"Matsumae Business Event" in Vejle
2025/2/19
On February 18-19 "Matsumae Business Event" was held in Vejle with close collaboration between Vejle Municipality and the Embassy of Japan. This was the third time that the embassy has been deeply involved in the business event in Vejle. This time the event focused on welfare technology and loneliness/isolation issue.
On the first day, the Event started with opening speeches by Mayor of Vejle Mr. Jens Ejner Christensen and Ambassador Uyama, followed by Dr. Mika Yasuoka Jensen, Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Mr. Yuki Oka, CEO, Digireha Inc., Mr. Ory Yoshifuji, CVO, OryLab Inc., Mr. Takayasu Fukui, Deputy Director, JETRO Düsseldorf, Mr. Atsushi Nakanishi, CEO, DFree Inc., and Ms. Rika Kawato, Founder, tona LLC., who gave inspiring presentations based on their respective expertise and experience. At the end of the program, H.E. Ms. Mette Kierkgaard, Minister for Senior Citizens took the stage to explain the elderly policy reform in Denmark.
On the second day, a seminar was held to promote inbound investment in Japan, attended by Ambassador Uyama, Mr. Jais Valeur, Honorary Consul-General of Japan in Vejle, and JETRO Düsseldorf. Meanwhile, the Japanese experts visited Social og sundhedsskolen, the vocational school specializing in health care and social care education, Betty Sørensen Parken, the senior care facility run by OK-Fonden, Bifrost, the facility for children with special needs, and Kong Gauers Gård, the complex kindergarten and elderly care center facility.
Through the fulfilling two-day program Japanese and Danish participants mutually learned a lot from respective expertise and expanded their network. We are deeply grateful to Mr. Mayor, and all the people concerned in Vejle for their warmest hospitality.
We wish cooperation between Japan and Denmark in welfare technology will advance further.
On the first day, the Event started with opening speeches by Mayor of Vejle Mr. Jens Ejner Christensen and Ambassador Uyama, followed by Dr. Mika Yasuoka Jensen, Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Mr. Yuki Oka, CEO, Digireha Inc., Mr. Ory Yoshifuji, CVO, OryLab Inc., Mr. Takayasu Fukui, Deputy Director, JETRO Düsseldorf, Mr. Atsushi Nakanishi, CEO, DFree Inc., and Ms. Rika Kawato, Founder, tona LLC., who gave inspiring presentations based on their respective expertise and experience. At the end of the program, H.E. Ms. Mette Kierkgaard, Minister for Senior Citizens took the stage to explain the elderly policy reform in Denmark.
On the second day, a seminar was held to promote inbound investment in Japan, attended by Ambassador Uyama, Mr. Jais Valeur, Honorary Consul-General of Japan in Vejle, and JETRO Düsseldorf. Meanwhile, the Japanese experts visited Social og sundhedsskolen, the vocational school specializing in health care and social care education, Betty Sørensen Parken, the senior care facility run by OK-Fonden, Bifrost, the facility for children with special needs, and Kong Gauers Gård, the complex kindergarten and elderly care center facility.
Through the fulfilling two-day program Japanese and Danish participants mutually learned a lot from respective expertise and expanded their network. We are deeply grateful to Mr. Mayor, and all the people concerned in Vejle for their warmest hospitality.
We wish cooperation between Japan and Denmark in welfare technology will advance further.
Ambassador Uyama delivered his opening address.
H.E. Ms. Mette Kierkgaard, Minister for Senior Citizens delivered a lecture.
Ambassador Uyama said a few words in the Mayor’s Dinner （To the left of the Ambassador is Mr. Jens Ejner Christensen, Mayor of Vejle, and to the right is H.E. Ms. Mette Kierkgaard, Minister for Senior Citizens)）
Mr. Jais Valeur, Honorary Consul-General of Japan in Vejle encouraged the audience to do business in Japan
Mr. Takayasu Fukui, Deputy Director, JETRO Düsseldorf explained JETRO’s support to foreign investment in Japan.
Betty Sørensen Parken