TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - February 08, 2017) - Tokyo Smoke, Canada's leading premium cannabis-oriented lifestyle brand, has acquired Van der Pop, a like-minded cannabis product and experience brand based in Seattle, WA. Run by acclaimed designer and ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo golf club undecided over rule changes to allow women
TOKYO -- Board members at the club that will host the 2020 Olympic golf tournament failed to make a decision about changing their policy of excluding women as full members. The Kasumigaseki Country Club came under scrutiny recently when the International ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan sees improvements in economy but warns on inflation expectations
TOKYO Bank of Japan board members saw improvements in exports, consumer spending and capital expenditure but warned that it may take time for inflation expectations to pick up, a summary of opinions from their Jan. 30-31 meeting showed on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)
Hotel JAL City Nagoya Nishiki to Open in 2019
View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170207006603/en/ The new hotel will be located in Fushimi, just seven minutes from Fushimi Station on the Nagoya Municipal Subway. Fushimi, traditionally a tranquil area on the banks of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan broad trade surplus at 9-year high on weaker yen
U.S. figures reported Tuesday showed Japan logged the second largest trade surplus with the U.S. last year, at $68.9 billion dollars. China's, at $347 billion, was the highest. Those reports were front page news in Japan, where Trump's criticism has ... ( read original story ...)
Japan logs strong trade data ahead of Abe-Trump meeting
chief economist and principal at Japan Macro Advisors, told Bloomberg News. “It basically gives ammunition to the Trump administration that the yen is too cheap.” Japan’s current account surplus hit 20.65 trillion yen (USD 184 billion) last year ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese PM urges companies to deliver 'tweetable' figures of their US investment plans for Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump will play a round of golf with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Florida this week Reuters Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe has called on companies and investors in his country to gather “tweetable” figures of their US ... ( read original story ...)
Japan broad trade surplus at 9-year high on export rebound
TOKYO — Japan says its current account surplus hit a 9-year high in 2016, helped by lower costs for imported oil and improved exports. The perennial trade surpluses Japan runs with the U.S. are a sore point for U.S. President Donald Trump, and the data ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Abe heads to Washington this week bearing pledges of jobs and investment
Japan’s prime minister, a man who promised voters he would turn Japan back into a “beautiful country”, is now doing his utmost to Make America Great Again. Shinzo Abe is set to arrive in Washington on Friday for his first official summit with ... ( read original story ...)
With golf and gifts, Japan's Abe cuts own path with Trump
TOKYO (AP) — Japan is charting its own course to deal with a radically different U.S. president, an approach that will be tested at the end of this week when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Donald Trump in the White House and on the golf course in Florida. ( read original story ...)
Samurai martyr beatified in Japan
Tokyo, Japan, Feb 8, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A 17th century Catholic Samurai and martyr was beatified during a Mass in Osaka, Japan on Tuesday. Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka pushes Yumeshima for casino and resort, 2025 World Expo
OSAKA – Osaka’s political and business leaders are moving forward with plans to develop Yumeshima, a man-made island in Osaka Bay, into what they hope will be the site of an integrated resort with casino gambling by 2024 and the World Exposition in 2025. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo property market to slow this year: Expert
Tokyo's real estate market is expected to see new supply, which will push down rental growth, says David Paine from Standard Life Investments. ( read original story ...)
Japan logs biggest current account surplus since 2007
TOKYO Japan attained its second-biggest current account surplus on record in 2016, Ministry of Finance data showed on Wednesday, just days before the U.S. and Japanese leaders meet for talks with trade surpluses and currency valuations expected to be high ... ( read original story ...)
Japan cool to inviting China into TPP
Japan is cool to the notion of inviting China to join a pan-Pacific trade pact abandoned by US President Donald Trump, fearing such a step would boost Beijing's clout and water down what was meant to be the 'gold standard' for rules of trade. Nor are ... ( read original story ...)
US beef, pork producers push for trade deal with Japan
Business groups representing the beef and pork industries on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to start trade negotiations with Japan. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the National Pork Producers Council sent a letter to President Trump ... ( read original story ...)