according to a final tally by the Japanese Business Federation (Keidanren). The average bonus fell 2.98 percent from a year earlier to ¥878,172, the first drop since 2012, after the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, according to the tally ... ( read original story ...)
Power Assist Suit Demonstration Experiment at the 2017 Para Powerlifting Japan Cup [Panasonic]
FUKUOKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic Corporation and ATOUN Inc. (with headquarters in Nara City, Nara Prefecture; represented by Hiromichi Fujimoto) together conducted a demonstration experiment at the "2017 Para Powerlifting Japan Cup" held at ... ( read original story ...)
Marriott opens five new properties in Japan
Marriott International has partnered with the Mori Trust Group and continues to expand their presence in Japan. The properties are spread across the country and natural resource from lakes to beaches to moutain’s to cities - they have covered the ... ( read original story ...)
Airbnb rival Tujia to partner with Rakuten in push for larger share of Japan ‘minpaku’ market
Airbnb Inc.’s Chinese rival Tujia announced Wednesday it will be partnering with e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. to expand its business in Japan following the government’s recent passage of a law giving the green light to private short-term minpaku ... ( read original story ...)
Japan service sector growth softens in July, new hiring slows: PMI
Growth in new business eased but was still solid, with the reading dipping to 52.7 from 53.2. Companies continued to hire new staff but also at a slower pace. The services sector PMI comes shortly after the final manufacturing PMI which showed Japan's ... ( read original story ...)
A limping Japan Display scrambles to join the OLED party
TOKYO If one company symbolizes the decline of Japan's once-dominant display industry ... APPLE SHOCK In a medium-term business plan unveiled at the end of 2016, the company targeted sales of 1.1 trillion yen and an operating profit of 88 billion yen ... ( read original story ...)
Honda leads Japan in planned R&D investments for 2017
TOKYO -- Honda Motor tops the list of 20 Japanese companies with the largest planned increase ... The survey also rated expectations of which new technologies would create business opportunities. AI ranked highest at an average of 4.5 out of 5, followed ... ( read original story ...)
A hillside fell to the ocean, triggering a tsunami nearly as high as Big Ben
There, a portion of hillside fell about a kilometre to the ocean below, triggering a tsunami that reached a height of over 90 meters — almost as high as London’s Big Ben (96 meters), and well above the runup of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. The tsunami ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 4.5 quake hits Tokyo area, no tsunami warning
TOKYO: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.5 hit the Tokyo area on Thursday but no tsunami warning was issued, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. The quake was centred in southern Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, according to the agency. ( read original story ...)
North Korean missile tests spook neighbours, but ‘what to do?’
Attitudes in Japan, South Korea and China toward the threat vary, but likely reflect a sangfroid partly born of living with the legacy of the Cold War and ever present risks of huge earthquakes and other natural disasters. Many Japanese have mixed feelings ... ( read original story ...)
Sony sees recovery with a nearly quadrupling of profit
Also helping Sony's bottom line was the absence of the damage it suffered from the April 2016 earthquake in southwestern Japan that shut down its semiconductor plant, and gains from insurance recoveries related to that quake, it said. Sony was long an ... ( read original story ...)
New Alaska Seafloor Map Suggests High Tsunami Danger
This produces a big earthquake, and the ocean floor may jump up or down like a released spring. That motion transfers to the overlying water, creating a surface wave. The 2011 Japan tsunami was a surprise, because it came partly on a "creeping" segment of ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea’s neighbours resigned to missile tests
Attitudes in Japan, South Korea and China toward the threat vary, but likely reflect a sangfroid partly born of living with the legacy of the Cold War and ever present risks of huge earthquakes and other natural disasters. Many Japanese have mixed feelings ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 open mascot design competition to public
Tokyo 2020 had revealed in March that the names will come from creative professionals, rather than from the general public. Mascots are a popular element of modern Japanese culture, usually created to promote a particular region, event or business. ( read original story ...)
Asia shares fall as Apple’s glossy earnings effect fades
TOKYO (AP) — Asian markets mostly fell Thursday as the rally from news of Apple's strong earnings that spurred record highs for the Dow Jones industrial average faded. Myriad worries over China's rising debt, weaker commodity prices and possible rising ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Abe to launch new cabinet after scandals
Tokyo, Aug 3 (AFP) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today ... including allegations of favouritism to a friend in a business deal — which Abe strongly denies. Abe will reportedly reappoint former defence minister Itsunori Onodera to the post after ... ( read original story ...)