which started as a brewing factory and has now expanded to other lines of business such as health products, essential oils, and cosmetics. Filipinos love shopping for pasalubong whenever they travel o... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Sales App Soars in IPO — WSJ
This article is being republished as part of our daily reproduction of WSJ.com articles that also appeared in the U.S. print edition of The Wall Street Journal (June 20, 2018). TOKYO -- Japanese flea- ... ( read original story ...)
Takeda considers selling Osaka headquarters to fund Shire purchase
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is considering selling its symbolic Osaka headquarters building to help finance its £46 billion ($60 billion) deal to acquire Irish drugmaker Shire Plc., sources close to the ... ( read original story ...)
I rode superfast bullet trains in China, Japan, Korea, and Russia, and one is better than the rest
Last year, on a trip to Tokyo to launch Business Insider Japan, I rode a bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka. China's bullet trains stood out for their speed and the extensive network; Japan's trains wer... ( read original story ...)
PHL, Japan hold industrial-cooperation dialogue
THE Philippines and Japan conducted the third round of their Industrial Cooperation ... chemicals, information-technology-business process management particularly knowledge-process outsourcing, agribu... ( read original story ...)
Japan executes leader, six followers, of sarin attack doomesday cult
Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa read out the names of the seven at a news conference and said what they had done was “extremely atrocious”. “These crimes ... plunged people not only in Japan but in oth... ( read original story ...)
I rode super-fast bullet trains in China, Japan, Korea, and Russia, and one is better than the rest
Last year, on a trip to Tokyo to launch Business Insider Japan, I rode a bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka. China's bullet trains stood out for their speed and the extensiveness of their network; Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Japan cult leader’s hanging closes chapter on shocking crime
TOKYO (AP) — The executions Friday of a doomsday cult leader and six of his followers closed a chapter on one of Japan's most shocking crimes, the poison gas attack on rush-hour commuters in Tokyo's s... ( read original story ...)
TOKYO | Japan cult leader’s hanging closes chapter on shocking crime
TOKYO — The executions Friday of a doomsday cult leader ... and that is beyond my imagination,” Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa told a news conference. She said the crime affected not only Japan but al... ( read original story ...)
Japan households’ inflation expectations improve in June – central bank survey
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese households’ inflation expectations improved and pessimism about current economic conditions eased slightly, a quarterly survey from the Bank of Japan showed on Friday. The p... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Market to Outperform Europe in 3Q, Discount Bank Says
Israel Discount Bank recommends investors go overweight Japanese equities, underweight euro zone for the next three months based on findings from a model developed by strategist Shmuel Katzavian. Katz... ( read original story ...)
Japan executes cult leader behind 1995 Tokyo subway gas attack
Tokyo police have been placed on special alert and the chief cabinet secretary pledged “all possible measures” for public safety after the half-blind guru who led the Aum Shinrikyo Japanese doomsday c... ( read original story ...)
Stock Markets From Vietnam to Tokyo Hit by Trade War Contagion
In the U.S. versus China trade conflict, China isn’t the only loser for equity investors. Asian markets from Shanghai to Tokyo -- and even Ho Chi Minh City -- have been the biggest casualties ahead of ... ( read original story ...)
TOKYO | The Latest: Japanese minister calls cult’s crimes heinous
She signed the execution order on Tuesday. The cult’s most notorious crime was the release of sarin gas on Tokyo subways in 1995. The attack killed 13 people and sickened more than 6,000 others. 11:50 ... ( read original story ...)
Japan hangs seven members of doomsday cult that attacked subway with sarin
Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa read out the names of the seven at a news conference and said what they had done was “extremely atrocious”. “These crimes ... plunged people not only in Japan but in oth... ( read original story ...)
Japan cult leader behind gas attack, followers are executed
and I wanted the authorities and experts to learn more from them," she told a televised news conference. "I regret that is no longer possible." The cult claimed 10,000 members in Japan and 30,000 in R... ( read original story ...)