Japan's powerful business lobby Keidanren is dominated by energy-intensive sectors that represent less than 10% of the economy, resulting in national policies that favour coal and hindering attempts ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Honda sinks for quarter as pandemic crashes sales
Japanese automaker Honda reported Wednesday it sank into the red for the April-June quarter, as its sales plunged over the coronavirus pandemic, especially in the U.S., Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Doctors in Japan Caution Against Domestic Travel Amid COVID-19 Resurgence
Doctors in Japan Caution Against Domestic Travel Amid COVID-19 Resurgence ... governments should decide for themselves whether to issue mandatory restrictions on business or travel. "These orders ... ( read original story ...)
Japan considering extending special employment subsidy: labour ministry official
Japan is considering extending a special employment subsidy to help firms hit by the coronavirus pandemic that would keep furloughed workers on the payroll, but no decision has been made yet, a labour ... ( read original story ...)
Koike seeks cooperation on shorter business hours
The Tokyo Governor has renewed her call for cooperation with a request for restaurants and other establishments in the capital to close early to curb coronavirus infections. In Tokyo, all ... ( read original story ...)
Pandemic Woes Keep Japan’s Service Sector in Decline at Start of Third Quarter: PMI
The survey also showed firms shed more jobs and new export business contracted further. Japan fell into recession for the first time in 4-1/2 years in the first quarter. Preliminary gross domestic ... ( read original story ...)
Bain Just Invested in Japanese Payments Company Hey. Here’s Why.
Bain and Hey have a longstanding relationship. The private-equity firm is using its inaugural Bain Tech Opportunities fund to invest in Hey. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Payments Firm Hey Nets Series E Funding Led By Bain Capital
Japanese eCommerce and payments platform hey has completed a funding round from Bain Capital, PayPal Ventures and others for more digital payments help. ( read original story ...)
Earthquakes today MAPPED: Turkey, Alaska and Japan hit by savage earthquakes
Turkey, Alaska and Japan have all been hit by strong earthquakes today. Turkey was struck by an earthquake today, Tuesday, August 4, measuring magnitude-5.2 on the Richter scale. The earthquake ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Tuesday: Noah Lyles Sounds Off On Monaco, Music And Why He Had Masks Before They Were A Necessity
Each Tuesday leading up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, which will be held in the summer ... how he works with his family, how he handles his business. I definitely have a lot of ... ( read original story ...)
Here’s what to expect from Tokyo Tatemono’s earnings report
Disclaimer | Commerce Policy | Made In NYC | Stock quotes by finanzen.net On August 4, Tokyo Tatemono will report Q2 earnings. Wall Street analysts expect Tokyo Tatemono will release earnings per ... ( read original story ...)
Lacking guidance from Tokyo, Kansai firms take own virus steps
However, it started to ask more employees to telework again in July and has reimposed its ban on nonurgent business trips ... teleworking rate from 30 percent to 70 percent at offices in Tokyo, Osaka, ... ( read original story ...)
Dollar inches up to around ¥106 in Tokyo trading
The dollar moved up slightly to levels around ¥106 in Tokyo trading Tuesday, on the back of higher stock prices. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥105.91-93, ... ( read original story ...)
Why even imperfect technology is important for Japan’s earthquake watchers
And the effect — of being forced by advancing technology to consider some horrendous natural disaster played out against the perma-crisis of the corona era — also felt cosily familiar. To live in ... ( read original story ...)
Melbourne earthquakes: 1.8 magnitude tremor near Emerald, third in Victoria in a week
“In Australia we have earthquakes, they are not as frequent as active regions like Papua New Guinea or Japan, but still we have earthquakes,” Mr Ghasemi said. “The reason is the plate that we are ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to update English translations of business laws by FY2022
TOKYO -- The Ministry of Justice will update the English translations of Japan's business-related laws and regulations. The full-scale revision, planned to be completed by the end of the fiscal ... ( read original story ...)