Tokyo has been named the best value long-distance holiday destination ... and drinks in a wide range of centrally-located restaurants and bars. It is also good news that prices have dipped in popular Caribbean islands. – Andrew Brown, Post Office Travel ... ( read original story ...)
Mertens out in Tokyo as last two seeds trampled
TOKYO: American Christina McHale pummelled Belgium's Elise Mertens ... 6-3 to set up a semi-final with Kato. Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of India news app for your device. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo leapfrogs Cape Town to become ‘best value long-haul destination’
Tokyo has leapfrogged Cape Town to become the best value long ... meals and drinks in a wide range of centrally-located restaurants and bars. "It is also good news that prices have dipped in popular Caribbean islands." Prices were researched by tailor ... ( read original story ...)
Japan still working out the kinks in emergency management
TOKYO -- Friday's launch of a missile over Japan, the second in recent weeks by North Korea, shows how the nation's emergency response systems still need work, with network malfunctions and government confusion compounded by a key absence at the top. ( read original story ...)
Japan pushes for ‘TPP 11’ progress with Tokyo meeting
The Tokyo meeting, announced Friday by Japan's government, likely will focus on debating which items should make that list. "We hope the meeting will serve as a big step toward achieving good results at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka, Okawa at the forefront of demographic changes altering power structures
Thus two very different men in western Japan have, through their different actions, sounded the alarm on a problem once thought remote but which is now quite close. View from Osaka is a monthly column that examines the latest news from a Kansai perspective. ( read original story ...)
Rauner: China, Japan businesses interested in Illinois, though high taxes a concern
Japan has more than 430 companies in Illinois, employing more than 50,000 people. He said business owners there have the same complaints about Illinois that local businesses do. "Business leaders expressed their concern about the property taxes in ... ( read original story ...)
Old people power: Japan’s rural elderly reverse gas station closures
“So the business is getting tougher every year.” And in Kawakami village, also in western Japan, the aging owner of the last pump stand handed the business for free to the village, and a public cooperative reopened it in April, offering various ... ( read original story ...)
Japan has a record 68,000 people over 100 years old — and the economy can’t keep up
"This is death to the family," Harvard sociologist Mary Brinton recently told Business Insider. Japan's centenarian population has been rising year over year since 1971, when there were just 339 centenarians. Last year, government data showed there were ... ( read original story ...)
Canada says it’s ‘gravely concerned’ about North Korea ballistic missile test over Japan
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland joined other world leaders in condemning North Korea’s latest missile test over Japan calling it “a deliberate and reckless action.” “Canada is gravely concerned by the escalating aggressive behaviour ... ( read original story ...)
American in Japan describes jolting North Korean missile alert
North Korea's official KCNA news agency reported that officials had said that Japan should be “sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb…” “Japan is no longer needed to exist near us," the committee said in a statement carried on KCNA. Galat said he ... ( read original story ...)
All you wanted to know about Indo-Japan trade
of India told Business Standard. Exports of soymeal - a processed soyabean product rich in proteins used as animal feed - to Japan greatly reduced in the wake of sustained high price compared to a low international price in 2014-15 and 2015-16. ( read original story ...)
Speech by Prime Minister at India-Japan Business Leaders Forum
It is a real pleasure to be with the business community of Japan and India. That too in the presence of a great friend: Friend of India; Friend of Gujarat and my personal friend Mr. Shinzo Abe Please give a big hand for this great friend and a great leader. ( read original story ...)
State delegation tries to assuage concerns of Japanese business leaders
Japanese business leaders have concerns about finding enough skilled workers to fill openings at their Indiana-based operations, including in Columbus. So as part of Indiana’s seven-day trade mission to Japan, which ends today, Gov. Eric Holcomb worked ... ( read original story ...)
Sirens sound as North Korea again sends a missile over Japan
TOKYO -- Warning sirens blared when the North Korean missile was launched and again when it passed over Japan's northern island of Hokkaido as residents were just starting their day. Community loudspeakers instructed people to get inside any building and ... ( read original story ...)
Strong demand Japan Post’s $12 billion share sale: Sources
Shares of Japan Post are currently trading barely above their 2015 IPO price of 1,400 yen. The price for the new offering will be set from Sept. 25 to Sept. 27, at a discount of around 2-4 per cent compared with share prices during that period. ( read original story ...)