Dark Day for Japan Stocks as Unease About U.S. Spreads

It wasn't supposed to be like this. When Japan's Nikkei Stock Average hit a new record this February for the first time in 34 years, a healthy U.S. economy and extremely low interest rates in Japan seemed to promise a solid floor for the market. ( read original story ...)

5 Japanese Banking Groups Post Higher Quarterly Profits

Tokyo, Aug. 2 (Jiji Press)--Five major Japanese banking groups posted consolidated net profits that increased 19.1 pct in the fiscal first quarter ended in June from a year before to 1,338.6 billion yen in total as income from loans grew amid higher ...

How a hotel became a mountain sanctuary during Taiwan’s earthquake

Steven Pan is executive chairman of Regent Taipei - Silks Hotel Group. More about the group's philosophy of resilience can be found in "Crisis is Opportunity: Transforming resilience into leadership in the face of adversity" (written by Ching-I Lin and Steven Pan" and published in Chinese and Japanese. An English edition is forthcoming) ( read ...