A unit of Tokyo Gas Co. is in advanced talks to buy U.S. natural gas producer Rockcliff Energy for about $4.6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Rockcliff is owned by private ... ( read original story ...)
City.Tech Tokyo
After the cancellation of both WebSummit Tokyo and Barkation conferences, Tokyo has now no major international startup conferences. What kind of startup hub can the Japanese capital aspire to be? The ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s business owners can’t find successors. This man gave his away.
It is inevitable that many small- and medium-size companies will go out of business as Japan's population shrinks, but policymakers fear that the country could be hit by a surge in closures as aging ... ( read original story ...)
Families Will Get 1 Million Yen To Leave Tokyo. Here’s Why
Japan is going to pay families 1 million Yen per child to move out of Tokyo this year to combat the rapid depopulation in the country's rural areas. ( read original story ...)
Japanese government offers families 1m yen a child to leave Tokyo
Government boosts incentives to lure people to ‘unfashionable’ regional areas hit by ageing, shrinking populations ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Business Owners Can’t Find Successors. This Man Is Giving His Away.
An owner’s struggle in Japan’s northern dairy region illuminates one of the potentially devastating economic impacts of an aging society. ( read original story ...)
Leave Tokyo to get million yen per child: Japan’s lucrative offer to families comes with conditions
Through the scheme, which will be implemented in April, the government hopes to depopulate Tokyo and encourage people to move to Japan’s rural areas ... ( read original story ...)
Families offered more than £6,000 per child to move out of Tokyo
Japanese government raise financial incentive to move to countryside to reduce population density of one of world’s most congested cities ... ( read original story ...)
Japan says it scrambled jets to monitor Chinese aircraft carrier operations
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to offer families $11,000 per child to leave Tokyo
Japan’s shrinking and ageing population and the migration of younger people to the capital have disproportionately hit the regions beyond Tokyo, Osaka and a handful of other major cities. ( read original story ...)
Centara Grand Hotel Osaka’s introductory rate ahead opening
In anticipation of the opening of its first-ever hotel in Japan, Centara Hotels & Resorts is offering an exclusive introductory rate for its debut property – Centara Grand Hotel Osaka. ( read original story ...)
Japan to offer families ¥1mn per child to leave Tokyo
Japan is planning to sweeten the financial incentive for parents who opt to move out of Tokyo as the government attempts to reverse decades of demographic decline, economic migration and the lure of ... ( read original story ...)
3 factors driving firms to invest in Japan’s real estate
Investors can get a 5%-6% annual yield when investing in the Land of the Rising Sun. Back in February, when borders were still closed, Peter Young and his team invested in real estate assets in Japan. ( read original story ...)
Continuously hospitalized in a “special room” costing several hundred thousand yen a month… The last days of a “Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly don” who had enjoyed a …
Mr. Uchida had been hospitalized since the summer due to health problems. He was hospitalized in a special room at the Jikei University Hospital. The hospitalization cost several hundred thousand yen ... ( read original story ...)
Business and gov’t execs, netizens lament New Year air traffic system glitch
A number of air travelers — including elected officials, businessmen and netizens have denounced the technical glitch that hounded the country's air ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Stock Exchange holds year-end ceremony, PM Fumio Kishida participates
The Tokyo Stock Exchange marked its last trading day of 2022 with a ceremony but the celebrations were subdued as the Nikkei Average posted its first year-on-year decline in four years, reported NHK ... ( read original story ...)