Category: BUSINESS

TOKYO, April 3 (Reuters) - Japanese big manufacturers' business sentiment improved for a second straight quarter to hit a one-and-a-half year high in March, a closely watched central bank survey showed, a sign the benefits of an export-driven economic ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – A hotel with 153 high-end capsule-type guest rooms ... offers two types of rooms — one dubbed “first class” with 4.4 sq. meters of floor space and a “business class” room about half that size. Though the rooms are much more spacious ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO The bankruptcy of Westinghouse Electric Co may be a blow to Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) international nuclear ambitions, but the Japanese conglomerate still has a profitable business at home. Toshiba, whose businesses range from memory chips to rail ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's ruling party urged the government Thursday to consider arming the country with more advanced and offensive military capabilities, such as striking enemy targets with cruise missiles, further loosening the self-defense-only posture Japan has ... ( read original story ...)

Hotel Review: The Peninsula Tokyo. Japan Airlines Business Class Cabin and Seat Selection I recently flew Japan Airlines from New York JFK to Tokyo. My seat was 9K, a window seat on the right hand side. The business cabin was full, and it was a morning ... ( read original story ...)

Toshiba, which bought Westinghouse in 2006 for $5.4-billion now faces months of complex negotiations over the fate of its U.S. nuclear business, a discussion that could embroil the U.S. and Japanese governments. The U.S. government has guaranteed loans of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's ruling party urged the government Thursday to consider arming itself with more advanced and offensive capability, such as striking enemy targets with cruise missiles, further loosening the self-defense-only military posture the country has had ... ( read original story ...)

Edo Japan began as a venture to help the late Rev. Susumu Ikuta ... Read his columns online at calgaryherald.com/business. He can be reached at 403-830-4622 or by email at info@davidparker.ca. ( read original story ...)

More than 1,200 Japanese firms are operating in Britain, according to the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), the country’s largest business lobby. “I hope efforts will be made to prevent any disadvantage,” said Keidanren head Sadayuki ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The first round of competitive bidding for Toshiba's memory chip business closed Wednesday, attracting 10 or so possible buyers. The embattled Japanese conglomerate, sinking deeper into negative net worth after U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Slush Tokyo, a sister expo to the larger annual startup conference in Finland, has grown into an event capable of lifting next-generation Japanese enterprises onto the global stage. The two-day show kicked off Wednesday with a record 500 ventures ... ( read original story ...)

Overseas companies that invest in the UK issued a flurry of warnings on Tuesday about the threat Brexit poses to their businesses, signalling their growing concern as the UK prepares to start the formal process of leaving the EU. Forty European business ... ( read original story ...)

According to the ordinance, the subway operations will be transferred to a new company of which the city will take full control while the bus business will be handed over to Osaka City Bus Co., a city-affiliated firm. The privatization of the two transport ... ( read original story ...)