Tag: business

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Post Insurance Co said the firm is more cautious on risk-taking in the financial year through March 2020 due to broad uncertainties ahead as well as its view that the current ... ( read original story ...)

BERLIN (Reuters) - Japan’s Softbank Group Corp will buy a 5.6 percent stake in German payments company Wirecard by acquiring convertible bonds worth around 900 million euros ($1.01 billion ... ( read original story ...)

A Tokyo-based developer of a laundry-folding robot filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday due to financial difficulties. Seven Dreamers Laboratories Inc. released a statement saying that it had insufficient ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is one of the world’s most visited countries, whether for leisure or business. When one thinks about Japan, Osaka will most of the time, if not always, pop into people’s thoughts. Osaka is one ... ( read original story ...)

Other countries in the region, including China itself, have moved on and adopted the Gregorian calendar for official business. Japan hasn’t had to face a calendar change for a generation — and that ... ( read original story ...)

But companies are often able to ignore minority investors given the longstanding practice of cross-shareholding, where firms hold stakes in each other to cement business ties. "If the governance of ... ( read original story ...)

The company expects the Wizcorp business to achieve margins at similar levels to Keywords’ existing Engineering Service line when it is integrated with the company’s existing operations. keywords ... ( read original story ...)

"I want to be an assemblyman who can connect everyone regardless of nationality, age, or even disabilities, through my 20 years of living in Japan," Yogi said. (This story has not been edited by ... ( read original story ...)

Speaking at a working luncheon hosted in his honour by Chairman Japan-Pakistan Business Cooperation Committee Teruo Asada, Qureshi said he has invited Japanese companies to invest in the information ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japanese prosecutors on Monday formally charged Carlos Ghosn ... but an internal investigation by Nissan found that Mr. Ghosn had authorized over $30 million in payments to a business partner ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Century Corp. will buy a fifth of Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd.’s vehicle leasing business in a bid to expand in Myanmar and explore further collaboration with the Southeast Asian conglomerate. ... ( read original story ...)

From 15p €0.18 $0.18 USD 0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras. Occupying the top floors of a skyscraper in the Otemachi business district – not far from Tokyo Station – the Aman Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics will run from July 24 to August 9. Tickets for the Paralympics will become available this summer. (This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's powerful Keidanren business lobby has agreed with universities to expand year-round hiring of new graduates, moving away from the spring recruitment that has been a fixture of the ... ( read original story ...)

The economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.9 percent in the fourth quarter driven by business and consumer spending. Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda last week stuck to his optimism that ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (center) and Chen Siqing (third from right), chairman of the Bank of China, attend the opening ceremony of the renminbi clearing business of the bank's Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)