Category: BUSINESS

STORY: Businesses are feeling more bullish in Japan and China. Figures out Monday showed sentiment at Japanese service sector firms hitting highs not seen for more than three decades. The closely ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese big manufacturers' business confidence worsened in the three months to March compared with the previous quarter, the Bank of Japan's closely-watched tankan survey showed on Monday. The ... ( read original story ...)

Hollys, the coffee business unit of South Korea's KG Group, said Monday it will open its first overseas outlet in Japan in the first half as part of its expansion strategy. Hollys plans to set up a ... ( read original story ...)

China released its official PMI figures over the weekend, while Japan is set to release its Tankan survey, which gauges business sentiment in the country. ( read original story ...)

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Health authorities searched a second Kobayashi Pharmaceutical factory in western Japan on Sunday after the company reported five deaths possibly tied to dietary supplements, an official said. ( read original story ...)

Japanese government health officials are inspecting a factory that produces health supplements that have been linked to at least five deaths and the hospitalization of more than 100 others ... ( read original story ...)

I’d been reading about The Room on several first- and business-class airline enthusiast message boards and after weeks of stalking availability, I landed a seat. In my twenty years of flying, I’m ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Tokyo markets closed higher on Friday after the Dow and S&P 500 hit new highs on Wall Street, while investors awaited US economic data due later in the day. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index added ... ( read original story ...)

Panasonic said it will also acquire a 20% stake in Star Japan Holdings, the company which will own the new parent company of PAS. The automotive business will maintain its strategic relationship with ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO >> Five people who took a Japanese health supplement have died and more than 100 have been hospitalized as of Friday, a week after a pharmaceutical company issued a recall of the products, ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese independent film distributor picked the film up after Universal Pictures left Japan off the film’s global release schedule. ( read original story ...)

In the week since a line of Japanese health supplements began being recalled, five people have died and more than 100 people are hospitalized as of Friday ... ( read original story ...)

This year's blooming is the latest in the capital since 2012, when they were declared to have blossomed on March 31. ( read original story ...)