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Biggest UK house price jump since 2006; Nikkei’s hits highest year-end close since 1989 – business live
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FOCUS: Profit recovery from pandemic to keep Tokyo stocks on uptrend in 2022
The Tokyo stock market is expected to maintain its upward momentum into 2022, as a continued rebound in corporate earnings will likely offset lingering concerns over global inflation along with ... ( read original story ...)
Japan: New Fund Addresses SME Succession Crisis
The fund seeks to tackle a thorny problem: Many of Japan’s SMEs have been family-run for generations and face an uncertain future because there is no family member to take over the business. The fund ... ( read original story ...)
Japan keeps budget for lawmakers’ trips abroad despite pandemic
Japan’s draft budget for fiscal 2022, starting in April, includes ¥562 million in expenses for overseas fact-finding trips by lawmakers, almost unchanged from previous years, despite almost all such ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s dairy industry to make massive milk donations to food banks, children’s cafeterias
Japan's raw milk producers have a New Year's period problem: demand is plummeting, meaning huge quantities of the white stuff may have to be ... ( read original story ...)
Why Japan’s Economy May Surprise Us In 2022
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has articulated a clearer path to raising the country’s economic game than Shinzo Abe did in nearly eight years. ( read original story ...)
Record Number of Japanese Startups to Present at CES 2022 in Las Vegas
The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) announced today that 52 technology startups will showcase their innovations at CES 2022 from Jan. 5-8 in Las Vegas. The number of startups representing ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Companies Shifting Away from New Year Cards
More and more Japanese companies are shifting away from the traditional practice of sending "nengajo" New Year's greeting cards to their business partners and clients. You are now viewing Nippon.com, ... ( read original story ...)
The case of the missing Japanese role players
Chinese youth living in Tokyo are spending weekends solving whodunits. Did the pandemic stop murder mystery games from taking off with the Japanese? ( read original story ...)
Yearender 2021: From Biles and Osaka to Hamilton and Kohli, athletes find their voice
Racism, mental health, performance anxiety, LGBTQ+ rights… it was the year super-athletes burned their super-athlete robes and made their words count, took on societal and political issues, embraced ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to set compensation rules for business losses due to Fukushima rumors
The Japanese government on Tuesday decided to set, within a year, standards for compensating businesses that suffer losses due to rumors that may emerge when Japan starts discharging treated ... ( read original story ...)
The Gates-Kishida Talks and Japan’s New ‘Global Health Strategy’
The Gates Foundation has consistently collaborated with Japanese business leaders for the betterment of global health. ( read original story ...)
Japanese Car Production Jumped 43 Percent From October to November
Promising news on that front comes from Japan where, as Reuters reports, production of automobiles saw a massive increase of 43.1 percent in November as compared to the previous month. A recovery was ... ( read original story ...)
Japan: Nikkei surges on factory output data, yen depreciation
At closing bell, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average advanced 392.70 points, or 1.37%, to 29,069.16. The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange gained 27.12 points, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan telecom giant NTT to check suppliers for human rights abuses
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone will launch an inspection into its major suppliers for human rights violations from fiscal 2022 to root out unethical practices from its supply chains, company sources ... ( read original story ...)