More than 1,000 blue carp streamers "swam" in the sky of the northeast Japan city of Higashimatsushima on May 9 in memory of children who lost their lives in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and ... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank Corp. Forms Capital and Business Alliance With ADA, an Integrated Digital Marketing Leader With Operations in Nine Asian Countries
SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434, “SoftBank”) today announced that it is forming a capital and business alliance with Axiata Digital Advertising Sdn. Bhd. (“ADA”), a Kuala Lumpur-based data and AI company ... ( read original story ...)
New chief of Japan business lobby vows to act for all of society
The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, will soon replace its chairman at one of the most challenging junctures in the top corporate lobby's history. Sumitomo Chemical Chairman Masakazu Tokura ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s Nikkei share average falls 2.00 pct
Japan's benchmark Nikkei average falls 2.00 percent to 28,927.81 on Tuesday, while the broader Topix shed 1.51 percent to 1,922.75. T Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the ... ( read original story ...)
Seven-Eleven Japan Selects Google Cloud to Advance Competitive Data Cloud Strategy
Seven-Eleven Japan is advancing its digital transformation strategy with Seven Central, its data cloud platform built on Google Cloud that consolidates and analyzes data from its 21,000 stores across ... ( read original story ...)
Tokura to replace Nakanishi as Japan Business Federation chief in June
The Japan Business Federation said Monday that Masakazu Tokura, chairman of Sumitomo Chemical Co., will replace Hiroaki Nakanishi as ... ( read original story ...)
Kotani a prominent face in Japan’s robotics industry
Mayumi Kotani grew up in southern Japan, in Kyoto prefecture, where women and men carried an equal load. In her small fishing village, about 100 meters from the sea, her mother was an active worker, ... ( read original story ...)
Powerful earthquake jolts northern Japan
Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes northeast Japan on Saturday Trends | Travel News Online | Travel Safety & Emergencies ... ( read original story ...)
Panasonic expects current business year’s operating profit to jump by nearly a third
TOKYO: Panasonic Corp expects operating profit to jump by almost a third this business year as economic recovery from coronavirus lockdowns spurs ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Eneos to restart Sendai refinery in second half of May
TOKYO: Eneos Corp, Japan's biggest oil refiner, said it plans to restart its 145,000 barrel per day (bpd) Sendai refinery in the second half ... ( read original story ...)
Kiwi Power Enters Burgeoning Japanese Energy Market with ENECHANGE as Channel Partner
Kiwi Power is partnering with ENECHANGE Ltd. to bring its advanced distributed energy resource platform to Japan. ( read original story ...)
Japan Business Federation chief to step down due to ill health
Hiroaki Nakanishi, the head of the Japan Business Federation known as Keidanren, will step down at the beginning of June owing to ill health, local media quoted sources close to the matter as saying ... ( read original story ...)
About 300 eateries in Osaka Pref. found serving alcohol despite COVID-19 restrictions
As many as 296 among some 48,700 eateries in Osaka Prefecture had been found serving alcohol as of May 4 in defiance of a national government ... ( read original story ...)
As cryptocurrencies boom, Japan looks to finally move on from scandals
A hacking attack that hit Coincheck in 2018 put a wet blanket on a growing cryptocurrency frenzy, but local players feel the industry has now turned a corner. ( read original story ...)
Editorial: Time for Japanese companies to rethink their significance amid pandemic
The business performance of companies in Japan is becoming polarized due to the spread of the coronavirus. While digitalization and stay-at-home deman ... ( read original story ...)
High-density seismic network detected inland earthquake precursors
Publishing in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from Kyoto University's Graduate School of Science, the Japan Meteorological Agency ... ( read original story ...)