Category: BUSINESS

A western Japan venture company is offering free sanitary napkins via dispensers installed inside women's individual restroom stalls at comme ... ( read original story ...)

Recent trials of allowing cheering at soccer games are indicative of the approach toward large events in the coming months: a slow, highly cautious return to some aspects of normalcy. ( read original story ...)

Toyota has been very slow to develop electric vehicles and hasn't offered a mass-market, lithium-ion-battery vehicle until this year in the form of the joint-Subaru-developed Toyota BZ4X electric ... ( read original story ...)

Until around 30 years ago, this was its main business. Since then, Kaiho has expanded into exports of auto parts, after a Kuwaiti businessperson visited Japan and bought a large number of used ... ( read original story ...)

To leave Germany without some kind of cooperation pact on currency moves—or at a minimum, rules-of-the-road for the rest of 2022—would remind world markets why they’ve come to ignore the G-7. ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka and LeBron James have received backlash over the name of their new media company, Hana Kuma. The two sports stars announced this week they had joined forces to work on the new venture, ... ( read original story ...)

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The Osaka District Court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit claiming Seven-Eleven Japan Co. unjustly terminated its contract with a con ... ( read original story ...)

Chizuko Kojima, who has died at 106, built the superstore chain Aeon Co. alongside her younger brother. ( read original story ...)

Highest paid sportswoman Naomi Osaka launched a media production company in partnership with SpringHill Company, a media conglomerate created by LeBron James. ( read original story ...)

Kotaro Tamura, Asia fellow at the Milken Institute and former senator and parliamentary secretary for economic and fiscal policy in Japan, discusses possible measures such as the restructuring of ... ( read original story ...)

LCD maker Japan Display has unveiled its latest line of monitors. The company is looking to refocus its business on the electric vehicle and virtual reality sectors after posting losses every year for ... ( read original story ...)

Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka laments the fact that there was such a damning void of people looked like her in movies and TV shows. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese man accused of defrauding the government of 1 billion yen ($7.3 million) intended for small Japanese businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic was arrested on board a flight ... ( read original story ...)

Tencent Holdings is planning to open a third data centre in Japan, after entering the country’s cloud market in 2019. The Chinese technology giant’s Japanese business has posted triple-digit annual ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's SoftBank Group Corp said on Wednesday it has appointed Alex Clavel as chief executive of its SoftBank Group International (SBGI) unit, replacing Michel Combes who leaves ... ( read original story ...)