INTERNATIONAL INCUBATION / Events
October
26, 2005
Doing Business in Japan in the New Environment:
Strategies for IT and Brick-and-Mortar Companies
International
Incubation Inc. organized a seminar titled “Doing
Business in Japan in the New Environment: Strategies for IT and Brick-and-Mortar
Companies” in the Plestcheeff Auditorium at the Seattle Art
Museum on October 26, 2005. The seminar consisted of 5 small sessions on
various topics related to how to do business in Japan, and nearly 80 people
attended it. Max Yoshimura (in the picture),
President of International Incubation, was the Program Chair and lectured
on various changes in Japanese business and tax laws, which affect American
companies already doing business in Japan and those that are newly entering
the Japanese market.
The other presenters were Mark R. Hennings, attorney at law with Merchant & Gould,
on Intellectual Property; Hiroshi Yagi, President of IMAnet, Inc. on Employment
Practice; David E. Wagoner, a Seattle-based arbitrator, on Resolution of International
Business Disputes; and Wistar Kay of Washington State CTED, Sam Tsoming of
U.S. Commerce Department and Daisaku Yukita of Japan External Trade Organization
of San Francisco on Government Resources. Consulate General of Japan, Honorable
Kazuo Tanaka made the closing remark. After the seminar, attendees enjoyed
a wine and cheese reception at the Simons Board Room.
This program was sponsored by Japan-America Society of
Washington and co-sponsored by JETRO San Francisco,
Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle, International Practice Section of Washington
Bar Association, the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants (WSCPA),
U.S. Commercial Services, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, and Washington State Dept.
of Community, Trade & Economic Development.