Tag: business

Japanese retailer Seven & i Holdings has again lived up to a reputation for shrugging off investor calls for better returns. This time, it also provides a reminder that even amid a corporate ... ( read original story ...)

Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough to buoy support for the Liberal Democratic Party? ( read original story ...)

Japan's government said its top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, held a 45-minute phone call with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on U.S. tariffs on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

SkyDrive Inc. ("SkyDrive"), a leading eVTOL (*1) aircraft manufacturer based in Japan, will perform further demonstration flights of the SKYDRIVE (SkyDrive Model SD-05) at the Expo 2025, Osaka, Kansai ... ( read original story ...)

The Guidance Desk in Osaka, Japan facilitates trade, investment, and cultural exchange between Tamil Nadu and Japan. ( read original story ...)

The Expo Association ranks it as the ninth-best foreign pavilion (assuming that Japan’s is naturally best). “A Japanese business magazine [...] ranked us third among all of the 155 participants here ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese shipper Kawasaki Kisen (K-Line) is adjusting its U.S. services and is prepared to reroute more ships away to other regions as it braces for potentially higher U.S. tariffs, CEO Takenori ... ( read original story ...)

As the search for tech talent intensifies, companies are deciding to invest more in regions that offer “more abundant and affordable tech talent.” ... ( read original story ...)

At a luncheon hosted by the Greater Houston Port Bureau last week, Galveston Wharves Port Director and CEO Rodger Rees announced that an undisclosed Japanese company was serious about investing in the ... ( read original story ...)

Genda Gigo Entertainment announced on July 15 that it will close the Akihabara Gigo 1 arcade at the end of August 2025. This was Sega’s flagship arcade and its red building has been a landmark of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s $26 billion deep-sea discovery of cobalt and nickel near Minami-Tori-shima may be rendered obsolete after scientists developed EV batteries that don’t require either metal. Researchers from McGill University created a cheaper, ( read original story ...)

Nissan says it is closing its flagship factory in Oppama, Japan, to cut costs and moving all its production there to another plant in southwestern Japan. ( read original story ...)

Nissan Motor Co said on Tuesday it will stop producing vehicles at its Oppama plant in Japan by March 2028 and transfer operations to its factory in the southern prefecture of Fukuoka as part of a ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield climbed to its highest level since 2008 ahead of an upper house election. ( read original story ...)

Struggling auto giant Nissan said Tuesday it will stop production at its plant at Oppama in Japan at the end of its 2027 fiscal year. ( read original story ...)

Kioxia plans to raise as much as $3 billion via a dollar bond sale that would be its first corporate debt issuance, in the latest sign of investor appetite abroad. ( read original story ...)