On 23 October, Łódź and Łowicz hosted Japanese journalists from 'Nikkei Business Publications'. The visitors came here to gather materials for the first monograph tourist guidebook about Poland in Japanese.
On 4 November, The Marshal of Łódź Voivodeship and Janusz Mękarski, Vice-Mayor of Bełchatów, presented the concept of a multimedia museum called 'The Power Giants'.