The Group of Heritage Cities and Paradores are presented in Japan
The Group of World Heritage Cities of Spain and the accommodation chain Paradores made a presentation of their tourist offer in Japan last month. More than thirty tourism companies from the Asian country attended the presentation, which took place at the Embassy of Spain in Tokyo. The president of the Group of Cities and mayor […]
Japanese company Orix acquires 100% of Elawan Energy
The Japanese company Orix Corporation announced the agreement to acquire an additional 20% stake in Elawan Energy, after which Elawan will be 100% owned by Orix. Once the transaction, scheduled for early 2023, is completed, Elawan will continue to be led by its founder and CEO, Dionisio Fernández. Headquartered in Spain, Elawan operates in 14 […]
Euskadi shows its gastronomic tourism in Japan
Within the framework of the VII UNWTO World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism, a delegation from Basquetour, the Basque Tourism Agency, made an institutional visit to Japan. The congress, which the Basque Country hosts in alternate years, took place in the Japanese city of Nara between 12 and 15 December. The delegation was led by the […]
New call for Vulcanus in Japan Scholarships
The Vulcanus program in Japan of the European Union has launched a new edition for the 2023-2024 academic year. It consists of a series of grants that allow EU students to carry out industrial internships in Japanese companies. This programme is funded by the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation and participating Japanese companies. The objectives […]
A copy of the Cibeles and costumes of Don Quixote: this is the Spanish amusement park that triumphs in Japan
It is well known that Japan has a special admiration for Spain. Beyond our gastronomy, where delicacies such as ham or wine make the Japanese fall in love, tradition, culture or history are other aspects that dazzle the country of the rising sun. So much so, that this has its reflection and explanation in the […]
“JAPAN DESU”, the avant-garde of Japanese design in Madrid
Between October 4th and December 4th, 2022, “JAPAN DESU” took place in Madrid, a DIMAD project that, with the main collaboration of Nissan and the institutional collaboration of the Culture and Tourism Area of the Madrid City Council, has included exhibitions, conferences, professional meetings and workshops with the aim of bringing the best of Japanese […]
The Japan-Spain Business Circle awards Balfegó and Toyota in its VI Keicho Awards
In its sixth edition of the renowned Keicho Awards for Innovation and Technology, the Japan-Spain Business Circle (CEJE) has awarded Balfegó as a Spanish company, and Toyota as a Japanese company for their contribution in the last year in the fields of technology and innovation with projects that promote sustainability in their respective sectors. Balfegó […]
The University of Salamanca hosts the X Meeting of Asian Studies 2022
The University of Salamanca, in collaboration with Casa Asia, has hosted today the X Meeting of Asian Studies 2022. The meeting, inaugurated by the rector, Ricardo Rivero, accompanied by Javier Parrondo, general director of Casa Asia, brought together representatives of Spanish universities with offers of Asian studies (undergraduate or graduate) and oriental languages who shared […]
Valfortec inaugurates a new office space in Tokyo
The Castellón renewable energy company Valfortec has recently opened its new offices in Japan. Due to the high demand that has been experienced during the last months, it has had to adapt and enable a wider and innovative new space. Valfortec’s new administrative center in the Japanese capital is in a coworking space located at […]
Endesa X designs a heat recovery system for Showa Denko that will achieve savings of up to 70% in gas and electricity
Endesa X has developed a heat recovery system for the Japanese multinational Showa Denko, the world’s largest supplier of high-power graphite electrodes, for its production plant in Spain, located in the A Grela industrial estate in A Coruña. This system takes advantage of the thermal energy lost in the cooking stage of graphite electrodes, which […]