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Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Announce the Winners of the Salesforce.com Emerging Leader Awards Contact: Susan Parini, Japan Society of Northern California Program Officer 415-986-4383 or Siejen Yin-Stevenson, Assistant Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center 650-724-0096 The Innovation in Japan – … Continue reading →

An evening with Japanese Social Entrepreneur experts The Japan Society of Northern California held a panel discussion evening with leading experts in Social Entrepreneurs as the first kick-off event for the 2012 Japan-US Innovation on January 26, 2012. Panelists included: … Continue reading →

Japanese mobile gaming pioneer DeNA and game-changing information network Twitter were the first recipients of the Japan-US “World Changer” Awards in innovation, presented at Stanford University on July 15th, 2011. The World Changer award recognizes outstanding innovations by U.S. and … Continue reading →

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation has been named the 2011 Japan-US Intrapreneur Award winner in recognition of its high-tech, “green” Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) and the unique “intrapreneurial” process by which it was created. Nobuo Toda, recently retired chairman of Mitsubishi Aircraft … Continue reading →

Japanese biotech firm SanBio and US electric vehicle pioneer Tesla Motors will be the first recipients of the Salesforce.com Emerging Leaders Award in Japan-US Innovation in Business and Technology, the Japan Society of Northern California announced today. SanBio Co-CEO and … Continue reading →

Cloud computing and customer relationship management (CRM) giant Salesforce.com will join the first annual Japan-US Innovation Day and Japan-US Innovation Awards ceremony as a Series C investor, and will name the Emerging Leader awards. The Salesforce.com Emerging Leaders Awards will go to one Japanese and one U.S. company whose breakthrough innovations could catapult them into world changing enterprises in the future. Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – (Marketwire – June 8, 2011) – Registration is now open for the first annual Japan-US Innovation Awards and Japan-US Innovation Day conference, a new initiative by the Japan Society of Northern California to highlight the dynamic synergy in US-Japan innovation. Continue reading →

The Japan Society of Northern California is proud to announce the first annual Japan-US Innovation Awards and Innovation Day Conference on Friday July 15th on the campus of Stanford University. Continue reading →