Category: BUSINESS

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shiseido Company, Limited (hereinafter “Shiseido”)(TOKYO:4911) supports “teamLab: A Forest Where Gods Live Art Exhibition presented by Shiseido”, hosted by Mifuneyama Rakuen and teamLab Inc. (hereinafter “teamLab”). ( read original story ...)

Koike said Tokyo plans to increase capacity at day care centers for children and bolster support for female business leaders. Akira Matsumoto, chairman and CEO of snack food maker Calbee Inc., said Japan needs more leaders like Koike, who has become the ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo — Japan’s hawkish defence minister resigned on Friday ... weeks over controversies including claims that he showed favouritism to a friend in a business deal, immediately apologised to the nation over the saga. "I feel a keen responsibility ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese business executives have mixed feelings — a combination of anticipation and anxiety — about the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Some have high hopes for an expected boost to economic growth, while others are concerned about a possible ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)