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Some of Ontario's most prosperous companies are Japanese in origin: Honda, Toyota and Canon, to name a few. Further, 'sister' relationships between many of our small towns help solidify the positive relations between Japan and Ontario.
- Japan is Ontario's fifth largest trade partner and 9% of the foreign capital invested in Ontario is from Japan. In Ontario there are about 80 Japanese companies, operating over 350 business establishments, and employing about 25,000 people.
- In 2010, imports by Japan of Ontario goods were valued at C$1.06 billion while Japanese exports to Ontario were valued at C$9.16 billion. See the Ontario-Japan Trade Fact Sheet.
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- The International Marketing Centre in Tokyo works with Japanese companies to find investment opportunities in Ontario and to promote awareness of Ontario and the province's many investment and business opportunities.
- Between 1998 and 2009 Toyota Motor Corp. invested C$5.6 billion in its two Ontario manufacturing plants - Cambridge and Woodstock - and now assembles approximately 319,548 vehicles per year in Ontario.
- Honda Motor Corp of Canada has its head office in Markham, Ontario, and two manufacturing plants in Alliston, Ontario. An engine plant was opened in 2008 to supply engines for the Civic, Canada's best-selling car. More than 1.5 million Civics have been sold in Canada since the vehicle's introduction in 1973.
- In 2008 MHI Canada Aerospace, a subsidiary of Japan-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, invested $1.1million in the construction of a new facility in Mississauga, ON. The company assembles major airframe components such as wings and fuselage for Bombardier Aerospace.
- Molten Aluminum Producer Canada invested $16 million in the construction of a new molten aluminum facility in Alliston, ON. The new energy-efficient facility will supply molten aluminum to Honda's die casting engine plant. Molten Aluminum Producer Canada is a joint venture between the Honda Trading Group and Asahi Seiren Corp. of Osaka, Japan.
- At the end of May 2010, the government of Ontario raised C$825 million by issuing five and ten year bonds in the Japanese market.
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- In 2008 approximately 29,000 people travelled from Ontario to Japan, while some 138,000 people travelled from Japan to Ontario.
- The 2006 Canadian census reported that there are 35,000 Ontarians of Japanese ancestry.
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- Many Ontario cities have 'sister cities' in Japan. For example Collingwood, Ontario, is sister to Katano and Lindsay, Ontario, is sister to Nayoro.
- The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre is located in Toronto. For more than 40 years, it has served as the gathering point for the Japanese-Canadian community and for those of non-Japanese ancestry who have an interest in things Japanese.
- The Japan Foundation established an Ontario presence in 1990; it contains a library and seminar rooms, it administers grant programs for arts and cultural exchange, Japanese-language education, and Japanese studies and intellectual exchange.
- The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program in Ontario sends 125 participants each year to Japan to promote English language education and cross-cultural understanding.
- There are hundreds of Japanese restaurants located in Toronto and thousands throughout Ontario, owing to an explosion of the popularity of Japanese food over the past twenty years.
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The International Marketing Centre in Tokyo
The International Marketing Centre in Tokyo is located in the Canadian Embassy. Part of the Centre's mandate is to work with Japanese companies to find investment opportunities in Ontario and to promote awareness of Ontario and the province's many investment and business opportunities, including Ontario's strengths across many sectors, particularly automotive, information technology (IT) and life sciences.
For more in-depth information on Ontario's investment advantages in these and other key industries and sectors, review the Ontario-Japan Investment Fact Sheet and the list of Ontario Industry Profiles:
Contact Information
Mr. Robert Ulmer
Counsellor (Commercial - Ontario)
Email: robert.ulmer@international.gc.ca
Ms. Hiromi Sawaki
Commercial and Administrative Specialist
Email: hiromi.sawaki@international.gc.ca
Tel: (011 81 3) 5412-6264
Fax: (011 81 3) 5412-6250
Ontario International Marketing Centre
c/o Embassy of Canada
7-3-38 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo 107-8503, Japan
Biography of Senior Economic Officer
Robert Ulmer
After studying Japanese in Canada, Japan, and the USA, Mr. Ulmer worked for the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO) in Toronto. He then began a career in banking - first with a Japanese bank, then with Scotiabank, serving on the bank's Japan Desk for a number of years in the Toronto headquarters.
In 1993, Mr. Ulmer was appointed Vice-President and Country Head, Japan for Scotiabank - a position he held until the end of 2002 when he returned to the head office to serve as Scotiabank's Vice-President, International Banking, Global Japanese Relationships. Immediately prior to this position, Mr. Ulmer was Executive-in-Residence for the McGill University MBA Japan Program in Tokyo.
