Tag: business

PALO ALTO, U.S. -- eBay announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy the Japan business of Singapore-based online shopping site operator Giosis for a reported $700 million. The U.S. e-commerce company will purchase the assets of Qoo10's online shopping ... ( read original story ...)

It's also faster to get to Tokyo Station from Shinjuku if you're taking Shinkansen ... Tall buildings are in West Shinjuku which is a business district. Even in West Shinjuku near the Station, where Keio is located, there are tons of restaurants, bars ... ( read original story ...)

Little Tokyo Cosmetics is located in the Little Tokyo area of the Regional Connector at the entrance to the historic Japanese Village Plaza on 2nd Street. It was established in 1991 by Shinataro Shiono, who owns and operates the business along with his ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo (AFP) - Tokyo Wednesday unveiled its long-awaited mascot ... raked in $8.8 million last year for local businesses selling branded products. - Big business - Twelve-year-old Miyu Kawa from the school where the winner was unveiled on Wednesday ... ( read original story ...)

KOBE – A second arrest warrant was served Wednesday for an American man already in custody in connection with a human head and other body parts discovered in Osaka and Kyoto prefectures, police said. The American man, Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, was ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japanese women who say “Me too” do so at their own risk. Online comments accused Rika Shiiki of lying and being a publicity hound when she tweeted that she lost business contracts after refusing to have sex with clients. Some said that by ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japanese women who say “Me too” do so at their own risk. Online comments accused Rika Shiiki of lying and being a publicity hound when she tweeted that she lost business contracts after refusing to have sex with clients. Some said that by ... ( read original story ...)

TSI Holdings Co. Ltd. has joined forces with mobile commerce firm PredictSpring to create a mini-mall mobile app for Tokyo Style. According to TSI, the app was localized for the Japanese market. It allows consumers to shop from six different women’s wear ... ( read original story ...)

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- eBay Inc. (EBAY), a global commerce leader, will expand its presence in Japan with the acquisition of Giosis' Japan business, including the Qoo10.jp platform. eBay currently is an investor in Giosis Pte. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Amazon Japan is asking many suppliers for "cooperation payments" in an apparent bid to shift some of the burden of rising shipping and other costs to business partners. The Japanese arm of Amazon.com is seeking payments equivalent to a given ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks opened higher on Monday ... Sharp climbed 3.06 percent to 3,695 yen after a weekend report by the Nikkei business daily that it would set up a joint venture with its parent group Taiwan’s Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn, to produce cameras ... ( read original story ...)

SAGA – The country’s first office building fully powered by off-the-grid solar energy opened Monday in the city of Saga. Daiwa House Industry Co. is promoting the two-story, 2,400-square-meter facility as a “net-zero energy building” that offsets ... ( read original story ...)

Major Japanese insurance group Sompo Holdings Inc. plans to bolster its nursing care business in response to the rapid aging of the country’s population, sources with knowledge of the matter have said. The firm will analyze big data related to elderly ... ( read original story ...)

“Clearly we need a different way of doing business in Japan,” Khosrowshahi said at an event in Tokyo covered by local media. “We need to come in with partnership in mind, and in particular a partnership with the taxi industry here, which actually has ... ( read original story ...)

"When I was a child, I thought I'd never go into business," Sawada said. Sawada graduated high school in 1969, a tumultuous time in Japan when student protests were rocking the country to its core. He knew he didn't want to take over the family business or ... ( read original story ...)

The third district would be made up of the central Osaka business and entertainment districts as well as the southern port area. And the final district would be the area that includes the more working-class districts and middle-class suburbs of the city ... ( read original story ...)