Category: BUSINESS

US Air Force TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's air force scrambled fighter jets to chase away foreign aircraft at record pace in the year to March 31, government figures showed on Thursday, as Chinese military activity in and around the East China Sea escalated. ( read original story ...)

Japan has set ambitious targets to double foreign visitors to 40 million a year by the 2020 Olympics, and business aviation will play a role. The goal behind the increased tourism target is to generate $8 billion in spending by overseas visitors to Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) in Japan on April 12. Keidanren, the biggest business organisation in Japan, consists of more than 1,000 enterprises and 100 associations. At the meeting, Minister Dung said his ongoing visit to Japan ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, April 13 (Reuters) - Japanese companies should use the U.S.-apan economic dialogue as an opportunity to boost investment in factories in the United States and protect market share, a Japanese government adviser said on Thursday. Japan should also ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the upper house parliamentary session, in Tokyo, Japan, March 6, 2017. Thomson Reuters TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Thursday that North Korea may be capable of firing a missile loaded with sarin ... ( read original story ...)

HÀ NỘI — Politburo member and Secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee Đinh La Thăng on Thursday attended the opening ceremony of “HCM City days in Osaka 2017” as part of a visit of HCM City’s high-ranking officials to Japan. The event has ... ( read original story ...)

Shipping rates between Tokyo and Osaka now come to around 2,200 yen to 2,800 yen ($20 to $25) per 100kg -- almost 10% more than four years ago. "Higher rates are necessary for the business to continue," Fukuyama Transporting President Shigehiro Komaru said. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Toshiba will make every effort to avoid being delisted by the Tokyo Stock Exchange ... with billions of dollars in losses from its Westinghouse Electric nuclear business. It reported earnings for the third quarter after missing two previous ... ( read original story ...)

But Osaka politicians and business leaders are also pushing for the central government’s support of local transportation infrastructure projects needed for the Expo. The organizers of the city’s bid have taken steps to improve its chances of being picked. ( read original story ...)

“It’s not a bad idea to build your business after thinking first about what kind of environment you want to be in,” says Watabe, 30, who moved to the city in late 2013 from Tokyo to develop smartphone apps and software that helps anglers find fish ... ( read original story ...)

The nuclear business writedown has pushed Toshiba’s liabilities beyond its level of assets. If the company can’t reverse the situation in the fiscal year just ended, it could face demotion to the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. That would ... ( read original story ...)

"This is death to the family," she tells Business Insider. Other countries face similar problems, including the US, Denmark, China, and Singapore — with fertility rates of 1.87, 1.73, 1.6, and 0.81, respectively — although Japan's case may be the most ... ( read original story ...)

"It's totally unhealthy," says Martin Schulz, an economist at Fujitsu Research Institute in Tokyo. "Japan's business cycle isn't working. When no old companies go out of business, no new ones can come in because there isn't room. The old companies will ... ( read original story ...)

This will be the first visit to Japan by all ASEAN economic ministers in five years. During their stay, the ministers are scheduled to visit companies and research institutes and have meetings with business groups in Tokyo as well as Kyoto, Osaka and ... ( read original story ...)

Railway operators in rural Japan are replacing diesel-guzzling trains with new battery-powered rolling stock, taking advantage of the low-maintenance, environmentally friendly modern technology to cut costs and emissions. East Japan Railway Co. began using ... ( read original story ...)