Chase away the rainy season with ICCJ’s exciting new event “Bollicine e Patatine”! Date: Tuesday, June 13th Time: 18:30 – 21:00 Venue: Italian Chamber of Commerce in Japan Address: FBR Mita 9F, 4-1-27 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073 Admission: Free (Limited to 100 people!) Pre-register HERE **Drinks available for purchase: starting from 500 yen Please note…
Join us on June 7th at Bulgari Ristorante Ginza “La Terrazza Lounge” for an exclusive rooftop cocktail party to celebrate the arrival of summer. Enjoy a delectable selection of hors-d’oeuvres crafted by renowned Chef Luca Fantin, accompanied by the finest Italian bubbles and wines. Let our summer-chillout DJ set the mood as you take in…
On Sunday, April 23rd, several municipalities in Japan held local elections, marking the second round of quadrennial elections. Voters casted their ballots to decide the mayors for 88 cities, chiefs for 12 of Tokyo’s 23 wards, and assembly members in 294 cities and 21 Tokyo wards. Sunday was also the day of by-elections for five…
The April appointment of Aperitivo della Camera is here! This month’s Aperitivo della Camera will be held at Storie d’Italia in Hibiya OKUROJI, Chiyoda-ku! Let’s have fun with Italian buffet and drinks before the Golden Week! Date: Friday, April 28 Time: 18:00 – 21:00 Venue: Storie d’Italia Address: 1-7-1 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011 Admission: ICCJ…
In every Japanese office, in the period going from February to May, there is at least one colleague who cannot help but keep sneezing, coughing, nose-blowing, and generally feeling pretty bad every day. The cause is the feared kafunsho season, the hay fever problem that every year affects millions of people in Japan. The reason…
Visit us on April 26 for an unique opportunity to taste the winning EVOOs of the Japan Olive Oil Prize 2023. Just walk-in and try different EVOOs from 22 countries, including Brazil, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Tunisia, USA. Many of them have not yet been imported into the Japanese market! We look…
Samurai Japan have won. Last Wednesday, March 22nd, The Japan National Baseball Team defeated the defending champions, Team USA, in a 3-2 victory gaining their 3rd World Baseball Classic title, the first since 2009. The final was a great showdown, with the two best teams in the world facing each other, and the 9th and…
The first time we heard the words “Metaverse” and “Japan” used in the same sentence was last October, when Japan PM Fumio Kishida announced a plan for the country to invest into a new era of digital transformation, based on NFT and the Web 3.0, the third generation of the World Wide Web. The Metaverse…
On March 13th, COVID-19 guidelines on mask wearing in Japan will be drastically eased. In a press conference held last Friday, President Fumio Kishida and his COVID-19 task force announced the new policies, created in response to the drop in COVID-19 cases of the past months and the consequent downgrade of the disease to a…
Last Tuesday was Valentine’s Day, and Japan, like many other countries, celebrated this lovers’ festivity. Here, though, the celebration comes with a twist (or we would better say two?): in Japan, only the women give chocolate as a present, and they don’t just give it to the loved one, but to all the men in…
