Unique Research · Event signup · April 26, 2024
Japan’s AI market is expanding across healthcare, eldercare, anime, gaming, manufacturing, finance, advertising, and services — changing daily life and addressing social problems. The country hosts nearly 100 Fortune Global 500 firms and 30,000+ companies with century-plus histories. Unique Capital sees Japan’s AI+ industry tech and applications, Chinese firms’ Japan go-global experience, consumer orientation, and craftsmanship culture as worth deep study.
June 23–28, 2024 — Unique Capital’s Japan AI+ Industry Outbound Study Tour: 6 days / 5 nights focused on AI+ healthcare, eldercare, robotics, advertising/media, and data mining, plus Japan landing policy and consumer outlook for Chinese companies.
Four visit themes
- Artificial intelligence — AI+ mature landings in healthcare, eldercare, robotics, advertising/media, and data mining
- Cross-border go-global — Chinese success cases and advantages entering Japan
- Resource links — Japan policy support and resources for Chinese outbound firms
- Looking ahead — how geopolitics and tech innovation shape China–Japan economic futures
10+ Japanese enterprises & organizations
- Yunji Technology (云迹科技) — commercial service robots; successful Japan landing; 1,300+ IP filings (800+ patents, invention patents >60%); national/Beijing “specialized & sophisticated little giant,” Beijing Sci-Tech Innovation Top 100, Wu Wenjun AI Technology Invention Award.
- Meituan — China’s largest local-services platform; Japan travel stack (food, shopping, hotels, attractions, outbound tours) as a window on Japanese consumer potential via local-life internet giants going abroad.
- Tokyo Fanyou (东京泛游) — game development & publishing; Japan market landing; shares AI in games and Japan go-global lessons.
- Deepinsight — AI data analysis & mining; visualization tools for enterprise data-driven growth; Japan application and outbound experience.
- Asia News Agency (亚洲通讯社) — Asia–Pacific media reach; news, publishing, events; AI in Japanese media.
- Dentsu Group — Japan’s largest ad & communications group (roots 1901 “Japan Advertising” / 1907 “Japan Telegraph & Communications Agency”; renamed 1955); planning, research, media buying, creative, PR; AI in Japanese advertising cases.
- Tsutaya Books (茑屋书店) — book-centered lifestyle retail (“library in the forest”); cinema, stationery, dining, music, Starbucks; viral cultural-commercial complex often cited for strong monthly revenue without “just selling books.”
- 7-Eleven Ito Research Center — founded 2012 within Japan’s largest retail group; trains store staff and service quality on Ito-Yokado + Seven-Eleven know-how; brand planning and merchant spirit.
- Aillis, Inc. — representative Japanese AI medical-device company; AI tools for hospitals/doctors to improve diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficiency.
- Shonan Robot Care Center — world-class robot care facility; robots for mobility-impaired and special-care populations; AI in eldercare.
One top national university
Visit University of Tokyo and/or Waseda University.
University of Tokyo (est. 1877, Bunkyo, Tokyo) — Japan’s top national comprehensive university; among Asia’s earliest Western-style universities; first among the seven former Imperial Universities.
Waseda University (est. 1882 by former PM Okuma Shigenobu) — leading private university; Top Global University Project Type A; APRU member; world’s first bipedal walking robot developed here in 1969.
Two cultural experiences
Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺) — Kyoto’s oldest temple; National Treasure; UNESCO World Heritage (1994). Otowa Waterfall’s clear spring ranks among Japan’s ten famous springs and gives the temple its name. Program includes Japanese tea ceremony and zazen.
Detailed itinerary & registration
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