Tag: business

The Tokyo Game Show is one of the biggest consumer-oriented events for video games worldwide. It has also traditionally been a big place for business, and all the major Japanese game announcements. But over the years, the show has evolved from one of ... ( read original story ...)

the conglomerate's domestic nuclear business is also key to the decommissioning of the Fukushima plants damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. But the Tokyo stock exchange could come under further pressure to delist Toshiba if it is in negative net ... ( read original story ...)

Foreign languages were no barrier to Japanese customers at a cafe staffed by foreigners in Tokyo’s Roppongi district on Oct ... to communicate with them in their daily lives and in a business environment. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) - The Tokyo Stock Exchange said it removed ... accounting scandal in 2015 and the disclosure of multibillion-dollar losses in its nuclear business in December, the exchange said in a statement on Wednesday (Oct 11). The company still ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 63 ... Accumulated sales during that period are around 25 million yen. To support the business, Kamimura operates a web site in which he posts obscene images at no charge. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's main stock market index closed at its highest level in more than two decades on Wednesday as optimism spread across global markets. The Nikkei 225 added 0.3%, or 57.7 points, to end at 20,881.2. It was the best finish for the index since 1996 and ... ( read original story ...)

On Wednesday, the government said corporate machinery orders, a closely watched indicator of business spending, had risen for the second month in a row in August, gaining 3.4 percent. It will be some time before Japan can hope to set all-time records. ( read original story ...)

US Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class James Thierry TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the Ronald Reagan, is conducting drills with a Japanese warship in waters around Okinawa southwest of the Korean peninsula, Japan's military ... ( read original story ...)

Defensive stocks lead gains, turnover lacklustre. Kobe Steel plunges 20% to near 1-year low TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share index closed at its highest in 21 years on Wednesday, with gains mainly led by defensive shares, though exporters benefitted ... ( read original story ...)

Amazon Business is now available on Amazon Japan and Amazon India, meaning that it is now live in five countries including the United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Amazon Business helps business customers meet a wide range of procurement needs with ... ( read original story ...)

Boom! World stock markets have hit a new all time high. MSCI’s All-World stocks index, which tracks 2,400 companies around the globe, has inched up to 493.31 points this morning. Photograph: MSCI That’s partly due to the Nikkei’s surge to a two ... ( read original story ...)

Photograph: MSCI That’s partly due to the Nikkei’s surge to a two-decade closing high in Japan today. The rally in Spanish stocks and bonds this morning is also helping. David Meier, economist at Julius Baer, says the news that Catalonia plans to ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s core machinery orders rose for a second straight ... by 7.7 percent in the current fiscal year ending in March 2018, underscoring the view business expenditure is on a firm footing. A sustained recovery in business expenditure should support ... ( read original story ...)

The 2018 growth estimate for Japan was revised up 0.1 point to 0.7 percent ... citing supportive financial conditions and strong business and consumer confidence. But the forecast does not take into account a fiscal stimulus from planned tax cuts that ... ( read original story ...)

Banking group Nomura thinks the Japanese cities of Yokohama (pictured) and Osaka are “prime” targets for construction ... Bernstein and Co LLC said in an October 3 report on the Chinese cruise tourism business that there was much room for growth ... ( read original story ...)

AirAsia X is also exploring the business case for adding Airbus A321neos to serve routes ... adding that serving the U.S. from Japan could be a more interesting market, with an Osaka-Honolulu route doing “very well.” Fernandes said plans to sell ... ( read original story ...)