Category: BUSINESS

Finnair flies from London Heathrow, Manchester and Edinburgh to Tokyo Narita, via Helsinki, with fares from £675 in economy class and £2,500 in business class return. To book go to www.finnair.com or call +44 208 001 01 01 for more information. ( read original story ...)

For many, a traditional after-work drink presents the challenge of tiptoeing a fine line between remaining professional and letting your hair down. But in Japan, it appears that one does not necessarily preclude the other. Drinking in the country ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese general trading house Itochu is pressing ahead with a strategic selection and concentration policy for its Dole fresh produce and packaged foods business, which it purchased four years ago. Thanks partly to cost reductions due to a ... ( read original story ...)

Abe made the remark on a Japanese television program following China’s hosting of a two-day international forum on the “One Belt, One Road” cross-continental infrastructure development plan the AIIB is set to finance. Japan and the United States ... ( read original story ...)

Japan government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said ... "While we believe that the successful sale of its chip business is indispensable for Toshiba to remain a going concern, hurdles to realizing such a goal are increasing," said Masako Kuwahara, a senior ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japan's government said on Tuesday it wanted Toshiba Corp and partner Western Digital Corp to cooperate, expressing concern about an escalating dispute between the two that threatens to derail the sale of Toshiba's chip unit. Western Digital has ... ( read original story ...)

That doesn’t dent Shiraishi’s faith in how much further his company and Japan can reach in the aerospace business. Though Kawasaki is perhaps best known for its motorcycles, it’s an industrial goliath that makes ships, trains, jet engines and ... ( read original story ...)

The 400.3 billion yen write-down, which saddled the postal group with its first net loss since the 2007 privatization, may have stymied plans to turn the real estate business into a growth engine by purchasing one of Japan's biggest developers. The postal ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 16 (Reuters) - Japanese ethylene production in April rose 3.7 percent from the same month a year earlier to 549,800 tonnes, data from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry showed on Tuesday. Ethylene, made from naphtha, is a basic ... ( read original story ...)

A Kiwi wool company has been exporting to Japan for over 20 years, a market often considered difficult to enter for exporters. New Zealand Merino general manager Mike Hargadon said the key to sustaining a long term relationship in Japan was to ... ( read original story ...)

Sharing meals is a meaningful tool for trust building in nearly all cultures. But in some cultures, sharing drinks — particularly alcoholic drinks — is equally important. I once conducted a training program for a German couple moving to Japan, assisted ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 11 Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) will seek partners for its nuclear business with the goal of beginning cooperation in the financial year starting April 2020, under a plan submitted to the government for approval on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

Japanese electronics maker Toshiba is facing resistance from its U.S. joint venture partner Western Digital over Toshiba's plans to sell its computer-chip business to anyone else, and Toshiba is fighting back. Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp. needs cash from such ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Japan—The Philippine team, composed of the information and communications technology (ICT) and business-process management (BPM) companies, on Tuesday organized an IT–BPM seminar and prearranged a business-to-business (B2B) meeting in Osaki ... ( read original story ...)