Japan Career Fair: IIT Hyderabad hosts 1st edition of Japan Week 2023

The companies, comprising startups, SMEs, and large corporates, participated in promoting their businesses/cutting-edge technologies to attract students from IITH.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad and JETRO co-hosted “Japan Career Fair 2023”, the sixth edition of “JAPAN DAY”, and 20 distinguished Japanese companies attended this career fair, which is the largest number of participants since the event started in 2018. The companies, comprising startups, SMEs, and large corporates, participated in promoting their businesses/cutting-edge technologies to attract students from IITH.

Toshihiro Mizutani, Director General, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Bengaluru, said, “Interest in India’s engineering and scientific talent is growing among Japanese companies; as a result, we are welcoming double the number of Japanese companies as compared to last year’s Japan Day.”

Speaking on the occasion of the 6th edition of the Japan Day’ at IITH, and said, “Since there is a critical lack of IT engineers in Japan, several businesses there are eager to employ motivated Indian expertise. The participating Japanese companies anticipate that IITH students will play key roles in emerging technological innovation and global strategies. Former “JAPAN DAY” has now expanded to “Japan Week” to showcase other aspects, including Japanese culture. We hope that the students explore a little about Japanese culture and also gain some essence of the Japanese corporate culture.”

Speaking on the event’s success, Prof Tarun K Panda, Dean (International Relations), IITH, said, “Participation of 20 distinguished Japanese companies at the career fair, underlining its growing importance in fostering collaboration between India and Japan. The significance of the year-long collaboration for the Career Fair and week-long collaboration involving Japanese universities, organizations, and Indian-Japanese initiatives is a testament to the strength of global partnerships and technology exchange. We affirm our commitment to nurturing these connections for mutual innovation and growth.”

In addition, IITH, with the support of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japanese universities, and Japanese organizations co-hosted the first edition of the “IITH-Japan week 2023” from 18-24 September 2023. 7 Japanese universities, 8 Japanese organizations, 1 Indo-Japan hub, and three companies participated in the various events to promote various aspects of IIT Hyderabad Japan collaboration.

 JETRO, in association with IITH, has been conducting “JAPAN DAY” at IITH since 2018; 10 Japanese companies, primarily large corporations, joined the event in 2018. The number of participating companies has grown and it was Re-branded as “Japan Career Fair 2023”, the following 20 companies participated this year.

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