The current state and the prospects
for direct inward foreign investments in Italy were the focus of
a conference organised in Tokyo by the Ministry of Business and
Made in Italy on the occasion of the Japanese stage of the World
Tour of the Amerigo Vespucci sailing and training ship and the
Villaggio Italia, the multi-year travelling exhibition of
Italian excellence that is accompanying the Vespucci in the
major ports of five continents.
Participating in the round-table titled "Invest in Italy: where
innovating is tradition" were Deputy Business and Made in Italy
Minister Valentino Valentini, Japanese Deputy Minister for the
Economy, Trade and Industry Nobuhiro Yoshida, Italian Ambassador
to Japan Gianluigi Benedetti, the Commissioner General for Italy
at Expo Osaka 2025, Mario Andrea Vattani, and Amedeo Teti, the
head of the Italian government's Business Department and
coordinator of its foreign investment attraction office.
Also present were the representatives of some of the major
Japanese companies present in our country: Denso, Hitachi, Ihi,
Marelli Holdings, Marubeni, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Nippon Sanso,
NTT Data and Shionogi.
The Japanese stakeholders were shown both the new opportunities
for investing in Italy, in a crucial phase of industrial and
technological transformation towards a sustainable and digitised
economy, and the activity of the new one-stop office "Invest in
Italy", the unique interface at a national level for foreign
investors which accompanies them and supports them in all the
procedures and processes needed for the concrete realisation of
the investment.
"We are here with a piece of Italy, and the Vespucci, a
travelling ambassador, to showcase our firms, but above all to
tell you: come to Italy to invest," said Deputy Minister
Valentini.
"Italy is ready to welcome businesses with a renewed legislative
and administrative apparatus, and also banks on the historic
friendship underpinning relations between the two countries,
which is reinforced each day in its collaboration and in what
Japanese businesses do in Italy".
Bilateral relations between Italy and Japan have intensified
significantly over the last few years, with 557 direct inward
Japanese investments in Italy that employ over 58,000 workers
and generate an overall turnover of over 31 billion euros. The
ties between the two countries received new impetus from the
signing of a "strategic partnership" in January 2023 by Premier
Giorgia Meloni and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
"Our governments have a firm intention to further promote
collaboration between Italy and Japan in trade, industry and
investments," said Deputy Minister Yoshida.
"Collaboration between firms is just as keen and businesses can
also take advantage of the events that await us in the next few
months in order to further develop their relations, starting
with the Expo Osaka and then on the occasion of the Winter
Olympics at Milan-Cortina in 2026".
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