Tag: business

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s government is considering a slight downgrade to its assessment of the economy in its monthly report for March as exports and factory output fell due to slowing demand from Ch... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA/TOKYO: Osaka, long Japan's "second city," is winning the race against Tokyo to draw foreign tourists, but after a boom, its retailers and property developers are adapting to shifting tourism spe... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka reacts after winning the 2019 Australian Open. (Photo by Fred Lee/Getty Images)Getty Images Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka are the reigning champions at back-to-back Grand Slam events afte... ( read original story ...)

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently surveyed 1,500 business travellers around the globe to uncover the best ‘bleisure’ destinations in Asia Pacific (APAC), and Tokyo emerged as the top choi... ( read original story ...)

DFW International Airport has been setting passenger records and American Airlines will soon add another 100 flights a day. So what’s the big deal about adding a new route into Tokyo’s Haneda Airport? ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s biggest manufacturers say current business conditions are at the worst in nearly three years, the latest indication the nation’s export-dependent economy is taking a battering in the current q... ( read original story ...)

Japan Inc. is pushing back after years of pressure to give ... are expected to show even smaller gains after the chief of Keidanren, the nation’s largest business lobby, suggested the government mind ... ( read original story ...)

There is a local saying in Kansai: the ideal life is to “study in Kyoto, work in Osaka, and live in Kobe.” Although this phrase may not have a long history, the business aspects of Osaka do. Going as ... ( read original story ...)

These include world number one tennis player Naomi Osaka, American actress Yara Shahidi, and the first ever Maori Barbie, modelled after New Zealand sports journalist Melodie Robinson. "Barbie has com... ( read original story ...)

Osaka will get a chance to avenge that defeat when she faces ... (This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) ( read original story ...)

H.B. Fuller Japan G.K. to be led by Zhiwei Cai, Sr. Vice President, H.B. Fuller Company ST. PAUL, Minnesota, March 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- H.B. Fuller Company (FUL) (CEO: Jim Owens) today ... ( read original story ...)

With their sights set on new opportunities to sell products and services into Japan’s rapidly expanding eldercare sector, Canada’s first-ever women-only business mission to Asia will also ... ( read original story ...)

Seafood exporters are pinning their hopes on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics driving up consumption in the Japanese market. Japan is one of the world’s top seafood markets and the third largest seafood import... ( read original story ...)

Japan's relatively low crime rate means high ... Nissan never suffered the investment losses and the payments were legitimate business expenses. A French lawyer for Ghosn, Jean-Yves Le Borgne ... ( read original story ...)

Surrounded by security guards and dressed in a workman’s uniform and glasses, Ghosn was virtually unrecognizable from his usual suited self as he left Tokyo Detention House, where he was confined to a ... ( read original story ...)

Due to be completed in 2023, Tokyo’s Toranomon Hills Station Tower will be one of the world’s largest urban hubs for transportation, hospitality, business, and retail. Architect Shohei ... ( read original story ...)