TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government is widely expected to compile an extra budget for this fiscal year, despite the improving economy, economists polled by Reuters say. Compiling extra budgets has become a habit for Japan as it struggles to shore up ... ( read original story ...)
Countering OBOR: India, Japan to Launch Asia-Africa Growth Corridor this Week
India and Japan are expected to commit about $40 billion initially to the proposed growth corridor with their strategic partnership and maritime cooperation playing a key role in the development of the corridor. New Delhi (Sputnik) — Japanese Prime ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s MUFG says picks Amsterdam as EU investment banking base
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFG) said it has picked Amsterdam as its European Union investment banking base, as financial institutions prepare for Britain’s exit from the EU. Japan’s largest lender is following the ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama Rubber : TO ROCK BAJA AS TITLE SPONSOR OF THE 2018 NORRA MEXICAN 1000
Release date- 12092017 - SANTA ANA, CA-Yokohama Tire Corporation (YTC) is Baja bound. Yokohama announced it has fortified its off-road racing ties as the title sponsor of the 2018 Yokohama National Off-Road Racing Association's (NORRA) Mexican 1000. ( read original story ...)
Thai SMEs visit Japanese firms aimed at elderly market
... UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan’s largest financial group, to facilitate the trip to several ageing-related businesses. The project also gained support from the Thai Trade Centre in Osaka and the Osaka Prefectural Government. Pornsanong Tuchinda ... ( read original story ...)
Hotel Review: InterContinental Osaka
With standard rooms on the larger side of what we’ve experienced in Japan, as well as ‘Suites’ or ‘Serviced Residences’ that go all the way up to 3-bedrooms, the InterContinental Osaka offers up spacious, luxurious rooms for business travellers. ( read original story ...)
Skkynet to Hold OPC UA Sandpit Event in Osaka
12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skkynet Cloud Systems, Inc. (“Skkynet” or “the Company”) (OTCQB: SKKY), a global leader in real-time cloud information systems, is pleased to announce OSP 2017―OPC UA Sandpit―will be held in Osaka, Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Digital Realty (DLR) Expands in Australia With New Facility
Specifically, the company has a meaningful presence in the Asia Pacific region, operating a network of data centers situated in Singapore, Hong Kong, Osaka, Melbourne and ... to be immediately accretive to financial metrics. (Read more: Digital Realty ... ( read original story ...)
Astro Japan Property : General Meeting – Address to Securityholders
Astro Japan Property Group is a listed property group which invests in the Japan real estate market. It currently holds interests in a portfolio comprising 29 retail, office, residential and hotel properties. Asset management services in Japan are ... ( read original story ...)
Astro Japan Property : Results of General Meeting
Astro Japan Property Group (ASX: AJA) advises that all resolutions put to the General Meeting of stapled securityholders held today, which related to a proposal for Blackstone to acquire all of AJA's interests in its Japanese assets (Proposal), were ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM Abe: Want next BOJ head to focus on meeting price goal – Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he wants the country’s central bank to focus on monetary policies geared at achieving its 2 percent inflation target, regardless of who becomes the next Bank of Japan governor, the Nikkei newspaper ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 rejects NGO claims over timber providers
LIMA (Reuters) - Organisers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Tuesday rejected allegations by 47 non-governmental organisations that they had used companies with suspect logging track records, saying all material purchased was strictly regulated. In an open ... ( read original story ...)
Just over 2 years left, intense work at Tokyo stadium site
TOKYO (AP) — The Olympic stadium in Tokyo is taking shape with 22 cranes on site and the spectator stands being installed after 10 months of underground foundation work. With its completion deadline just over two years away, work is intense. Olympic ... ( read original story ...)
‘We’re scared, obviously’: Japanese worry over growing North Korean nuclear threats
Pyongyang is threatening to keep firing missiles in Japan's direction or beyond ... Kondo says many atomic bomb survivors are frustrated by the recent news from the Korean Peninsula. She is shaken to her core when she hears reports of the estimated ... ( read original story ...)
School operator couple demanded discount on land deal; did finance bureau comply?
We will work things out to make the price as close to that figure." The audio recording reveals the Kagoikes, who wanted to buy the property in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to open an elementary school, start claiming that the soil at the property is ... ( read original story ...)
Japan aims to raise around $12bn in postal giant share sale
Last year state-owned Kyushu Railway made its trading debut after raising some 416 billion yen in an IPO. Tokyo sold shares in the struggling regional railway, better known as JR Kyushu, in hopes of attracting big-saving Japanese households as part of ... ( read original story ...)