Moomoo Partners with Actor Yutaka Matsushige in The Journey to Pursue Excellence TOKYO, May 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Online trading platform moomoo lighted up Tokyo city with its iconic orange color ... ( read original story ...)
Harvard Law’s Saeed Ahmad Announces Completion of IP Research on Luxury Brands in Japan
Saeed Ahmad, a Harvard Law student, conducted extensive research in Tokyo on IP protection strategies of luxury conglomerates, supervised by ... ( read original story ...)
Dollar steadies before awaited inflation test, yen brushes off Tokyo CPI
Official data showed overnight that the US economy grew at an 1.3 per cent annualised rate from January through March ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese businesses are trapped between America and China
In 1996 revenue booked by the foreign subsidiaries of Japanese manufacturers was just 7% of their total sales. Last year that figure reached 29%, a record high. Two markets have been central to this ... ( read original story ...)
Cosmetic clinics surge in Japan’s big cities, but so do complaints
Japan's cities are seeing a sharp rise in the number of clinics offering beauty treatments such as hair removal and cosmetic surgery. But the increase is accompanied by a sharp rise in complaints and ... ( read original story ...)
Japan govt. to provide $330 mil. for reconstruction fund of quake-hit Ishikawa
The Japanese government has decided to provide more than 300 million dollars in financial aid to help Ishikawa Prefecture recover from severe damage caused by the New Year's Day earthquake. The ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo inflation picked up in May, keeping BOJ on track for rate hike
Inflation in Tokyo accelerated in May, keeping the Bank of Japan largely on track to consider a rate hike in coming months even as the economy continues to show signs of weakness. Consumer prices ... ( read original story ...)
Why Japan is clamping down on host clubs
Some 21,000 male hosts work at 900 of these lucrative establishments but opaque prices for drinks and a "slippery debt system" have attracted the attention of the authorities, said Unseen Japan, and ... ( read original story ...)
Iga Swiatek and Naomi Osaka: How to be tennis world No 1
Their second-round match at Roland Garros could have been a final. Their relationship — and place in tennis — is its own story ... ( read original story ...)
Iga Swiatek saves match point, comes back to beat Osaka at French Open
Iga Swiatek played like the current No. 1 and the two-time defending champion at the French Open. No surprise there. That Naomi Osaka looked like the former No. 1 that she is and on clay, no less ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s luxury boom sparks wishful China thinking
Japan's downtrodden currency probably deserves more credit. There is no doubting that Japan is “on fire”, as Prada CEO Andrea Guerra told the FT Business of Luxury Summit last week: the Italian ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Grade A office rents rise for the first time in four years
Rents inched up by 0.9% in Q1. According to a JLL report, rents in Tokyo’s Grade A office market averaged JPY 33,860 per tsubo, per month, at end-1Q24, rising 0.9% q-o-q and falling 1.3% y-o-y. The ... ( read original story ...)
World No. 1 Iga Swiatek Fends Off Naomi Osaka To Advance At French Open
World No. 1 Iga Swiatek took a 15-match winning streak at Roland Garros and a 13-match winning streak overall into her second-round matchup with four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka, a ... ( read original story ...)
Iga Swiatek scolds French Open fans after showing champion’s fight to down Naomi Osaka
Roland Garros favourite Iga Swiatek laid into the French crowd for shouting out during rallies after she had just saved match point in a breathless comeback to beat the former world No 1 Naomi Osaka. ( read original story ...)
Sofia Kenin was 4-13 before the French Open. Now she is into the third round after beating Garcia
Sofia Kenin is into the third round at Roland Garros after eliminating 21st-seeded Caroline Garcia of France 6-3, 6-3. ( read original story ...)
Osaka ‘really excited to face’ Swiatek at French Open
PARIS: Naomi Osaka says she is “really excited” to face red-hot tournament favourite Iga Swiatek in the French ... ( read original story ...)