New Year's Reception for the Japanese Business Community in Düsseldorf and NRW
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Mayor Thomas Geisel, the Japanese Consul General Ryuta Mizuuchi and Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, Minister of Economy and Digitalization of NRW, welcomed the guests.
... City of Düsseldorf and the State of North-Rhine Westphalia stress the strong cooperation with Japan in the field of digitalization
Approximately 250 guests, among them many representatives of Japanese companies and institutions in Dusseldorf and NRW, have accepted the invitation to the New Year’s Reception for the Japanese Business Community on Thursday, January 18th at the Rheinterrasse. The event was hosted by the State Capital of Düsseldorf, the Office of Economic Development of the City of Dusseldorf, the Ministry for Economy, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia and NRW.INVEST.
Mayor Thomas Geisel, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, Minister of Economy and Digitalization of NRW, as well as the Japanese Consul General Ryuta Mizuuchi welcomed the guests.
In his greeting words, Mayor Thomas Geisel emphasized: "2017 was a very eventful year for the German-Japanese relations in Dusseldorf. One highlight was definitely the Düsseldorf Evening in Tokyo with more than 1.000 representatives of Japanese companies and institutions. 2017 was also a successful year for the Japanese business location of Düsseldorf, as we were able to win another number of new and especially innovative Japanese companies to set up their business in our city. Moreover, we were able to celebrate expansions of already established Japanese enterprises in Düsseldorf."
The New Year’s Reception, which has been taking place since 1988, is a symbol for the special significance of the Japanese economic presence in Dusseldorf and North-Rhine Westphalia. Every year anew it is an impressive demonstration of the friendly relations between the City of Dusseldorf, the State of North-Rhine Westphalia and the Japanese Community. The New Year’s Reception for the Japanese business community is a distinctive feature and unique event of Düsseldorf just as the “Düsseldorf Evening in Tokyo” and the “Japan Day Düsseldorf/NRW”, which is the biggest binational Japan festival in the world.