Tag: business

White & Case now has ten partners in Tokyo after the firm lost real estate partners Mizuho Yamada and Ayako Kawano to Greenberg Traurig earlier this year. More recently, the firm’s Singapore office ... ( read original story ...)

LG Energy announced that it forming a sales team in Japan to expand its business with automakers in the country as they shift to EVs. ( read original story ...)

This strategic move not only solidifies OpenAI’s commitment to its global outreach but also introduces plans to develop a GPT-4 model specifically optimized for the Japanese language. The decision ... ( read original story ...)

"The couple rapidly expanded their business, but it costs tens of millions of yen (about $130,000 or more) in initial investments alone to open a shop. I wonder how they managed to raise the funds." ... ( read original story ...)

He quickly adopted a Japanese name, spent the equivalent of about $650,000 on a luxury waterfront condo and, in March, brought his family to join him.The 45-year-old, whose two boys just started in a ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks opened lower Thursday after US shares dropped, with a jump in the yen sparking speculation that the Japanese government had intervened in the market for the second time this week. ( read original story ...)

Japan Tobacco’s chief executive has said the company will keep its lucrative Russian business to satisfy investors after reshaping its supply chains to comply with sanctions. ( read original story ...)

Recent years have seen continued evictions, closures and relocations among businesses that were once staples of the Little Tokyo community. ( read original story ...)

Kansai International Airport opened in 1994 and says it's never lost a bag. It cited "daily efforts and careful work" for its success. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks ended slightly lower Wednesday as investors cautiously awaited the outcome of the U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy m ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Tobacco’s chief executive, Masamichi Terabatake, has announced that the company will continue its operations in Russia to appease investors, despite the challenges posed by sanctions. The tobacco giant has reorganized its supply chains and business strategies to comply with international sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ( read original story ...)

Hollys, the coffee business unit of South Korea's KG Group, said Wednesday it has opened its first overseas outlet in Japan as it seeks to expand in global markets in the long term. Hollys has ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Mitsui expects net profit to fall 15.4 per cent to 900 billion yen ($5.70 billion) for the fiscal year ending in March, hit by weaker performance of its energy business, the trading house said ... ( read original story ...)

The manufacturing sector in Japan continued to contract in April, albeit at a slower pace, the latest survey from Jibun Bank revealed ... ( read original story ...)

Twenty/Twenty Therapeutics LLC — a joint venture between Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Verily Life Sciences unit and Santen Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. of Osaka — will be shuttered, the company said in a ... ( read original story ...)

NEW YORK >>The yen stumbled against the dollar today, relinquishing some of its sharp gains in the prior session sparked by suspected intervention by Japanese authorities, while a flurry of U.S. ( read original story ...)