Category: BUSINESS

TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's lead in next month's election ... smaller opposition groups to explore possibilities of cooperation. A survey in the leading business daily Nikkei last weekend had showed 44 percent of Japanese plan to vote for the ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended a ceremony marking the anniversary of diplomatic ties between Japan and China as well as China’s national day, in a display of his intent to improve delicate relations between the Asian neighbors. Abe was the ... ( read original story ...)

China is moving forward with a plan to crack down on cryptocurrencies, but Japan is singing a different tune. Japan's Financial Services Agency on Friday granted 11 cryptocurrency exchanges licenses to legally operate in the country, according to reporting ... ( read original story ...)

The declining U.S. frozen beef exports to Japan were offset by an almost 55 percent increase of exports of chilled beef, as Japanese business looked for alternatives following the price hike due to the emergency tariff, Reuters reported. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday called a snap ... Her Party of Hope shares policy space with the business-friendly LDP, but Koike has staked out different stances on two issues likely to appeal to voters. She wants to freeze a planned ... ( read original story ...)

Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of Keidanren (the Japan Business Federation), welcomed Abe’s resolve to go through with the tax hike as planned and showed his understanding of Abe’s envisaged change in the use of the additional revenue expected from the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Toshiba, the huge but struggling Japanese conglomerate, traded some of its size for financial security on Thursday by selling off most of its profitable microchip business. It was not the way the company, which has long been accused of being ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese inflationary continue to build. According to data released by Japan’s statistics bureau, headline consumer price inflation (CPI) rose by 0.7% in the year to August, leaving it at the highest level seen since March 2015. Core CPI, that which ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Toshiba and a consortium led by Bain Capital Private Equity signed a deal Thursday for the sale of the Japanese electronics company's computer memory chip business, a move long opposed by Toshiba's U.S. joint venture partner Western Digital. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s core consumer prices rose 0.7 percent in August from a year earlier, marking the eighth straight month of annual gains, in an encouraging sign for a central bank struggling to meet its 2 percent inflation target. The rise in the ... ( read original story ...)

The 407 had it in plenty while the Japanese quarter fell hugely short on this score. In a price-sensitive business such as cargo carriers, affordable spare parts are crucial for viability. Fast forward to the present and it is interesting to see how some ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s yield-hungry investors are helping turn companies ... Its endoscopes have about a 70 percent global market share, and it’s a “very competitive” business, said Yuta Ishinoda, a senior analyst at R&I. Olympus’s net income in the quarter ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA, Japan & SAN DIEGO & STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) (TSE: 4502), Karolinska Institutet (“KI”) and The Structural Genomics Consortium (“SGC”) today announced a combined pre-competitive and ... ( read original story ...)

In Tokyo, an ordinance took effect in July to strengthen regulations, requiring JK business operators to submit notifications and banning them from hiring people under age 18. Similar regulations are planned in Osaka and Kanagawa. The NPA will carry out an ... ( read original story ...)