September, 2007 & November, 2007
Kobe Medical Industry Development Project
Kobe Medical Industry Development Project (Power Point file)
Kobe Medical Industry Development Project (Power Point file)
March, 2007
Next Generation Super Computer will be in Port Island Second Stage in Kobe
RIKEN (Independent Administrative Institution under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) decided to build the Next Generation Super Computer Institution in Kobe. For more Information on this subject please visit http://www.nsc.riken.jp/index-eng.html
October, 2007
Kobe Medical Industry Development Project was introduced by Society for Biomolecular Sciences
This time, our projects are introduced in SBS News paper. It is a first time for us to be in this paper. Currently, there are over 110 companies established in the Kobe Medical Cluster and 11 core facilities which are supported by the Japanese National Government. The medical field in Japan has ranked the Kobe Medical Cluster as Japan?fs No.1 renowned cluster. For reading this article please download PDF file.
SBS News (PDF file)
September 18, 2007
International Life Science Partnership Forum
TRI Center, Kobe, Japan
The aim of the International Life Science Partnering Forum Kobe is to build bridges to international Life Science Regions with its biomedical clusters and companies. Through this program, participants will benefit by gaining access to executives or directors on business development from the Kansai and Kobe-Hyogo area who are interested in partnerships and licensing opportunities in the U.S., Europe and Pacific-Asia. While the deadline for this forum has already passed, those who are interested in the event or would be available to visit Kobe either prior to or following BIO 2007 in Yokohama (September 19-21) to learn more about partnering in Kobe, please view information online or download PDF file.
September 12, 2006
The International Life Science Partnering
Forum in Kobe, Japan
The aim of the first International Life Science Partnering Forum
Kobe is to build bridges to international life science regions with
its biomedical clusters and companies. Kobe welcomes life science companies,
with their clusters,
to Kobe in order to introduce their companies to the biomedical companies
of Kobe and establish partnerships in Japan.
Company Directory (PDF file)
Second Notice Letter (PDF file)
2005
Kobe Voted Best Overall Medical Cluster
Japan's leading biotech magazine, The Nikkei Biotechnology & Business
Magazine, voted Kobe City as Japan's Number One Medical Cluster in Japan.
May 23, 2008
Kobe Citizen Cruise, Cruise between Seattle and Kobe
Kobe Citizen Cruise Delegation, Ms. Shigeko Tsujimoto and Mr. Nakahiro Furunaga present Kobear and Mayor of Kobe's letter to Port of Seattle Commisioner Gael Tarleton after passage on a Cruise ship, Rhapsody of the Seas boarding from Kobe to Seattle. Kobear is a gift from Kobe to Seattle to represent their sister city relationship. Kobear is the bear cub son of a Kobe mother bear and a Seattle father bear, and on this trip Kobear retraced his father's voyage to Seattle. Kobear is currently on temporary display in the Commission Office of Seattle and is expected to have a permanent home on display for the general public soon.
Thomas S. Foley Award
On April 10, 2008 the Japan-America Society of the State of Washington presented the Thomas S. Foley Award to the Seattle-Kobe Public School Teacher and Student Exchange Program at its 2008 Annual Meeting. Former exchange students and teachers of the program were also delighted to be reunited with Mr. Shizuo Takeuchi, a former exchange teacher and representative for the Kobe Board of Education, who flew in from Japan to accept the award on behalf of the City of Kobe Board of Education. The program, which exchanged educators and students from Seattle, Washington and Kobe, Japan, was established in 1958 and lasted until 1998.
April, 2007 - October, 2007
Seattle-Kobe Sister
City 50th Anniversary Events (PDF)
October 11, 2007 - January 6, 2008
Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the sister-city relationship between Seattle and Kobe, Japan, the Seattle Art Museum is organizing an extensive exhibition of significant artworks from Kobe City Museum. Under the mission statement ?gInternational Cultural Exchange between East and West,?h Kobe City Museum has collected western-style Japanese art created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Namban (art influenced by the Spanish and Portuguese) and Komo (art influenced by the Dutch), as well as a wide variety of maps illustrate how Japanese artists in the pre-modern period understood Western arts and cultures?\encounters that helped them obtain a new perspective on the world. Meanwhile, Japanese works were appreciated among the Western people as exotic items, a perception which explains how the Japanese cultural identity was received in the West. Through paintings, prints, maps, lacquerware, ceramics, textiles, glassware and metalware, the exhibition exemplifies not only how the Japanese and Westerners comprehended and appreciated different cultures in the past, but also asks contemporary audiences important questions about how we perceive people and cultures in the present.
September 10, 2007
Kobe Jazz Night
The 8th Annual Kobe Jazz Vocal Queen Contest presents the 2007 Vocal Queen in her Seattle debut at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley. For information on Dimitriou's Jazz Alley please visit their website at www.jazzalley.com. Details to be announced in summer 2007.
April 21-23, 2007
Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival
The oldest cultural festival at Seattle Center, the Seattle Cherry Blossom & Cultural Festival includes dance and music, colorful costumes, martial arts, tea ceremonies and entertaining educational activities. Kids have fun in Center House with toys, games, kite making and kimono dress-up. Immerse yourselves in Japanese culture at this authentic celebration of centuries-old traditions. For more information visit the Seattle Center's website.
