Category: BUSINESS

Japan’s minister for gender equality called the country’s dangerously low births and plunging population a national crisis and blamed “indifference and ignorance” in the male-dominated Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

Prosecutors have today searched the home of Haruyuki Takahashi, a member of the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board, on suspicion of accepting bribes. ( read original story ...)

Japanese police on Tuesday raided the home of 2020 Tokyo Olympics board member Haruyuki Takahashi who allegedly received money from a sponsor, according ... ( read original story ...)

The preliminary PMI survey results for July signal a significant loss of growth momentum in the Japanese economy at the start of the third quarter. ( read original story ...)

The new forum, which expands the allies’ strategic coordination on economic issues, will have its first high-level meeting this week. ( read original story ...)

Company, which owns sites such as Lookfantastic and Zavvi, blames ‘global macroeconomic conditions’ ... ( read original story ...)

Logistics real estate firm ESR Cayman has closed its first data center development fund. The company this week announced the close of over $1 billion in equity commitments for its inaugural vehicle, ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo prosecutors searched the home-cum-office of a former board member of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee over suspicions he accepted around 45 million yen ($330,000) in bribes from a company ... ( read original story ...)

The latest view is in an upgrade from the government's previous assessment that the economy is "showing signs of picking up." As for private consumption specifically, the government upwardly revised ... ( read original story ...)

Japan upgraded its overall view on the economy for the first time in three months in July, signalling a broader recovery in economic activity as the drag from the COVID-19 pandemic continued to fade. ( read original story ...)

Japanese police on Tuesday raided the home of a 2020 Tokyo Olympics board member who allegedly received money from a sponsor he signed a consulting contract with, local media reported. ( read original story ...)

Japan on Tuesday executed a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a crowded Tokyo shopping district in 2008 ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito, father of the current emperor, received a diagnosis of heart failure last month but his condition has improved under treatment, an official at the Imperial Household ... ( read original story ...)

Rather than losing employees, Japan Airlines is farming out around 3,000 of them to non-aviation-related business units and subsidiary airlines. ( read original story ...)