Category: BUSINESS

The Kura Sushi USA restaurant chain canceled a $5.98 million federal loan after outrage from advocates and policymakers over national restaurant and hotel companies obtaining millions in funds from ... ( read original story ...)

WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WiTricity, technology for wireless power transfer over distance, was central to a next-generation electric mobility demonstration in Osaka, Japan, led by DAIHEN ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks rose Thursday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as investor sentiment improved after oil prices rebounded abroad from ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks bounced back sharply Thursday ... Investor sentiment was also brightened somewhat by heightened expectations for a restart in business activities in the United States, which are currently ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo organizers issued a statement Wednesday saying it was a male employee in his 30s who worked at the headquarters building in a part of Tokyo known as Harumi. Organizers said he was in quarantine ... ( read original story ...)

The number of new coronavirus cases in Germany stayed close to a three-week low as that country begins gradually lifting pandemic-related lockdown measures. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo’s governor said the world’s largest city is looking at new measures to encourage social distancing as the risk of a breakout in the coronavirus remains. China’s lenders reported a rise in bad ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks dropped Wednesday morning, with the Nikkei briefly sliding below the 19,000 line for the first time in two weeks, as ene ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed until 2021, and the cost of hosting them is only going up for Japan. According to The Associated Press, Japan has said the official cost of the Olympics is $12.6 ... ( read original story ...)

Noting that Japan was the world's third-largest economy and a regional interconnectivity hub, Equinix said Tokyo housed a large number of global and regional business headquarters and which end-user ... ( read original story ...)

“Whale food orders are higher than before” as a result of the attention the resumed commercial whaling has brought to the meat, said Shintaro Sato, the owner of Taruichi, an izakaya (Japanese pub) ... ( read original story ...)

IOC member John Coates, who oversees planing for next year’s Tokyo Olympics, claimed last week that the postponed games could help “kick start” Japan’s economy. But economists and Olympic researchers ... ( read original story ...)

Our business is almost dying," said Masaru Harada, 53, president of the intermediate wholesaler Dairiki Shoten, which has a shop inside the Toyosu market. Dairiki trades 50 to 60 expensive marine ... ( read original story ...)

“ClickDishes is moving quickly to provide the small restaurants, food courts, and food trucks of Tokyo with a way to evolve their businesses digitally while navigating these trying times.” ... ( read original story ...)

In Tokyo, major department stores have closed down ... much of the nation’s nightlife districts and their izakayas remain open, as small-business owners – who make up the backbone of Japan’s nightlife ... ( read original story ...)