Category: BUSINESS

Qantas will utilise its Airbus A330 on the route three times weekly, giving flyers access to Business and Economy Class seats. International Chief Executive, Gareth Evans, said the addition of Osaka to the Qantas network offers another gateway for ... ( read original story ...)

An elderly man communicates with his granddaughter via the new humanoid robot called “Telenoid R1”: Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images The elderly will loom ever larger in business strategies. Japan has the largest pool of personal financial ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese Nikkei 225 index up 0.1 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng climbed 0.7 percent and the Kospi in South Korea added 0.4 percent. Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed from Tokyo. Business Writer Marley Jay contributed from New York. ( read original story ...)

Looking back on the last 20 years, we have expanded our business by building multiple sites in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. In 2002, we built our first site in Osaka for the purpose of distributing the heavy traffic load from Tokyo metropolitan area to Kansai ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is about to break itself off a piece of that Kit Kat business. (Bad joke, but you get it ... Takagi and the newest of these shops is in Tokyo's shopping district, Ginza, and opened on Monday. The brand is the top-selling chocolate in the country ... ( read original story ...)

An economics professor, he quit the university in 1959 and went into business, constructing office buildings in Tokyo’s Minato ward. He had 65 office buildings with 7.7 million square feet of floor space when Forbes first named his fortune the world’s ... ( read original story ...)

The United States has indicated it will impose additional sanctions on Chinese companies doing business with North Korea. The new sanctions by the Japanese government will be levied on five organizations, including two Chinese firms and nine individuals ... ( read original story ...)

Well, they just took delivery of their first flagship Airbus A350-900 on July 13, and one week ago confirmed the rumors that the first scheduled route would be Detroit to Tokyo Narita starting ... probably a marked up Business Class price for the suites ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Global shares were mostly higher Thursday ... The euro rose to $1.1726 from $1.1637, and the British pound rose to $1.3138 from $1.3117. AP Business Writer Stan Choe contributed from New York. ( read original story ...)

Japan is likely to impose an emergency tariff on frozen beef from the United States — starting next month — in response to a spike in imports, a government source said. The measure, designed to protect domestic farmers from sudden increases in imports ... ( 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 ...)

Capsule hotels are a quirky, not to mention affordable, type of accommodation whenever you are in Japan, whether it’s for business or pleasure ... Apart from its Tokyo branch, it can also be found in Kyoto and Fukuoka. This capsule hotel has been ... ( read original story ...)

LONDON & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Prism, the company delivering the world’s most successful digital workforce, today announced its further expansion into the Asia-Pacific region with a new sales and support hub in Tokyo, Japan. The company also ... ( read original story ...)

“When I started this business in 1999, we hardly saw any foreign customers … it’s really different,” said Yui, adding that he expects that half of the customers at the new women-only facility will be inbound tourists. Tokyo already has a few other ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, July 27 (Reuters) - Benchmark TOCOM rubber futures dropped on Thursday, weighed down by an overnight slide in Shanghai futures and a firmer yen against the U.S. dollar. FUNDAMENTALS * The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) rubber contract for January ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, July 27, 2017 - Kobe Steel ... compliance and other aspects of business management. KSEA will also centralize financial management and further promote coordination within the Kobe Steel Group companies in Southeast Asia and South Asia. ( read original story ...)