As a city that has thrived on international trade, the ties between Hamburg and economic powerhouse Japan are strong. As a result, Osaka, Japan’s third-largest metropolis, is one of Hamburg’s 9 sister cities. Today, Hamburg is home to approx. 2,000 Japanese citizens as well as more than 100 companies from the ‘land of the rising sun’. Twenty-five of them even have their European headquarters in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

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