Japan External Trade Organization

JETRO stands for Japan External Trade Organization (Japanese日本 贸易 振兴 会nihon boeki Shinko kai, Japanese External Trade Organization). JETRO (ジェトロ) was founded in 1958 by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI) established to support the Japanese export efforts and promote. The annual budget of the JETRO is financed more than half of the state. JETRO is represented with 74 offices in 56 countries, 36 offices in Japan not included.

Because since its inception, many Japanese exporters have successfully established internationally and Japan can boast a comfortable trade surplus, JETRO has differentiated its activities and expanded. She now serves also import transactions (in the form of trade fairs, seminars, and publications), cooperation between small local companies and their partners abroad and seeks to raise mutual awareness. In this case, foreign companies that want to gain or expand foot on the Japanese market, give advice and give so provides JETRO for example date information on laws and regulations for establishing a business in Japan and taught business partners.

In this sense, the JETRO also provides the JETRO Business Japanese profiency test, a Japanese - language test designed specifically for commercial and colloquial language.