Category: BUSINESS

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 ...)

Olympics, held in 2021 after being postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, cost 1.42 trillion yen ($10.4 billion), nearly double the figure quoted in the city's bid for the Games, ... ( read original story ...)

Ibaraki, a new civil airport on the northern outskirts of Tokyo, was quickly redesigned for a low cost function, most of its unnecessary trappings being removed. Traffic began to grow. But since the ... ( read original story ...)

The Hollywood Reporter reported on Tuesday that Osaka and her business partner Stuart Duguid’s venture, Hana Kuma, will partner with James’s own production company with longtime business ... ( read original story ...)

The price tag for last summer's pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics ballooned to 1.42 trillion yen (about $13 billion based on 2021 rates), nearly twice the initial estimate, with ... ( read original story ...)

The final price tag for last year's COVID-delayed Tokyo Olympics was put at $13 billion (1.4 trillion Japanese yen), the organizing committee said Tuesday in its final act before it is dissolved at ... ( read original story ...)

(Mainichi/Shinnosuke Kyan) TOKYO -- The Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) on June 17 revised and greatly simplified its infection control guidelines for the coronavirus. This is based on the ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG) has confirmed the staging of last year’s postponed events cost JPY 1.423.8tn (€9.91bn/$10.45bn), nearly double the ... ( read original story ...)

Nick Kyrgios becomes newly launched agency's first client, with Stuart Duguid to represent Australian tennis star. ( read original story ...)

NTT's flexible work program is aimed at attracting and retaining talents amid a labor crunch in Japan. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who has vowed to substantially increase his nation's defence spending, said on Tuesday there are no numerical targets for the outlay. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa said Tuesday that foreign technology giants that have not registered their foreign global headquarters in the country as required by Japanese law will be ... ( read original story ...)