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Tim Walz: “In the six years since Japan first made visits here we've…”

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Published | Video Starts at 15:27

The Japanese probably figured this out before anybody else. They came not out of Washington, they came to the states. And In the six years since Japan first made visits here we've doubled direct foreign investment from Japan in growing. We did a Boston scientific launch. We had Phillips that came from the Netherlands and this time we made contact with especially in the space of ag and ag tech, cleantech and medtech. (15:27–15:35)

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Asserts that direct foreign investment from Japan has doubled in six years.

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