Keidanren, Tohoku region to cooperate for industrial rebirth

Sadayuki Sakakibara (L), chairman of the Japan Business Federation known as Keidanren, and Hiroaki Takahashi, chairman of the Tohoku Economic Federation, attend a press conference in Kooriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 9, 2015, after adopting a joint communique that the two sides will cooperate in developing robotics, medicine and renewable energy sources to revitalize local economic activity still reeling from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo