TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese business sentiment slipped in July, a Reuters poll found, reflecting companies’ fear of fallout from an intensifying trade dispute between the United States and China, even ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Is Opening Its Skies And Business Jet Travel Is Taking Off
Japan is only a few hours’ flight from China, one of the world’s biggest markets, and countless businesspeople shuttle between the two countries. Not all parts of the mainland, however, have easy conn... ( read original story ...)
‘Made in China 2025’ More Business Than Threat for Japan
“Made in China 2025” is perceived in the U.S. to be a strategic threat to its economy, but for Japan, it’s a business opportunity, according to Bloomberg Economics. The industrial overhaul China envis... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Wants People to Go to Work Earlier to Ease Train Crush
... Biz" campaign to combat overcrowding on trains in the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. As part of the initiative, which translates as "time-lag business," the roughly 740 partici... ( read original story ...)
Japan, EU to sign trade deal eliminating nearly all tariffs
TOKYO (AP) — The European Union and Japan are signing a widespread trade deal Tuesday that will eliminate nearly all tariffs, seemingly defying the worries about trade tensions set off by President Do... ( read original story ...)
EU-Japan biggest ever trade deal covers a third of world GDP
TOKYO: The European Union’s top officials arrive in Japan Tuesday to sign the single market’s biggest trade deal ever and present a united front as Washington upends the international trade order. EU ... ( read original story ...)
Assemblyman’s son accused of assaulting sex business employee
TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police last week arrested the 24-year-old son of a member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly over the alleged assault of an employee of a sex business at a love hotel in ... ( read original story ...)
Who is in Asia with Emanuel? Campaign donors, lobbyists, developers, business heavyweights
However, Emanuel also did plenty of business behind the scenes in corporate boardrooms and at formal dinners, holding talks with executives of several Chinese and Japanese companies and top government ... ( read original story ...)
Subway operator Tokyo Metro teaches tricks of the trade in Asia
The Japanese subway operator will also propose that its counterpart in Ho Chi Minh City diversify its business to increase revenue. The local company could run stores in stations and spaces under elev... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo art space battles against the current
When he was quizzed as to whether he’d ever sold anything “because that’s the business,” however ... and a month later Osaka was invited to work at the gallery in Tokyo. The regular income of working ... ( read original story ...)
An empty wooden ship washed up in Japan — and it looks like another mysterious North Korean ‘ghost ship’
North Korea's fishing season typically runs from October to February, he previously told Business Insider, so seeing a vessel in Japanese waters in the summer appears to be an anomaly. The last report ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese firms more confident
Japanese companies remain confident in Thailand's business climate, buoyed by the country's growing economic prospects, according to the latest survey by the Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro). ... ( read original story ...)
Netflix downgraded by UBS, Walmart to sell supermarket business in Japan, AT&T invests in augmented reality
Here’s a look at some of the companies the Yahoo Finance team will be watching for you today. UBS just downgraded the Netflix (NFLX) to Neutral. Analyst Eric Sheridan says any future growth at the com... ( read original story ...)
Japan is reversing a dangerous demographic time bomb — but now the US is in the danger zone
The US fertility rate has been higher than Japan's for more than three decades. But since the economic recession, the US birth rate has been steadily falling. Meanwhile, Japan's dangerously low birth ... ( read original story ...)
Trade Presents an Oppportunity For Japanese Business
Ed Rogers, CEO/Chief Investment Officer, Rogers Investment Advisors, discusses the latest economic data from Japan, seeing it as very robust. He goes on to the opportunities he sees trade tensions pre... ( read original story ...)
Canopy to acquire Tokyo Smoke parent company in $250 million retail play
Canopy Growth Corp. is acquiring Hiku Brands Ltd. for around $250 million in an all-stock deal that expands the cannabis grower’s retail footprint and gives it marijuana lifestyle brand Tokyo Smoke. S... ( read original story ...)