OSAKA, Japan & AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) and Molecular Templates, Inc. today announced a collaboration agreement for oncology drug discovery programs. The collaboration will apply Molecular Templates ... ( read original story ...)
Influence of Temperature and Surfactants on the Solubilization of Hexachlorobutadiene and Hexachloroethane
Samenvatting: Takeda maakt resultaten eerste kwartaal FY2017 bekend.OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Een onderliggende omzetgroei van 6,6% is een van de factoren die zorgde voor groei bij Takeda. Onderliggende omzetgroei +6,6% met groei in alle regio’s ... ( read original story ...)
Olympic Gold Medalist Jeremy Wariner Retires After ‘Freaky-Fast’ Career
Ten years after running 43.45 for 400 meters at the 2007 world championships in Osaka, Japan, Wariner recently told SI that he has retired from track and field to focus on his business. For the past two years, he’s balanced his professional running ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka or Kyoto? Where to stay as a base for Kansai exploration
Certainly, Osaka will be more geared up to accommodate business travellers from other parts of Japan, in town on the company's tight budget. To this end, the area just southeast of Umeda is home to some pretty down and out business hotels where single ... ( read original story ...)
Shionogi Inc. President and CEO John Keller to Receive Innovation Award from NY American Chemical Society CME Group
Shionogi Inc. is the US subsidiary of Shionogi & Co. Ltd., a pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Osaka, Japan. For over 139 years ... I am delighted to be recognized by the business-focused topical group of the largest scientific society in ... ( read original story ...)
New Company Established to take over PLEN Cube Project
PLEN Robotics Inc.: Location?4-6-3-303, Toyosaki Kitaku Osaka city, Osaka, Japan Founder?Natsuo Akazawa(CEO), Atsuhiko Tomita(COO), PLEN Project Inc. Main Business: 1) Development, production, and sales of service robots. 2) Development, production ... ( read original story ...)
Research and analysis: Future of the sea: plastic pollution
Samenvatting: Takeda maakt resultaten eerste kwartaal FY2017 bekend.OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Een onderliggende omzetgroei van 6,6% is een van de factoren die zorgde voor groei bij Takeda. Onderliggende omzetgroei +6,6% met groei in alle regio’s ... ( read original story ...)
A Japanese technology giant is backing lending startup Kabbage
Kabbage, a $1 billion online lending startup, has announced a $250 million equity investment from a Japanese telecom giant SoftBank, according to a press release on the news. Kabbage was founded in 2008 to disrupt the business lending space. It currently ... ( read original story ...)
Summer bonuses fall for first time in five years
according to a final tally by the Japanese Business Federation (Keidanren). The average bonus fell 2.98 percent from a year earlier to ¥878,172, the first drop since 2012, after the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, according to the tally ... ( read original story ...)
Power Assist Suit Demonstration Experiment at the 2017 Para Powerlifting Japan Cup [Panasonic]
FUKUOKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic Corporation and ATOUN Inc. (with headquarters in Nara City, Nara Prefecture; represented by Hiromichi Fujimoto) together conducted a demonstration experiment at the "2017 Para Powerlifting Japan Cup" held at ... ( read original story ...)
Marriott opens five new properties in Japan
Marriott International has partnered with the Mori Trust Group and continues to expand their presence in Japan. The properties are spread across the country and natural resource from lakes to beaches to moutain’s to cities - they have covered the ... ( read original story ...)
Airbnb rival Tujia to partner with Rakuten in push for larger share of Japan ‘minpaku’ market
Airbnb Inc.’s Chinese rival Tujia announced Wednesday it will be partnering with e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. to expand its business in Japan following the government’s recent passage of a law giving the green light to private short-term minpaku ... ( read original story ...)
Japan service sector growth softens in July, new hiring slows: PMI
Growth in new business eased but was still solid, with the reading dipping to 52.7 from 53.2. Companies continued to hire new staff but also at a slower pace. The services sector PMI comes shortly after the final manufacturing PMI which showed Japan's ... ( read original story ...)
A limping Japan Display scrambles to join the OLED party
TOKYO If one company symbolizes the decline of Japan's once-dominant display industry ... APPLE SHOCK In a medium-term business plan unveiled at the end of 2016, the company targeted sales of 1.1 trillion yen and an operating profit of 88 billion yen ... ( read original story ...)
Honda leads Japan in planned R&D investments for 2017
TOKYO -- Honda Motor tops the list of 20 Japanese companies with the largest planned increase ... The survey also rated expectations of which new technologies would create business opportunities. AI ranked highest at an average of 4.5 out of 5, followed ... ( read original story ...)
A hillside fell to the ocean, triggering a tsunami nearly as high as Big Ben
There, a portion of hillside fell about a kilometre to the ocean below, triggering a tsunami that reached a height of over 90 meters — almost as high as London’s Big Ben (96 meters), and well above the runup of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. The tsunami ... ( read original story ...)