Tokyo aims to become “the most startup-friendly” city in the world by building a new facility for young firms and “considerably” increasing its procurement from such companies, setting itself the goal of bolstering the number of so-called unicorn firms and new business launches in the capital by tenfold over five years.
Given that Japan’s international competitiveness has been declining since the beginning of the 1990s, a period often called “the lost decades,” Tokyo intends to achieve a “game change” through its new policy, fostering the development of startups that can grow to achieve a global footprint, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Thursday during a news conference.
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