Following on from last year, we began Ver. 2 of the pilot project with Yuimarlu Okinawa in September 2025.  We held a kick-off meeting to confirm the details of the demonstration, which aims to increase added value and improve work efficiency for the company and its workshops using a customized app.

We had a small meeting with Mr. Cavalleri, the director of World Trade Center Lugano. WTC Lugano is located in Ticino, an Italian speaking canton and many foreign companies are operating business. We heard about WTC’s contribution to the local economy, its collaboration with international companies, and its efforts to support startups.

On July 9th, we visited Konta-nouen located in Kahoku Town, Yamagata Prefecture. Taking full advantage of the area's climate and soil, the farm cultivates and sells cherries, La France pears, taro, and Chinese yam. The visit provided a valuable opportunity to speak with the owner, Mr. Mitsuhiro Konta,  about expanding sales channels by attaching QMS TRACE QR codes to their  premium "Beni-Shuhō" cherries.

On June 4, 2025, the kick off meeting for the initiative to use Peppol in B2B transactions between Japan and Finland was held at Paasitorni, a historic conference center in Helsinki, co-hosted by the Peppol Authority of Japan and Finland. Four Japanese companies operating in Finland and six service providers from Finland participated. The clear, early summer sky in Helsinki reminded us of the color of Peppol.

On May 21, we visited Sasaki Green Tea Company (located in Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture), a supplier of CHUO FOOD SERVICE Co., Ltd. The company is a long-established tea manufacturer specializing in deep-steamed tea, handling everything from tea leaf harvesting to production and packaging in-house. Over the years, they have won the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award a total of 34 times and became the first Japanese tea brand to receive a three-star rating from the International Taste Institute (formerly iTQi) in Belgium, earning high recognition both domestically and internationally.