TOKYO Brazilian President Michel Temer told a top Japanese business lobby in Tokyo on Wednesday he would like to open up Brazil's markets and promote international investment there. Temer, making the first visit to Japan by a Brazilian head of state in 11 ...http://japanbizz.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=38&action=trash&_wpnonce=3778aa113e ( read original story ...)
Japan investors in dilemma over US bonds as hedging costs bite
Japanese investors may soon be forced out of their U.S. debt investments as currency hedging costs soar on the prospect of higher interest rates and tougher U.S. money market regulations. With returns on U.S. Treasuries falling to around zero percent after ... ( read original story ...)
Business tops Abe’s talks with Brazil’s Temer
Earlier Wednesday, Temer also met with officials from Keidanren, otherwise known as the Japan Business Federation, a powerful Japanese business lobby, to seek investments. Brazil’s once rapidly-growing economy took a hit amid slowing in other emerging ... ( read original story ...)
Why Japan has the best navy in Asia
Writing for The National Interest, Kyle Mizokami recently made a solid case for Japan's Maritime Self Defense Force (MSDF) as the best navy in all of Asia. While China fields a larger, ever modernizing navy with huge stores of cruise missiles and land ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Watanabe elected president of gymnastics federation
Watanabe becomes the first Asian to head FIG and is the first Japanese president of an Olympic international federation since Ichiro Ogimura headed the International Table Tennis Federation from 1987-1994. Watanabe is a sports business management professional. ( read original story ...)
Australia and Japan jointly targeting ASEAN countries
The sustained economic growth in south-east Asia is becoming a new focus for companies involved in Australia's oldest business relationship in Asia with Japan. Potential co-operation between Japanese and Australian companies in south-east Asia was a key ... ( read original story ...)
International forum on sports, art and business kicks off in Kyoto, Tokyo
An international conference on sports, arts and business kicks off in Japan on Wednesday as part of the government’s efforts to create momentum leading up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and beyond. The World Forum on Sport and Culture, hosted by the Ministry ... ( read original story ...)