Tag: business

Sony Corp will buy AT&T Inc's animation business Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion, the two companies said on Thursday, as the Japanese electronics conglomerate aims to beef up its entertainment content ... ( read original story ...)

Forget surviving just 2020. Some 19 businesses in Japan have been in operation for 1,000 years. Here's what we can learn from them. ( read original story ...)

Japan expects its latest stimulus package will boost the economy by 3.6%, but analysts warn that the number should be approached with caution. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will extend tax breaks on low-emission cars and offer incentives to promote green investment to help Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga meet his carbon-neutral goal, according to ... ( read original story ...)

Out of 150,000 restaurants in Tokyo, Harukor is the only one serving dishes made by the Ainu, a minority group that has faced discrimination ever since, in the wake of centuries of trade, Japan ... ( read original story ...)

"We do not have a clear understanding of the buyer's objective, but we do not believe it can be a coincidence," a Japanese official said. ( read original story ...)

Vantiq today announced that the SoftBank Group is using Vantiq’s real-time application platform as the foundation for the development and deployment of the Tokyo Port City Takeshiba smart building ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. Army Japan ordered its troops to stop anything other than essential activity off its posts around Tokyo on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

Winter bonus payments by Japanese companies for 2020 are set to fall 8.55% from a year earlier, the biggest drop since the global financial crisis in 2009, a survey by Nikkei newspaper showed on ... ( read original story ...)

A bank in a suburb of Osaka is investing in local development and setting a growth target for its home prefecture, offering a new model for how banks could operate under Prime Minister Yoshihide ... ( read original story ...)

London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Singapore once again emerged as the world's most comprehensively attractive cities, in that order, in the Global Power City Index (GPCI) 2020 report. This report is ... ( read original story ...)

While the COVID-19 pandemic has forced a slew of airlines to slash staff and planes, ANA Holdings Inc. and Japan Airlines Co. are expanding the low-cost carrier (LCC) services under their wings. The ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks lost more ground Tuesday, weighed down by persistent profit-taking. The 225-issue Nikkei average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange lost 80.36 points ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will compile a fresh 73.6 trillion yen ($708 billion) economic stimulus package to speed up the country's recovery from its deep coronavirus slump, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

Japan has reported its economy expanded at a 22.9% rate in the last quarter, as businesses and personal spending recovered from pandemic-related shocks in the spring and early summer. ( read original story ...)

Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Group Inc said on Monday it would review its overseas business and book restructuring costs of 87.6 billion yen ($842 million) for the current and next fiscal year. ( read original story ...)