In many cases, Japanese companies with high profit gains also registered large sales increases. This helped the Nikkei average rise to a 26-year high. Sony reported a twentysevenfold year-on-year jump in net profit in the July-September period, the highest ... ( read original story ...)
Vietnam Morning News For November 24
is planning a $300-million IPO this year with a target to list in the first quarter of 2018. Vietnam wants Japanese and Osaka firms to expand their operations in the country, especially in farm produce processing and consumption, the support industry ... ( read original story ...)
When Hikurangi subduction zone megathrust triggers tsunami ‘think Japan 2011’
"We need to think Japan 2011 basically, because if our whole plate boundary ruptured it would be a magnitude-9 earthquake," Cochran said. "One thing about reflecting on from the Kaikōura earthquake is we don't want people to think this is the big ... ( read original story ...)
Clean energy: Reinventing Japanese power
RISING like a phoenix from the ashes of the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in March 2011, Fukushima prefecture, the third largest in Japan, is hoping to be a beacon for Japan’s new energy technologies for the future. Efforts under the ... ( read original story ...)
Relief for Tokyo as first new 2020 Olympics venue opens
There was more bad news last month when Olympic organisers admitted that prolonged summer rain had brought high levels of bacteria to a venue earmarked for triathlon and open water swimming. While Tokyo has taken successful measures to slash costs ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka will end sister city ties to San Francisco after US city accepted statue honoring ‘comfort women’ used as sex slaves by the Japanese army
Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura said trust between the two ... Lee signed a document Wednesday formalizing the city's acceptance of the memorial, according to Kyodo News. Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, mostly from Korea but also other ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka to cut ties to San Francisco over ‘comfort women’ statue
... in December after explaining the decision to the Osaka city assembly and holding meetings with top city officials. At a Nov. 24 news conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said about the monument, “It is extremely regrettable.” ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Osaka to snap sister city link with San Francisco over “comfort women” statue
"This is highly regrettable," Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura told reporters ... regrettable," Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference on Friday. "We plan to continue making every effort so that things like this ... ( read original story ...)
Line prices listing at top end of range amid tech IPO drought
Line, which will be the first Japanese company to list new shares in the US since 2000, had already increased the suggested price range for its IPO after stronger-than-expected demand. On the surface, the joint listing could not have come at a worse time. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s Best Bubble Tea
Served hot or cold, jam-packed with fillings or toppings, this crazily popular Taiwan-born drink has taken Tokyo by storm. Many of the top Taiwanese chains have been opening outposts around the city, while trendy cafés also serve up Instagram-worthy boba ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese politician kicked out of meeting for bringing her baby
Japanese politician Yuka Ogata brought her seven-month-old son to a municipal assembly meeting to highlight the difficulties of being a working mom. And it didn’t go well. Wednesday was the first time Ogata’s son Dogen accompanied her to work ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka mayor to terminate six-decade ties as San Francisco designates ‘comfort women’ memorial city property
OSAKA – Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura will end Osaka’s six-decade sister city relationship with San Francisco after the mayor of the U.S. city, Edwin Lee, signed a resolution Wednesday that designates as city property a memorial to “comfort women ... ( read original story ...)
Japan protests San Francisco’s ‘sex slave’ statue decision
The mayor of Japan's second city of Osaka said November 24 he would end sister-city relations with San Francisco after the US TOKYO (AP) — Japan expressed strong regret Friday over San Francisco's decision to give city property status to a statue ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to scrap sister-city relationship with San Francisco over ‘comfort women’ statue
TOKYO—Japan expressed strong regret Friday over San Francisco’s decision to give city property status to a statue commemorating Asian women who worked in military brothels for Japanese troops during World War II, with Osaka declaring it will terminate ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials reports faked quality data
The repeated disclosures of such practices by some of Japan's most respected companies have prompted automakers, aircraft manufacturers and other customers to conduct their own investigations to ensure safety had not been compromised. Mitsubishi Materials ... ( read original story ...)
Russia is complaining that Japan and South Korea are arming themselves against North Korea
Russia's foreign minister complained that the North Korea crisis is causing Japan and South Korea to more heavily arm themselves. South Korea and Japan have expressed interest in getting more US missile defenses. Russia fears that with a global network of ... ( read original story ...)