Tag: business

With a greater metropolitan population of 37 million, Tokyo has the second largest urban economy (by GDP) in the world, after New York City; is Japan’s leading business hub, and home to 37 Fortune 500 ... ( read original story ...)

VOV.VN - Vice Chairman of the People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Van Dung on November 6 hosted a reception for a delegation of the Friendship Parliamentarians’ Association of Japan’s Osaka ... ( read original story ...)

Rengo, Japan's largest labor organization, said in October it would demand a pay hike of at least 5 percent in the next shunto negotiations, a stronger expression than the "around 5 percent" target it ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese trading house Itochu posted a 14.5% drop in six-month net profit on Monday but raised its full-fiscal year profit forecast on stronger expectations for its machinery business and the weaker ... ( read original story ...)

The cost will be split among the three parties -- the central government, the Osaka prefectural and city governments, and the business community -- with each shouldering an additional 16.7 billion yen ... ( read original story ...)

The University of Tokyo has called on companies to stop using pressure tactics on job-hunting students to get their preferred candidates to give up considering rival firms. The request by Japan's most ... ( read original story ...)

The University of Tokyo has called on companies to stop using pressure tactics on job-hunting students to get their preferred candida ... ( read original story ...)

Japan may have an early lead in the new semiconductor race. Global giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is ahead of schedule on a new “fab” in the city of Kumamoto. ( read original story ...)

Warren Buffett’s decision to invest billions of dollars in Japan was “a no-brainer” that felt like a gift from God, according to his business partner, CNN reported. ( read original story ...)

In scrapping its hard 10-year bond yield ceiling of 1%, the Bank of Japan has taken a huge step towards dismantling a widespread assumption at the heart of G10 monetary policy for decades - the idea ... ( read original story ...)

The central government on Nov. 2 agreed to shoulder additional construction costs for the increasingly expensive 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo. ( read original story ...)

SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services conglomerate and one of the largest venture capital firms in the East Asian country, has made a $40 million multi-fund commitment to anchor pan-African VC ... ( read original story ...)

Li was seen as a crucial channel of direct communications and a driver of closer economic ties between Japan and China Another Chinese leader in Li's mould is not expected to emerge in an era of Xi ... ( read original story ...)

The government announced on Thursday that it has approved the projected 235 billion yen ($1.6 billion) cost for constructing the venue for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, nearly double the ... ( read original story ...)

With its history of deflation, Japan was always going to be the last to move ... and the speed with which it was abandoned suggests the BOJ under Governor Kazuo Ueda means business. Given that the BOJ ... ( read original story ...)

Toyota’s July-September profit jumped nearly threefold from a year ago as vehicle sales grew around the world and a cheap yen boosted the Japanese automaker’s overseas earnings. ( read original story ...)