The Madrid Region has attracted €1.046 billion in Japanese investment between 2023 and 2025, accounting for 78% of all Japanese capital that has arrived in Spain during this period. This was highlighted today by the Regional Minister for Economy, Finance and Employment, Rocío Albert, at the start of her institutional trip to the Asian country, where she took part in a business meeting held in Tokyo together with the Spanish Chamber of Commerce.
Albert presented the Madrid model, based on “economic freedom, low taxes and a predictable and secure environment”, and assured investors that its public policies are “known, predictable and generate confidence”. In her view, this has enabled Madrid to attract the vast majority of foreign investment coming into Spain, contributed to economic growth of 3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026 — three tenths of a percentage point above the national average and almost four times higher than the eurozone rate — and account for nearly 20% of Spain’s total Gross Domestic Product.
Albert also held a meeting with the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the country’s leading business organisation, which brings together more than 500 local chambers and around 1.2 million companies. The meeting addressed economic and trade relations and identified potential Japanese companies interested in investing in the region.
Finally, the Regional Minister visited the Tokyo headquarters of Gestamp, a Madrid-based multinational specialising in automotive components, with industrial operations in more than twenty countries. Albert highlighted the regional government’s support for the international expansion of companies from Madrid and for high value-added industrial sectors such as the automotive industry.