Tag: business

Yakuza and Asia Times go way back together, to the daily's very first day. The Japanese gangsters, then burrowing ever deeper into legitimate bus ... ( read original story ...)

ALI technologies' President said the XTURISMO, which can reach a top speed of 80km/h, would prove popular in the Middle East. ( read original story ...)

Japanese nonlife insurers have suspended undertaking new contracts entirely for domestic firms that operate in Russia, affected by Moscow's countermeasures against economic sanctions following its ... ( read original story ...)

Bermudian-based Sompo International Holdings Ltd, the global re/insurer, has appointed Kenneth Reilly as head of its new Tokyo office. Mr Reilly joins the company on July 1 as executive ... ( read original story ...)

Nearly two years before Japanese fashion titan Yusaku Maezawa embarked on his recent tourist visit to the International Space Station, he made global headlines for launching a worldwide search for a ... ( read original story ...)

Business sentiment among workers with jobs sensitive to economic developments in Japan increased in March, the first time in three months following the lifting of all anti-COVID-19 measures on ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Tokyo have arrested four men on suspicion of forcible obstruction of business after they barged into a coronavirus vaccination clinic and disrupted the inoculations. The four men, led by ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei Asia took home five honors Thursday at the annual Best in Business Awards run by the U.S. Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. The Tokyo-based media outlet scored three wins, ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Nikkei index logged its worst week in close to a month, weighed by worries from the impact of aggressive policy tightening by the U.S. Federal Reserve, the conflict in Ukraine, and lockdowns ... ( read original story ...)

Nishida Ad is an exciting new service by the Tokyo-based start-up Lemon Jam. It promises an unprecedented and unparalleled level of advertising penetration thanks to the lackadaisical lifestyle of ... ( read original story ...)

Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe star in Tokyo Vice, where the city is a noirish landscape of crime reporters, cops on the job, and yakuza mobsters operating in the shadows. ( read original story ...)

Japan held a total of about 470 million barrels of petroleum ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals ... ( read original story ...)

Among topics for discussion will be emerging plans for a possible separate listing of Renault's electric-vehicle unit. ( read original story ...)

OSAKA ORGANIC CHEMICAL INDUSTRY will be releasing earnings Q1 on April 8.Analysts predict earnings per share of ¥44.60.Track OSAKA ORGANIC ... ( read original story ...)

If you’ve been around long enough, you may remember eyeglass retailer LensCrafters catchy advertising slogan, “Glasses in about hour!” Houston-based startup, Venus Aerospace promises it’ll transport ... ( read original story ...)

The premium for aluminium shipments to Japanese buyers for April to June was set at $172 a tonne, down 2.8% from the previous quarter, as weak demand in Japan and China outweighed concerns of supply ... ( read original story ...)