JAPANESE INVESTORS VISIT BRAZILIAN BIOFUELS CENTER

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July 26^th, 2006

The head of the Brazilian National Biofuels Units, Weber Amaral, will act today as host to a delegation of Japanese investors and researchers, who have traveled to the country on an information-gathering expedition.

The meeting will take place at the Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (School for Higher Studies in Agriculture) of the University of São Paulo (USP). Participants include Yasushi Ninomiya, director of the Research Department of Japan’s External Trade Organization (Jetro). Jetro is the Japanese governmental agency in charge of trade and foreign investment – and researcher Saori Miyake, from Tokyo's Advanced Studies Research Organization (Gendai), a private sector organization with ties to the automotive industry.