Profound Vision held a seminar in association with DONUTS, a leading Japanese IT firm and the Kochi prefectural government of Japan.
Raza Bashir Tarar, Ambassador of Pakistan in Japan and Mitsuhiro Wada, Ambassador of Japan in Pakistan congratulated and appreciated the efforts of DONUTS and the Kochi prefectural government for offering employment opportunities to the ICT engineers of Pakistan. They stressed upon the potential that exists which can mutually benefit both countries and assured of their cooperation and full support.
Profound Vision of Japan which has an operating office in Karachi was instrumental in organizing the meaningful event with the participation of both Embassies, JETRO, Fauji Foundation, Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) of the Prime Minister’s office and Pakistan Japan Business Forum (PJBF), a bilateral business forum in operation since 2001.
Nobuo Shiobara, CEO Profound Vision, andMizuki Ishiyama, Executive Officer & General Manager of JOBCAN, DONUTS Co., Ltd., talked extensively about the actual development within their companies whereas Kazunori Yamaguchi, Chief Officer, JETRO Karachi Office, Tooru Ageta,Section Chief, Industrial Digitalization Promotion Division, Kochi Prefectural Government talked about the life in Japan and the facilities offered by Kochi prefecture and specially for foreign students. Numerous students from different universities in Pakistan were also in attendance.
Col Zaihham Khan, Sitara e Imtiaz Military (R), CEO OES, Fauji Foundation, discussed the vetting and selection process of the candidates being introduced to the Japanese corporations.Daichi Orihara, General Manager of Kochi Office, DONUTS Co., Ltd., elaborated upon about their company products and their corporate culture attracting foreign employees to support Japanese corporations. Jameel Qureshi, Secretary SIF Chighlighted the ease of doing business for foreign companies in Pakistan and requested the participants to establish their offices and cash in on the immense potential that exists in the ICT sector between Pakistan and Japan.
In his closing remarks Imtiaz Ahmed, Former Ambassador of Pakistan to Japan, who has recently been awarded the”Order of the Rising Sun Gold and Silver Star” by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan for his outstanding contribution in bringing the two friendly countries together, highlighted the bilateral relation between Japan and Pakistan since 1952 and elaborated upon his own experience during his several tenures and endorsed the views and suggestions of the speakers and presenters. Speaking in both Japanese and English he encouraged companies of Japan to invest in Pakistan and at the same time highlighted the advantage for Japanese companies to take on talented youth of Pakistan, specially IT experts to help them in their corporate endeavors.-