April 19, 2007
Eleventh Annual Seattle Sister City Reception
Join us for this year's Eleventh Annual Seattle Sister City Reception at City Hall where Kobe City will be highlighted. We will be celebrating our 50th sister city anniversary between Seattle and Kobe! For more details please visit http://dementad.com/Reception.
March 19, 2007
Third Annual Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition
The Seattle-Kobe Sister City Association (SKSCA) is pleased to announce the 3rd Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition. The SKSCA will send one high school-aged and one adult female jazz vocalist from the greater Seattle area to Kobe, Japan in May 2007 to be a guest singer at the 7th Annual Kobe Jazz Vocal Queen contest. For information on auditioning for this contest or attending the audition please visit the SKSCA's website at http://www.seattlekobe.org/events.htm.
January 16, 2007
Kobe Earthquake Rememberance Ceremony
Join us for the 13th Anniversary of the Kobe Earthquake Rememberance Ceremony at the Kobe Bell in the Seattle Center. Light a candle and watch as we light the lantern in rememberance of the lives lost in this tragedy. For more information on this event contact the SKSCA at info@sksca.org.
Renewed High School Student Exchange Delegation
The City of Kobe revived the high school student exchange program with the Seattle Sea Fair Organization in 2007, after a long hiatus, as part of the 50 year celebration of the sister city relationship between the two cities. The 2007 student exchange delegation was highly successful and is expected to continue. The 2008 Student Delegation Exchange is expected to take place this Fall with the Kobe students to come to Seattle, in September. The Seattle students are expected in Kobe in November.
June 22-25, 2008
Drug Information Association 44th Annual Meeting
KTIO will be at Booth #1653 at the DIA annual meeting in Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for information about the Kobe Medical Industry Development Project.
April 12-13, 2008
Washington, D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival
KTIO will join JETRO at their booth for the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.
March 10-13, 2008
Sea Trade Cruise Shipping Convention
March 10-13 KTIO will be at Sea Trade Cruise Shipping Convention in the Miami Beach Convention Center.
March 13, 2008
Japanese Food and Sake Festival
KTIO will be attending the Japanese Food and Sake Festival in Garden Grove, CA to introduce Kobe wine, Japanese Sake and tourism to Kobe City. For more information on this event please contact at Japanese Food Culture Association 213-509-3701 (Nikki) email:event@JapaneseFoodCulture.org http://www.japanesefoodculture.org/foodsake/event_info.htm
March 18-19, 2008
WBBA: Life Sciences CEO & Investor Forum
KTIO will be joining the Investor Forum at Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle. For more information on this event please visit http://www.investnorthwest.org/
December 5-7, 2007
Luxury Travel Expo
KTIO will be attending the Luxury Travel Expo in Las Vegas to introduce travel and tourism to Kobe City. For more information on this event please contact at 1-888-480-3077 or LTE@cdsreg.com http://www.luxurytravelexpowest.com/ltewest/v42/index.cvn
November 7, 2007 - February 13, 2008
JNTO Japan Travel Showcase
KTIO will be joining the Japan Travel Showcase at several places to introduce travel and tourism to Kobe City. For more information on this event please contact the Japan National Tourist Organization's Los Angeles office at 213-623-1952 or info@jnto-lax.org. http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/
May 6-9, 2007
BIO International Convention 2007
Visit us at the Japan booth in 2007 at the BIO International Convention in Boston. For more details visit www.bio2007.org.
Feb 7-8, 2007
Japan Travel Showcase 2007, L.A. and Orange County
KTIO will be joining the Japan Travel Showcase in Los Angeles and Orange County to introduce travel and tourism to Kobe City. For more information on this event please contact the Japan National Tourist Organization's Los Angeles office at 213-623-1952 or info@jnto-lax.org.
Jan 27-31, 2007
Lab Automation 2007 San Jose
KTIO will be attending the Association for Laboratory Automation's (ALA) Lab Automation Conference and Exhibition. For information on this event please visit ALA's website, www.labautomation.org.
Jan 27-28, 2007
Seattle Travel Show
Come visit us at the Japan National Tourist booth where you can learn about traveling and living in Kobe City! For more information about this event please visit the Seattle Travel Show's website at www.seattletravelshow.com.
Jan 25, 2007
Japan Travel Showcase 2007, Seattle
KTIO will be joining the Japan Travel Showcase at the Sheraton in Bellevue to introduce travel and tourism to Kobe City. For more information on this event please contact the Japan National Tourist Organization's Los Angeles office at 213-623-1952 or info@jnto-lax.org.
Oct 12, 2006
Japan Travel Showcase 2006, Phoenix
KTIO joined the Japan Travel Showcase at the Doubletree Paradise Valley Resort in Scottsdale, AZ to introduce travel and tourism to Kobe City. For more information on this event please contact the Japan National Tourist Organization's Los Angeles office at 213-623-1952 or info@jnto-lax.org.
Sept 17-21,2006
SBS (Society for Biomolecular Sciences) 12th Annual Conference & Exhibition
KTIO joined SBS's Conference in Seattle, WA to promote Kobe's medical industry. For information on next year's conference in Montreal visit www.sbsonline.org.
Apr 9-12, 2006
BIO International Convention 2006
KTIO joined the Japan booth in April 2006 at the BIO International Convention in Chicago. For more details on the success of BIO 2006 please visit www.bio.org/events/2006/.
