Tag: business

The cumulative number of business failures in Japan triggered by the coronavirus pandemic came to 1,026 between January and August, Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd. said Wednesday. Bankruptcies in the ... ( read original story ...)

Business sentiment of workers in jobs sensitive to Japan's economic trends experienced the sharpest downtrend in one and a half years in August, as the nation recorded consecutive all-time highs of ... ( read original story ...)

The key Nikkei index of Tokyo stocks rose for the eighth consecutive day to a nearly six-month high above the 30,000 threshold, lifted by hopes for a normalization of pandemic-hit economic activities ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government is looking to ... Suga is set to make a final assessment of where restrictions on business activity should remain in place before announcing the decision at a ... ( read original story ...)

Chiba, Saitama and Kanagawa — are likely to remain under the measure, while Osaka's governor has also said an extension is "unavoidable." ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's economy is growing faster than initially thought. Over the April-to-June quarter it expanded at an annual rate of 1.9%. That's ahead of forecasts, and way up on the initial reading of 1.3%. ( read original story ...)

The government is looking to decide on Sept. 9 on extending the COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo and other metropolitan areas where hospitals remain under strain despite gradually falling ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka and KINLÒ are officially in business! The 23-year-old’s passion project has finally come to fruition in the form of a skincare brand. KINLÒ was created due to Osaka’s own experience with ... ( read original story ...)

Four-time Grand Slam tennis champion and activist Naomi Osaka launches KINLÒ, a functional skincare brand that is formulated specifically for people with melanated skin. As a first time CEO, Osaka ... ( read original story ...)

The tennis star chats exclusively with ESSENCE about the debut of her skincare line that pays homage to her Haitian and Japanese roots. ( read original story ...)

Urban regeneration and tourism development are habitually touted as central reasons for a city to host the Olympics. Research shows that local people, however, often fail to benefit ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 briefly broke 30,000 for the first time in five months on growing expectations for a fresh injection of stimulus after Japan’s prime minister said he would step aside, paving the ... ( read original story ...)

Stay in the race. Keep swimming. Never give up. In our professional lives, we’re regularly met with challenges or roadblocks big and small: economic downturns, issues with distribution or production, ... ( read original story ...)

Asahi Kasei Corporation has committed its support in JustLight with another round of investment. This comes after JustLight was awarded ... ( read original story ...)

Gunze publicizes a video of its efforts in the plastic film business via website aiming for a world of zero plastic waste. ( read original story ...)

Japans largest business lobby, known as Keidanren, has urged the government to promptly consider exempting overseas arrivals who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 from quarantine and shortening ... ( read original story ...)