Tag: business

A hundred years ago today, Tokyo was flattened. The Great Kanto Earthquake, a magnitude 7.9 event, demolished the nascent Japanese capital, killing more than 100,000 people — some 3% of the city’s ... ( read original story ...)

Workers at a major Tokyo department store went on strike on Thursday after talks with management over the planned sale of their company broke down, marking the first major walk-out the country has ... ( read original story ...)

Life on Earth depends on the oceans. By dumping the nuclear-contaminated water into the sea for the next 30 years, Japan could pose a serious threat to marine life and turn the oceans toxic, affecting ... ( read original story ...)

Milk, yogurt, and other dairy products have been subject to a series of price hikes. The background is the rise in various costs, but even a series of price hikes has not been able to cover the cost ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - City Developments Limited on Thursday announced that it has acquired a hotel in Osaka, Japan for 8.5 billion yen (S$78.5 million). Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

Seven & i Holdings Co. announced Aug. 31 that it will sell Sogo-Seibu Co. to a U.S. investment fund on Sept. 1 just as the subsidiary’s flagship department store in Tokyo was being shut down by a rare ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers have eaten Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following the release of treated ... ( read original story ...)

The incident affected only Japanese factories, Toyota said ... This practice minimises costs while improving efficiency and is studied by other manufacturers and at business schools around the world, ... ( read original story ...)

Another turning point came earlier this month when the U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights urged the Japanese government to take action. The group also accused Japan’s mainstream media of ... ( read original story ...)

The Sogo & Seibu labor union is set to go on strike effective Aug. 31 over Sogo & Seibu Co. owner Seven & i Holdings Co.'s plan to sell the m･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

But, as he once disclosed in an interview with Japan’s broadcaster NHK, “We were barely getting any business.” It was a visit to his late father’s hometown in Japan’s Kagawa prefecture, famous for its ... ( read original story ...)

Japan threatened on Tuesday to take China to the World Trade Organization to seek a reversal of Beijing's ban on all of its seafood imports after the release of treated radioactive water from the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is pursuing ambitious efforts to revitalize its semiconductor industry, leveraging international partnerships to reestablish itself as a major player in chip manufacturing and driver of ... ( read original story ...)

All 28 vehicle assembly lines at Toyota’s 14 auto plants in Japan have shut down over a problem in its computer system that deals with incoming auto parts ... ( read original story ...)

Toyota said Tuesday it halted operations at 12 of its 14 factories in Japan due to a system glitch, but that it did not appear to be a cyberattack. "Twelve vehicle factories, affecting 25 lines, are ... ( read original story ...)

Despite their bitter histories, Japanese cuisine is hugely popular in many parts of China and business is booming. There were 789,000 Japanese restaurants in China in 2022, with the sector valued at ... ( read original story ...)