Tag: business

The Osaka city government requested Tuesday that citizens offer unused raincoats as an alternative to protective gear that is in shor ... ( read original story ...)

The Osaka Municipal Government said it will accept raincoats of any type and color but they have to be unused. “We’d like to seek cooperation from those who have raincoats that have never been used,” ... ( read original story ...)

Total foreign arrivals, which include tourism and business arrivals, plunged to just 193,700 from 2.76 million in the same month last year, the Japan National Tourism Organization said. Wealth of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan could see some 850,000 people seriously sickened by the coronavirus and almost half of them dying if no social distancing or other measures are followed, according to an expert estimate released ... ( read original story ...)

Shiseido is a Japanese cosmetics and personal care company with a portfolio of brands and is the fifth largest cosmetics company globally. Notwithstanding Shise ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has been working out plans to ask a wide range of businesses where people could crowd together to halt operations in･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Every year, students in a mountain village spend months preparing for an elaborate Kabuki performance. An aging society has put their show — and their school — in jeopardy. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core machinery orders unexpectedly rose in February, suggesting business investment remained resilient even as companies braced for a major jolt to demand from the ... ( read original story ...)

Accordia Golf Trust: * UPDATES ON IMPACT OF STATE OF EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT IN JAPAN * JAPAN LOCAL GOVTS OF AFFECTED PREFECTURES ANNOUNCED TYPES OF BUSINESS T ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Shoko Research, which tracks Japanese bankruptcies, said there were 740 in March, up 11.8 % from a year earlier. Among them, 12 firms went bankrupt due to the coronavirus pandemic as declines in ... ( read original story ...)

Japan revised lower its latest greenhouse gas emissions figures, which it had already reported as the least since records began in 1990.Emissions fell 3.9% from a year earlier, data Tuesday from the ... ( read original story ...)

Business results at Japanese companies have gone into freefall as the novel coronavirus continues to spread, sending severe tremors across the country･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Just Energy Group Inc. (“Just Energy” or the “Company”) today announced that it has sold all of the shares of Just Energy Japan KK (“Just Energy Japan”) to Astmax Trading, Inc.  The purchase price was ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance FKMLI.UL plans to step up investments in risk assets such as stocks and foreign bonds, seeking portfolio diversification to secure a steady income to offset low ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday said South Korea's decision to cancel a deal to share military intelligence is damaging mutual trust, and he vowed to work closely with the U.S. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core inflation was unchanged in July ... The economy grew an annualized 1.8% in the second quarter thanks to robust household consumption and business investment. But despite ... ( read original story ...)