PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTE
Italy–Japan Business Group (IJBG)
General Assembly
(Palazzo della Cancelleria, 13 May 2025)
The XXXIV General Assembly of the Italy–Japan Business Group (IJBG) will take place in Rome on Tuesday, 13 May 2025, at the Palazzo della Cancelleria, Piazza della Cancelleria No. 1.
The Italy–Japan Business Group (IJBG) is a bilateral association founded in 1989 by the Italian and Japanese business communities, under the patronage of their respective governments. Its main goal is to foster strategic partnerships, investments, and trade exchanges, by enhancing synergies in key and innovative sectors such as digitalisation and sustainability.
The meeting serves as a key moment to launch new initiatives, review the results of ongoing collaborations, and define future strategic priorities.
The plenary session (the only one open to the press), which will take place in the Sala Vasari starting at 2:45 p.m., will include speeches by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, the Deputy Minister of Economy, the Japanese Minister of Trade and Industry, Akiyoshi Kato (via video message), the President of the Italy-side IJBG, Roberto Cingolani, and his Japanese counterpart, Shunichi Miyanaga.
Also speaking will be the President of the Italian Trade Agency (ITA), Matteo Zoppas, and the President of JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization), Susumu Kataoka.
At 5:00 p.m., a speech is scheduled by the Minister for Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso.
At 3:15 p.m., a group photo session open to photographers and cameramen will take place.
Journalists interested in attending the plenary session can apply for accreditation by sending a request by 12:00 p.m. on Monday, 12 May via e-mail to accreditamentostampa@esteri.it (tel. +39 06/3691-8210-3432-8573 or 3078), as follows:
For representatives of the Italian press organisations:
– a copy of the identity document,
– a letter of assignment from the newspaper of affiliation or – in the absence of the latter -, a copy of professional identity card.
For representatives of foreign press organisations not accredited at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
– a copy of the identity document,
– letter from the newspaper of affiliation,
– Verbal note of the Embassy in Rome of the country of the press organisation represented.
For representatives of foreign press already accredited at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the request must be sent with a copy of an identity document attached.
Please note that accreditation requests cannot be accepted after the deadline indicated.
Journalists whose accreditation has been confirmed—via the same email address used for the request—must arrive between 2:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. for the necessary security checks and to collect their badges at the Palazzo della Cancelleria, Piazza della Cancelleria No. 1. Badges must be collected in person upon presentation of a valid ID document.
Submitting the above-mentioned personal data means authorising the use thereof in accordance with Italian Legislative Decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003 and the GDPR (EU Regulation 2016/679) by the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the data controller, for strictly professional purposes and/or purposes related to the performance of the event in question.
