Archive

Gender Balance Survey from DSM

You have been invited to participate in this questionnaire about gender balance from DSM. We greatly appreciate your willingness to participate and your effort. We hope to be able to develop a benchmark about the gender balance in organizations in Japan.

News from Members: Schenker-Seino

Get a taste of fresh forwarding opportunities
Perishable goods are our spotlight during 6th-9th March at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba. Schenker-Seino will present its solutions to the food and beverage industry at the largest exhibition in Asia: FoodEx.

METI questionnaire on consumption tax labelling

METI has sent out a survey regarding the possible increase in consumption tax
and how companies plan to label their prices. As you might know the presented
plan calls for an increase from the current 5% to 8% from April 2014 and an
additional 2 percentage point from October 2015.

Unfortunately the questionnaire is only in Japanese so far. The deadline is set
for 25 May however METI appreciates answers before 11 May. Please note that your individual
answers will not be made public but all answers will be complied into one EBC
answer.
Please login to download the questionnaire and send your replies to the NCCJ office.

JNS Salon Concert

JNS invites us to Salon Concert, "Amber Docters van Leeuwen Cello Concert" on 10th September.

"We, JNS are delighted to welcome Ms. Amber Docters van Leeuwen, cellist, introduced by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to our salon concert.

Mercedes-Benz Japan Cup in 2011

Please find the following information from MBJ Cup Taskforce: 

We are pleased to announce that the 9th North America - Europe Golf Challenge in Japan, the Mercedes-Benz Japan Cup, will be played on Friday, September 30, at the same venue as in previous years, the Atsugi Kokusai Country Club in Kanagawa Prefecture. As always, we expect to have approximately 72 players on both teams.