Defense, aerospace, electronics, transport, telecommunications, automotive: these are some of the sectors in which Japanese industrial groups with interests in Italy operate, whose leaders will have a meeting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tomorrow in Tokyo.
An appointment included in the program of the official visit "to strengthen the already excellent industrial collaborations, promote new partnerships and attract Japanese investments", explain Italian sources.
There will be present, among other things, the managers of Mitsubishi heavy industries, partner with Leonardo and the British BAE Systems in the Gcap program for the development of sixth generation fighters, and of Hitachi (electronics, rail transport, Digital Mobility Transition and production of batteries), which has invested over a billion euros in Italy.
Through the subsidiary Ntt Data Italia, the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation is also present in our country (telecommunications, financial and multi-utility services, manufacturing and healthcare): in Cosenza there is one of the major global research and development hubs and the multinational , underline Italian sources, plans investments to also strengthen the offices in Naples, Rome and Turin, opening others in Sicily and Puglia.
Automotive components and integrated systems are the main business of Denso Corporation, of the Toyota Group, present in Italy with subsidiaries in Poirino (Turin) and in the province of Chieti.
While Ebara Corporation, manufacturer of electric pumps for the industrial and domestic market, has chosen Gambellara (Vicenza) as the site of its largest European factory.
The Italian attraction strategy also involves trading companies specialized in facilitating investments.
The meeting will therefore be attended by the leaders of Mitsubishi Ufj Financial Group, which already has a partnership with the Ministry of Enterprise, Mitsui & Co and Marubeni corporation, which in November announced an investment in the Italian aerospace company D-Orbit.
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