Irish firms ‘missing huge opportunities in Japan’

IRISH companies are not doing enough to penetrate the huge Japanese market, according to the country’s ambassador to Ireland, Toshinao Urabe.

While some companies, like Glen Dimplex, were doing exceptionally well in Japan, there were more opportunities there, he said.

“Irish companies have tended to concentrate predominately on Europe and the US but some are now looking to Asia. That is a good thing but I feel that many more are not making the effort to break into the Japanese market.”