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30 pct of executives at Japan’s top listed companies should be women by 2030: Japan PM
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday set a target for women to make up at least 30 percent of executive positions at Japan's top listed companies by 2030. It is crucial to spur innovation ... ( read original story ...)
Japan eyes more women execs
TOKYO: Japan's prime minister ordered his government on Thursday to begin work on increasing the number of women executives in major companies to 30 percent or more by 2030. ( read original story ...)
Japan restaurant industry delegation visits Hong Kong
Representatives of Japan's dining industry have been pitching for business in Hong Kong, one of the biggest importers of Japanese food. ( read original story ...)
Great Kanto quake documentary unearths Japan’s 1st “disaster footage”
With this year marking the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake, a documentary film is being produced focusing on three ca ... ( read original story ...)
It’s Richter Scale Day! (You know we have earthquakes here, right?)
April 26 is the birthday of Seismologist Charles Richter, co-creator with Beno Gutenberg of the Richter Scale, which measures the intensity of earthquakes. In the early 1930s, the field of seismology ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo company: ‘High probability’ spacecraft crashed on moon
A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon. Flight controllers lost contact Wednesday with the lander after it descended from lunar orbit, aiming ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s largest carrier is canceling the $10,000 first and business class tickets it mistakenly sold for $300
A currency conversion error on All Nippon Airways' Vietnamese website caused first and business class tickets to be sold for as low as $300 roundtrip. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s ispace aims to be first private company to land on moon
Following a December launch from Florida, Japanese private space company ispace is attempting to put its Hakuto-R M1 lander on the surface of the moon. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s business services inflation hits 8-year high in fiscal 2022
Japan's business-to-business service inflation hit an eight-year high in the fiscal year that ended March, data showed on Tuesday, a sign inflationary pressure was broadening beyond goods reflecting a ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo company aims to be 1st business to put lander on moon
A Japan ese company is about to attempt what no other private business has done: land on the moon. Tokyo’s ispace company put its own spacecraft into orbit around the moon a month ago. On Tuesday, ... ( read original story ...)
Many billionaires agree, Tokyo’s worth a revisit
TOKYO has struggled for years to pitch itself again as a major financial hub, but its ambitions might be saved by what Homer Simpson once called the two sweetest words in the English language: “De ... ( read original story ...)
DeSantis shrugs off Trump poll lead in Japan: ‘I’m not a candidate’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to announce his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination in a matter of days, deflected a reporter’s question Monday when asked about a series ... ( read original story ...)
How the 2011 Great Eastern Japan earthquake led filmmaker Makoto Shinkai to make ‘Suzume’
"Suzume", a Japanese animated fantasy adventure, follows the story of 17-year-old high school students Suzume Iwato and Souta Munakata, who team up to prevent a series of disasters across Japan. ( read original story ...)
Exploring Osaka By Boat! An Osaka Cruise Experience
General Toyotomi Hideyoshi constructed Osaka Castle about 400 years ago (1583). Following that, Osaka merchants built the artificial river, the Horikawa, as a channel to transport goods. With that, ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes Kermadec Islands region
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Kermadec Islands region near New Zealand on Monday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. ( read original story ...)