Innovative Japan, Global Japan : Daikin's global internship program

Global Japan, Innovative Japan: Daikin, best known as a global HVAC company, headquartered in Japan but with 100 production facilities around the world and sold in 170 countries, has an interesting partnership with the University of Tokyo. Daikin's global internship offers Univ of Tokyo students the opportunity to visit various parts of the world, such as 3 weeks around the world (North America, Europe (Belgium), and Asia (Bangkok)) or 2 weeks in North America (Silicon Valley, DC, Houston).

I had the pleasure of talking about Silicon Valley (and Stanford and Berkeley) to students on the North America and Global programs on August 22. After a couple years of very limited travel by Japanese abroad, it's great to see these opportunities for enthusiastic Japanese youth to go see the world! This programs are very short, but with the pandemic, inflation outside Japan, and the weak yen, the more opportunities there are for youth to experience the world outside Japan -- even for a bit -- the better.