Category: BUSINESS

Thanks to coronavirus, 2020 has made it rather difficult to go out, meet people, and attend events. However, at the beginning of the upcoming New Year, many people still want to visit a shrine to pray ... ( read original story ...)

It is not accurate to call 2020 a watershed in women’s quest for respect and recognition in sports, but there is no denying there has been a shift. ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 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 ...)

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 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 ...)

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 ...)

The Osaka Prefectural Government has extended its request to bars and restaurants to shorten their business hours as coronavirus cases contin ... ( read original story ...)