Tag: business

Naomi Osaka said rising COVID-19 levels in Tokyo are a ‘big cause for concern’ and she is ‘not really sure’ the Olympics should go ahead this summer. Tokyo is under a state of emergency amid a surge ... ( read original story ...)

Toyota says its profit more than doubled to 777 billion yen, or $7 billion, in the last quarter as the Japanese automaker’s sales recovered from the pandemic. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks fell Wednesday morning as drops on Wall Street for a second consecutive day overnight strengthened worries about the out ... ( read original story ...)

Naoki: Bangladesh at present and Japan in 1971 share almost the same level of GDP per capita (About $2,000). Japan achieved rapid economic growth after the Second World War, particularly in the 1960s ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's governing party is renewing its push for its long-cherished goal of revising the country's pacifist constitution, saying effective anti-coronavirus measures such as lockdowns aren't possible ... ( read original story ...)

Panasonic Corp. is expecting net profit to rise 27.2% to ¥210 billion ($1.9 billion) in the current business year through next March, helped by growth in its automotive segment that supplies electric ... ( read original story ...)

SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434, “SoftBank”) today announced that it is forming a capital and business alliance with Axiata Digital Advertising Sdn. Bhd. (“ADA”), a Kuala Lumpur-based data and AI company ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, will soon replace its chairman at one of the most challenging junctures in the top corporate lobby's history. Sumitomo Chemical Chairman Masakazu Tokura ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's benchmark Nikkei average falls 2.00 percent to 28,927.81 on Tuesday, while the broader Topix shed 1.51 percent to 1,922.75. T Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the ... ( read original story ...)

Seven-Eleven Japan is advancing its digital transformation strategy with Seven Central, its data cloud platform built on Google Cloud that consolidates and analyzes data from its 21,000 stores across ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan Business Federation said Monday that Masakazu Tokura, chairman of Sumitomo Chemical Co., will replace Hiroaki Nakanishi as ... ( read original story ...)

Mayumi Kotani grew up in southern Japan, in Kyoto prefecture, where women and men carried an equal load. In her small fishing village, about 100 meters from the sea, her mother was an active worker, ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Panasonic Corp expects operating profit to jump by almost a third this business year as economic recovery from coronavirus lockdowns spurs ... ( read original story ...)

Hiroaki Nakanishi, the head of the Japan Business Federation known as Keidanren, will step down at the beginning of June owing to ill health, local media quoted sources close to the matter as saying ... ( read original story ...)

As many as 296 among some 48,700 eateries in Osaka Prefecture had been found serving alcohol as of May 4 in defiance of a national government ... ( read original story ...)

A hacking attack that hit Coincheck in 2018 put a wet blanket on a growing cryptocurrency frenzy, but local players feel the industry has now turned a corner. ( read original story ...)