Gertner’s most active involvement with the cannabis business today is Tokyo Smoke a retail operation and brand which he started with son Alan, a former Google employee, in 2015. The company has a downtown Toronto coffee shop and store, where it sells pot ... ( read original story ...)
Grand twin tower complex in Osaka marks completion
... mark the completion of a new town complex comprised of two 200-meter buildings that have dramatically reshaped Osaka's central business district's skyline was held in the city’s Kita Ward on April 17. Executives of the construction company, tenants ... ( read original story ...)
Toshiba’s sale of memory-chip business hits snag as Western Digital objects
Toshiba Corp.’s plans to sell its memory-chip business to raise much-needed cash hit a snag as ... Toshiba shares fell as much as 3.1 per cent in Tokyo trading. They have dropped 22 per cent this year before today. The U.S. company, one of the largest ... ( read original story ...)
In Japan talks, Pence to seek market access, investment
Pence developed ties with Japanese business and political leaders as governor of Indiana, a state that is home to Subaru , Honda and Toyota plants, and about 260 Japanese companies in total employing about 60,000 residents. ( read original story ...)
Japan reaches out
With ample liquidity supplied by its central bank and facing an anaemic economy back home, many Japanese companies do not have to look any farther west than Southeast Asia to ply their trade and expand their business empires. As most Asean economies remain ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo futures inch lower on stronger yen
TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Benchmark TOCOM rubber futures inched lower on Monday as the Japanese yen advanced to five-month highs against the dollar amid rising geopolitical tensions over North Korea. FUNDAMENTALS * The Tokyo Commodity Exchange rubber ... ( read original story ...)
Toshiba Earns Largest Share in Chinese A3 MFP Market for 17th Consecutive Year
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Tec Corporation (TOKYO:6588) today announced that it is the 2016 A3 multi-functional peripheral (MFP) market leader in China with a 16.4 percent share. This marks the 17th consecutive year Toshiba has held the top position ... ( read original story ...)
Apple considers bidding for big stake in Toshiba chip business: report
Apple Inc. is considering teaming up with its supplier Foxconn to bid for Toshiba Corp.'s semiconductor business, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday - the latest twist in the sale of the world's second-biggest flash memory chipmaker. ( read original story ...)
ASEAN and Japan aim to foster startups in Southeast Asia
Its goal was to promote collaboration between ASEAN startups and Japanese companies. To that end, at the beginning of the meeting, the ASEAN Business Club, a group of leading companies in Southeast Asia, signed a memorandum of cooperation with nine ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's frugal households offer no respite for BOJ, retailers
Japan's economy has sustained a modest recovery cycle that ... A recent rebound in overseas demand has helped boost exports and output, pushing up business confidence to its highest in a year and a half, with companies upbeat on their spending plans. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Shares Open Lower After US Strike on Afghanistan
Metrotvnews.com, Tokyo: Tokyo shares opened lower Friday on rising geopolitical fears after the US military dropped a massive bomb in Afghanistan, adding to global tensions over the Middle East and the Korean peninsula. The weak start followed overnight ... ( read original story ...)
Japan scrambles jet fighters in record numbers as Chinese military activity rises
US Air Force TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's air force scrambled fighter jets to chase away foreign aircraft at record pace in the year to March 31, government figures showed on Thursday, as Chinese military activity in and around the East China Sea escalated. ( read original story ...)
Japan Wants to Encourage Business Aviation
Japan has set ambitious targets to double foreign visitors to 40 million a year by the 2020 Olympics, and business aviation will play a role. The goal behind the increased tourism target is to generate $8 billion in spending by overseas visitors to Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Vietnam values contributions of Japanese investors
Chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) in Japan on April 12. Keidanren, the biggest business organisation in Japan, consists of more than 1,000 enterprises and 100 associations. At the meeting, Minister Dung said his ongoing visit to Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Japan should use U.S. economic talks to boost investment – govt adviser
TOKYO, April 13 (Reuters) - Japanese companies should use the U.S.-apan economic dialogue as an opportunity to boost investment in factories in the United States and protect market share, a Japanese government adviser said on Thursday. Japan should also ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese PM: North Korea may be capable of missiles loaded with sarin nerve gas
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the upper house parliamentary session, in Tokyo, Japan, March 6, 2017. Thomson Reuters TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Thursday that North Korea may be capable of firing a missile loaded with sarin ... ( read original story ...)