Tag: business

With games canceled by the pandemic this year, sports leagues and teams were forced to adapt—and adapt they did. Here are some of our favorite stories from a tumultuous year. ( read original story ...)

It sounds like a far-fetched plot from a Hollywood film but, as he tells John Arlidge, former Nissan boss, Carlos Ghosn’s escape, just before new year’s eve two years ago from house arrest in Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Companies that arrange charter flights are getting a growing number of inquiries, with one flight operator planning to increase its fleet size. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks are likely to climb in 2021 with progress in global COVID-19 vaccinations helping to improve the business climate and Japan's accommodative monetary policies remaining in place. Analysts ... ( read original story ...)

Foreign investors, who have been net buyers of Japanese stocks in recent months, are likely to remain buyers in line with a global economic recovery. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks are likely to climb in 2021 with progress in global COVID-19 vaccinations heling to improve the business climate and Japan's accommodative monetary policies remaining in place. Analysts ... ( read original story ...)

Chaos, lack of debate and fears of public backlash are thought to have been behind unequal treatment of foreign nationals residing in Japan. ( read original story ...)

Nike has released a moving ad focusing on Naomi Osaka, Kevin Durant, Sabrina Ionescu, and other Nike athletes as they compete with motivations bigger than themselves. Osaka dominated the tennis world ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing Winter Olympics has been nearing as the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games, already delayed by one year, is feared to be canceled or postponed again with the number of new coronavirus infections rising ... ( read original story ...)

More time at home, reduced mobility and billionaire Masayoshi Son helped drive stocks in Japan in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic became the dominating force separating winners from losers. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks jumped more than two per cent to end at a 30-year high on Tuesday (Dec 29) on hopes for economic recovery following the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Daiwa Securities Group Inc 8601.T plans to open its joint venture securities underwriting business in China in February, capitalizing on increased foreign access to the huge market, Chief ... ( read original story ...)

A 53-year-old former Japanese minister has died of COVID-19, his party said on Monday, becoming the first incumbent lawmaker to succumb to the disease in a nation scrambling to shut its doors to ... ( read original story ...)

Infectious disease experts are increasingly expressing their frustrations at a coronavirus case spike in the capital as the metropolitan government fa ... ( read original story ...)

Top bankers would have to hand over half their earnings to the taxman in Tokyo, making Japan a far less appealing destination than Hong Kong. ( read original story ...)

Over the New Year period, Toshiko Ueno, 52, from the city of Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, will extend a helping hand to people who have fallen on hard times in 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis by ... ( read original story ...)