A social business firm established by a group of young Japanese entrepreneurs is to launch Yunus Social Business Japan, a company dedicated to creating social businesses in their country and abroad.
On October 8, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus attended a meeting of the members of the board of Tomoni Corporation, who are setting up Yunus Social Business Japan as part of a global network of Yunus Social Business companies around the world, says a press release.
The network of the social business companies is headquartered in Germany’s Frankfurt.
At the meeting, it was decided that the signing ceremony with the parent company for launching Yunus Social Business Japan will be held in Berlin at the Global Social Business Summit on November 4 to 6.
Also, the CEO and top executives of Japan International Cooperation Foundation met Professor Yunus to work out the conceptual framework of a joint venture agricultural company with Yunus Social Business Uganda, in line with agricultural joint venture with Yunus Social Business Colombia with McCain of Canada, a giant global company specialising in the processing of potato.
On the same day, Prof Yunus attended, as the chief guest, the YY (Yunus and Youth) Social Business Design Contest 2015 held in Roppongi in Tokyo. It was organised by Yunus and Shiiki Social Business Research Centre at Kyushu University. This is the fourth year of this annual contest.
Eight top projects were presented at a gathering of over 100 faculty members, business leaders and students at the contest. The winning teams in each category were given trophies as well as scholarships to attend the Global Social Business Summit in Berlin.
Professor Yunus also attended a meeting of Social Business Academia Chapter of Japan and updated 32 academics from various universities of Japan on the development of the network of academics who are teaching or are involved in research on social business.
A conference of the academia network will be held in Berlin on November 3 to 4, prior to the Global Social Business Summit at the same venue.
