Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday met his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida at the prime minister's residence in Tokyo, where they signed a Joint Statement of Strategic Cooperation between Greece and Japan.

For one more year, Greece maintains the scepter in global shipping with China following and Japan in third place, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) points out in its annual report on maritime transport.

Orfium has acquired Tokyo-based Breaker INC, a Tokyo-based promotional, marketing and content creation company. Breaker will be renamed Orfium Japan and will operate a series of partnerships in the world's second largest market for the music industry, in the fields of music, gaming, entertainment and anime, with the wide range of products of the award-winning technology company Orfium.