Trade Show Designed To Promote Japanese Aerospace Industries

The second Aerosapce Industry Exhibition Tokyo (ASET2011) will be held October 26 to 28 at Tokyo Big Sight ... Japans largest industrial center ... in cooperation with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

ASET2011 is a "Business to Business" trade show designed to promote and develop the aerospace and manufacturing industries, and to support SMEs in these industries. Organizers say the show will showcase advanced processing technologies and creative development technologies that "Japan is famous for."

In an open letter on the ASET2011 website, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Governor Shintaro Ishihara writes that ASET 2009 was the first exhibition specializing in aerospace technology held in Tokyo, and effectively displayed our country's high-level technologies related to aerospace. At the same time, the event welcomed a large number of visitors from both inside and outside Japan, and provided forums for active business talks. He says the second ASET in October 2011, will to offer forums that are "even more international and expansive."

"The Tokyo Metropolitan Government positions the aerospace industry as a strategic industrial sector in view of the broad range of related technological fields, high technological repercussion effects, and strong growth potentials," he writes. "Beginning in FY2007, it has carried out diverse measures to enhance the technological and quality control capabilities of Tokyo's small businesses which have outstanding technologies, with the goal of having them enter the aircraft industry. In this way, through measures to support small businesses' entry into the aircraft industry, Tokyo promotes the enhancement of these companies' skills and capabilities, and works to reinvigorate industries and foster new industries. It also believes that these business projects will lead to the promotion and development of the aerospace industry."

Ishihara says Tokyo is home to Japan's largest industrial cluster which has outstanding technological power. At the same time, with a sharp increase in international flights to and from Haneda Airport in 2010, it will develop even more powerfully as one of the world's foremost international cities.

FMI: www.tokyoaerospace.com/en/index.html