In this video, we hear from KOSEN🏫 alumni who have founded startups with highly innovative technologies🚀. At KOSEN colleges, students develop ambition, imagination, and determination to learn from mistakes📚. Every day, technology from KOSEN helps shape the future worldwide🌏.
At one of Japan’s 58 KOSEN colleges 🏫, in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, students work on real-world problems. Through the college’s Ent-X program, engineering meets entrepreneurship⚙️💡, and locally-based projects tackle regional challenges.
Have you heard of KOSEN? 🏫 These colleges are a unique education system founded about 60 years ago to support Japan’s technology and manufacturing⚙️🏭. Watch to find out how KOSEN colleges operate at the intersection of technology and society.
Why not make the most of spring in Japan by traveling by train? 🌸🚃
The special edition of #HighlightingJapan takes you on a journey across Japan through uplifting spring scenery.
These journeys let you take in the season through the window as you head to your destination.
Beneath the Greater Tokyo Area, the world’s largest metropolitan area, Japanese technology protects urban functions and daily life from flooding🌊
By engaging with nature and learning to coexist with it, these efforts support the future of the city🏢
Raise your glass to making the right choice 🍸! See how Ethical Spirits’ thoughtful approach to upcycling turns sake lees and other unused ingredients into delicious drinks with truly feel-good flavors.
#SDGs#mottainai
Discover urushi—Japan's iconic lacquerware born of layers of artisan mastery and patience. Durable, repairable, and sustainable, its luster only deepens with time, embodying Japanese aesthetics ✨ in a timeless elegance across generations.
#CraftingJapan
Scenes from the Ministerial Meeting on the International Horticultural Expo 2027, Yokohama, Japan (GREEN×EXPO 2027), and the One-Year-to-Go Ceremony. With less than one year until the opening, advance ticket sales have begun. Efforts will be made, (1/2)
Making clean water fair and accessible in Uganda 💧
The SUNDA system can be used with hand-pumped wells and communal faucets to ensure people are charged fairly for water, and make funding ongoing maintenance and repairs easy ❤️
Turning food waste into new materials 💡
Japanese startup fabula is taking resources like spent coffee, cacao husks, fruit peels and more, and turning them into sturdy materials for a variety of uses, such as the bench seats used at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan! 💚
Yamanashi’s FANUC CORPORATION achieves path accuracy of ±0.1mm or less & compactness with its FANUC Robot M-800. The robot automates laser machining, cutting & drilling, driving automotive 🚗 & aerospace ✈️ industry progress.
#InnovationJapan