Category: BUSINESS

TOKYO: Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index on Tuesday morning rose past 20,000 for the first time in six weeks after Wall Street saw another record close and a weak yen lifted exporters. The bellwether Nikkei 225 index climbed 1.45 percent, or 288.06 points, to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co Ltd , Japan's top electric-arc furnace steelmaker, said on Tuesday it would raise its product prices for a second month in October due to higher overseas prices and a tight domestic market. The ... ( read original story ...)

Taking place at the Global Business Hub in the heart of Tokyo, the Money20/20 Tokyo roadshow aims to engage with and learn from the Japanese FinTech ecosystem in advance of the inaugural Money20/20 Asia conference - to be held in Singapore, March 13-15 th ... ( read original story ...)

Read expert review Yurakucho, a bustling business district – loosely linking Hibiya to Tokyo Station – is home to countless shops, restaurants (from the exclusively high-end to the tiny and atmospheric salaryman-packed venues that sit beneath the ... ( read original story ...)

based business is banking on the growing popularity of the maitake ... an invitation from Joe Fontana while the former London mayor was on a trade mission to Japan. "Right now we are preparing to sell," said Odaira, speaking through his translator and ... ( read original story ...)

Investment Boost Away from the media glare, on the ground there was some serious business afoot, with both JICA and Jetro ( Japan External Trade Organisation) playing a critical role. Some 450 Japanese honchos congregated at the Gandhinagar summit earlier ... ( read original story ...)

“So the business is getting tougher every year.” And in Kawakami village, also in western Japan, the aging owner of the last pump stand handed the business for free to the village, and a public cooperative reopened it in April, offering various ... ( read original story ...)

"This is death to the family," Harvard sociologist Mary Brinton recently told Business Insider. Japan's centenarian population has been rising year over year since 1971, when there were just 339 centenarians. Last year, government data showed there were ... ( read original story ...)

of India told Business Standard. Exports of soymeal - a processed soyabean product rich in proteins used as animal feed - to Japan greatly reduced in the wake of sustained high price compared to a low international price in 2014-15 and 2015-16. ( read original story ...)

It is a real pleasure to be with the business community of Japan and India. That too in the presence of a great friend: Friend of India; Friend of Gujarat and my personal friend Mr. Shinzo Abe Please give a big hand for this great friend and a great leader. ( read original story ...)

Japanese business leaders have concerns about finding enough skilled workers to fill openings at their Indiana-based operations, including in Columbus. So as part of Indiana’s seven-day trade mission to Japan, which ends today, Gov. Eric Holcomb worked ... ( read original story ...)

Addressing a gathering of business community from both the countries, Modi termed it ‘deepening of the ties between the two countries’. Striking a personal chord by terming the Japanese counterpart as his “personal friend”, Modi said ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo: Tokyo stocks were higher on Friday morning with investors keeping their cool despite North Korea's launching its second missile over Japan in less than a month. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index gained 0.21 percent, or 40.95 points, to 19,848.39 in ... ( read original story ...)

AusBT review: Qantas Airbus A330 Business Suite business class Qantas flight QF33 will depart Sydney at 9:30am on Thursdays and Saturdays to reach Osaka at 5:25pm, while on Mondays, passengers will leave Sydney at a more leisurely 1:25pm for a 9:20pm ... ( read original story ...)

Financing by Japan also means business farmed out to companies such as Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., Hitachi Ltd. and East Japan Railway Co. and an opportunity lost for China’s CRRC Corp Ltd. and European manufacturers including Alstom SA. For Japan ... ( read original story ...)

AHMADABAD, India — India and Japan have begun work on a high-speed train in the western Indian state of Gujarat, during a visit by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The "bullet" train will link Ahmadabad, the main commercial city in Indian Prime ... ( read original story ...)