Tag: business

Japan's ruling coalition is set to agree on an extra budget to fund economic relief measures to help households and small business cope with surging fuel costs, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

A popular Japanese beef bowl chain, Yoshinoya Holdings Co., has fired an executive over sexist remarks he made about a marketing strategy aiming to get young women “hooked” on its products as though ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's weakening yen raised further alarm in Tokyo on Wednesday as the government reported a bigger-than-expected trade deficit largely due to soaring costs for imports of oil, food and other ... ( read original story ...)

Amid mounting sanctions against Russia, Japanese electronics company Toshiba Corporation announced it is halting new orders and investments in Moscow. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s health ministry on Tuesday formally approved Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine, a fourth foreign-developed tool to combat the infections as the country sees signs of a resurgence led ... ( read original story ...)

There’s a great story the sales trainer Zig Ziglar used to tell about the importance of sales. He called it “The Proud Profession” and described it from the perspective of a person who wants to buy a ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese retailer Seven & I Holdings Co , facing pressure from activist investors for structural reforms, has nominated a former executive of Uber Technologies Inc to join its board of directors, the ... ( read original story ...)

TO wipe out superheroes, the villain of the Pixar movie The Incredibles had a fiendish plot: He would make them ubiquitous. ( read original story ...)

The iconic Japanese school bag has spawned an entire industry of its own, with manufacturers offering an endless range of customizable options, and some models even selling for more than 100,000 yen. ( read original story ...)

As just one example, beloved grocery chain Trader Joe’s has been practicing kaizen since 2007, when CEO John Bane adopted it in order to help the company expand.  It’s not a coincidence that ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO : Japanese business lobby Keidanren's head Masakazu Tokura said on Monday it was premature for the central bank to debate tweaking monetary policy, in the wake of the yen's sharp declines ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is increasingly an outlier in a region that is lifting border restrictions and reviving quarantine-free travel. ( read original story ...)

The coronavirus lockdown in Shanghai is forcing Japanese retailers to halt operations in the Chinese commercial and financial hub, wh ... ( read original story ...)

Yen fell to a two-decade low of 126.795 in early Asian trading, before both Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and Fin Min Shunichi Suzuki voiced concerns and caused it to bounce as far as 126.25 ... ( read original story ...)

Do these stocks really represent the best of Japan’s business world? Reaction among investors has been less than kind. “The Sinking of the Tokyo Stock Exchange,” declared the cover of the weekly ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese energy group JERA, one of the world's biggest importers of liquefied natural gas, has taken a step toward a possible expansion of its LNG business to China. ( read original story ...)