Japanese retail sales resumed falling and Tokyo consumer prices slid the most in a decade amid slumping energy costs and record virus cases that kept shoppers home and darken the recovery outlook. ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes near Ibusuki, Japan
Just 13 minutes ago, a 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck near Ibusuki, Ibusuki Shi, Kagoshima, Japan. The tremor was recorded early morning on Friday 25 December 2020 at 5:38 am local time, at an ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 reaches basic agreement with domestic partners to extend contracts into 2021
Tokyo 2020 announced it has reached a basic agreement to extend ... all over the world can gather to perform at their best will open the door to a new era of business, for Japan and for all over the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s New Economic Policy Guru: An Englishman Who Restores Temples
David Atkinson, a former Goldman Sachs analyst who has the ear of the prime minister, urges raising the productivity of Japan’s smaller companies. ( read original story ...)
Light tremor of magnitude 4.0 just reported 97 km southeast of Ishinomaki, Japan
An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 occurred around noon on Thursday 24 December 2020 at 12:31 pm local time near Ishinomaki, Ishinomaki Shi, Miyagi, Japan, as reported by NIED. According to preliminary ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Onward Holdings Sells Italy-Based Luxury Subsidiary
The sale may signal a potential change in strategy for the Japanese parent group that owns Jil Sander, which is said to be courted by OTB. ( read original story ...)
Japan Inc. Cuts Bonuses to Put More Pressure on Spending
Japanese companies have pared back year-end bonuses for employees by the most since the global financial crisis, putting additional pressure on consumer spending amid signs of a slowing economic ... ( read original story ...)
Health panel: Tokyo area must do more to stop spread of virus
A health ministry expert panel on Dec. 22 said authorities in the greater Tokyo area must do more to reduce business operating hours and prevent travel to halt the widening spread of novel coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 2-Japan’s MUFG bank business to make managing director Hanzawa CEO -Nikkei
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's banking unit will promote a managing director, Junichi Hanzawa, to the position of CEO in an effort to shake up its corporate culture, the Nikkei business newspaper ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo reports 563 new COVID-19 cases, a record high for a Tuesday
Tokyo has confirmed 563 new COVID-19 cases ... Suga said the government may instead ask restaurants and bars to further shorten business hours in a bid to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. ( read original story ...)
Japan Inc. Slashes Winter Bonuses by 9% as Pandemic Takes Toll
Japanese companies cut year-end bonuses for their employees by 9%, the most since the global financial crisis, according to business lobby Keidanren. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks open down on worry about slower global economic recovery
Tokyo stocks opened lower Tuesday on growing concerns that business restrictions and flight bans imposed in Europe and beyond after the rapid spread of a new strain of the novel coronavirus in Britain ... ( read original story ...)
Helping Employees Connect To Their Ikigai Is A Business Mandate In The 2020s
Santiago Jaramillo is the CEO and co-founder of Emplify, and a nationally recognized expert on employee engagement. Learn from his journey to identifying and aligning with his sense of ikigai, and how ... ( read original story ...)
Survival worries prompt Osaka eateries to defy early closing request amid virus 3rd wave
The Osaka Prefectural Government has extended its request to bars and restaurants to shorten their business hours as coronavirus cases contin ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 4.7 earthquake strikes near Ōfunato, Japan
The United States Geological Survey reports a preliminary magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck near Ōfunato, Japan on Sunday. The quake hit at 9:35 AM local time at a depth of 44 kilometers. There was no ... ( read original story ...)
6.2-magnitude earthquake shakes Japan
A significant magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit near Hachinohe, Japan, according to the USGS. The quake was detected around 9:00 am pacific time Sunday with an epicenter 96 km from ... ( read original story ...)