Tag: business

Japan will end a ban on British beef and lamb that has been in place since the mad cow disease epidemic. The move comes ahead of a meeting between Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Theresa May. Th... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The appeal by the lawyers of Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's former chairman, against his prolonged detention since his arrest Nov. 19 was rejected Wednesday by the Tokyo District Court. Ghosn's lawye... ( read original story ...)

Boone County officials expect Japanese companies, six of which have chosen to locate in the county, will play an even larger role in the community's economic life in 2019. Boone County Economic Develo... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — For years, Japan's retail currency investor were known as "Mrs Watanabes", a reference to the metaphorical housewife who invests family savings mostly in foreign exchange. Now, a younger gener... ( read original story ...)

For example, Western business schools teach students to explore, to challenge, to do more and to expand business. Japanese, on the other hand, define success more in terms of collective survival. Soci... ( read original story ...)

Pakistan Japan Business Forum (PJBF) took a business delegation comprising several business groups and Small Media Enterprises (SME)’s to the 8th Joint Business Dialogue in Tokyo, followed by ... ( read original story ...)

Nissan Motor Co.’s Saudi Arabian business partner said his company helped the automaker resolve a dealership dispute and pave the way for a joint venture in justifying $14.7 million in payments now un... ( read original story ...)

“Not many Japanese companies are very willing to distribute cash to shareholders as dividends. They see these fund as resources to expand business overseas.” Companies sitting on excess cash are now m... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's seafood processors are beginning to shift their business focus from catching fish from the sea to inland fish farming as new technologies and legal revisions make this kind of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, (Reuters) - Growth in Japan's services sector slipped in December to the slowest in three months on some reduction of momentum in generating new business at the end of the year, a private showe... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record $3.1 million for a giant tuna Saturday as Tokyo's new fish market, which replaced the world-famous Tsukiji late last year, held its first pre-dawn New Year' ... ( read original story ...)

"Relations between Japan and South Korea are in a severe state," Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference on Monday in Tokyo, calling recent moves by Seoul "regre... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — A 612-pound (278-kilogram) bluefin tuna sold for a record 333.6 million yen ($3 million) in the first auction of 2019, after Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji market was moved to a new site on the city’s ... ( read original story ...)

Kiyomura Corp. owner Kiyoshi Kimura, left, stands near the bluefin tuna which he made a wining bid at the annual New Year auction, in Tokyo Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. The 612-pound (278-kilogram) bluefin ... ( read original story ...)

Indian aspirants will have to be duly reoriented emotionally and professionally. In a welcome juxtaposition of circumstances, the time is propitious for Japan and India to script a new chapter amidst ... ( read original story ...)

As Japan’s biggest business lobby, Keidanren represents the interests of more than 1,300 member companies and its executives include some of the nation’s top business leaders. But at the same time, th... ( read original story ...)