Center | posted in Business, Invest, Japan

Robotic Village Tokyo 2020 (Source – Japan Science and Technology Ministry).
“Japan will use the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to showcase its robotics technology and give visitors a sense of a futuristic society where humans are waited on hand and foot by robots.
A committee of the science and technology ministry that was formed Sept. 15 proposed setting up a robotic village in time for the Games as part of an initiative toward a “universal future society” where robots and information technologies that assist humans regardless of age, nationality or disabilities are commonplace.” (The Asahi Shimbun)
More details from: A Robotic Village in Tokyo by 2020?
Will this cutting-edge Innovation be to the Tokyo Olympics 2020 what the “Tokaido Shinkansen” (Bullet Train) was to the first Tokyo Olympics in 1964? What can we expect to see? What do you think?
Leave a comment | tags: GBMC, Japan, robot revolution realization council, Robot Revolution?, robotic village, robotics, Robotics in Japan, robotics technology, robots, Tokyo, Tokyo Olympics 202 | posted in Business, Japan, Technology

Je suis Paris (Source – BILD.de)
With all our condolences and support to the families of the victims!
GBMC (Paris)
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Press Release from Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation & Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
“The First Flight Schedule of MRJ
Nagoya, November 10, 2015 –
三菱航空機と三菱重工が進める、日本初のジェット旅客機「MRJ(三菱リージョナルジェット)」の初飛行について、県営名古屋空港から離陸と着陸の様子をライブ中継いたします。
三菱航空機および三菱重工は、MRJ飛行試験機初号機の初飛行を、11月11日(水)午前に実施することとしました。
なお、飛行試験は、安全をすべてに優先させて実施し、今後の機体状況及び天候状況等によっては、予定が変更となる可能性もあります。
Mitsubishi Aircraft and MHI will broadcast the “MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet) First Flight Live” streaming , especially the takeoff and landing from Nagoya Airfield, Japan.
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) today jointly announced that the first flight of the first flight test aircraft of the MRJ is scheduled to take place in the morning of November 11.
In implementing the flight test, utmost priority will be given to safety.The flight schedule is subject to change if deemed necessary due to conditions relating to the aircraft, weather, etc.”
Live webcast is scheduled at the following sites, to show takeoff and landing on the day of the first flight:
Website URL: www.flythemrj.com
Live webcast (USTREAM): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/NtahYVsFWxG
Looking forward to seeing that!
The GBMC Team
Leave a comment | tags: aerospace industry, GBMC, Japan, Japan aerospace, Japan aerospace firms, MHI, mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Aircraft, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Regional Jet, MRJ, regional jets | posted in Business, Japan, Technology
Check out http://gbmc.biz! Europe Japan Industrial Relations, GBMC, GBMC Publication, Europe Japan Consulting, Europe Japan Relations, Japan Industries, European Industries
Source: Europe Japan Industrial Relations
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SHARP LCD screens
SHARP losses over 4½ years top $10 billion !
“The maker of screens for Apple Inc.’s iPhones posted a loss of ¥83.6 billion in the six months ended September as the Chinese smartphone market slowed. Display sales dropped 15 percent.
Sharp has trudged from one crisis to another over the last four years after lower-cost Asian rivals undercut its core business making liquid-crystal display TVs. Banks accepted shares in the company earlier this year after it defaulted on debt payments, and it remains dependent on its main lenders Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. for survival.
“The problem with Sharp is it doesn’t have a core business with which it can look to the future,” said Mana Nakazora, the chief credit analyst in Tokyo at BNP Paribas SA. “All it can do is shrink its operations further.” (The Japan Times)
Read more from: About SHARP Corp’s losses
Is exiting or spinning off Audio-Video/Electronics/SemiCon/Display businesses, together with diversifying into other/new business domains, the only option left to Japanese Manufacturers? What do you think?
Leave a comment | tags: AV, display business, GBMC, Japan, Japanese audio-video industry, LCD display, PANASONIC, Plasma display, semicon, SHARP, SHARP losses, Sony, TV business | posted in Business, Japan, Technology

Japanese MAGLEV (Magnetic Levitation) Trains

Hitachi’s trains (source: Hitachi.com)
<Announcement>
Mass-Trans Innovation Japan 2015 (MTI Japan 2015)
International Trade Fair for “Railways” Technology
Dates: November 11 (Wed.) – 13 (Fri.), 2015 10:00 – 17:00
Venue: MAKUHARI MESSE (Chiba, Japan)
According to the organisers:
“Mass-Trans Innovation Japan” is a comprehensive trade show specialised in railways technology in Japan.
The 3rd “Mass-Trans Innovation Japan” was held in 2013, and concluded with great success with 328 exhibitors and 19,221 visitors.
This trade show is expected to promote railway, its related industries, and active international exchange as well as to contribute to the development of industry and improvement of science technology.
Read more from: MTI Japan 2015
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Why Japan? : 5 reasons to invest in JAPAN (according to JETRO)
- Japan’s Re-emergence
- Sophisticated Market
- Innovation Hub
- Business Friendly Infrastructure
- Comfortable Living
Read more from: Why Japan?
Also check: Incentives for promoting investment in Japan:
Incentives for promoting investment in Japan
For us, Japan is also a formidable Retail Laboratory for your B2C Products/Services and a key gate to Asian Markets !!!
According to you, what would be other good reasons?
Leave a comment | tags: business infrastructure in Japan, doing business with Japan, GBMC, Innovation in Japan, Invest in Japan, Japan, Japan re-emergence, JETRO, Why Japan? | posted in Business, Invest, Japan