Tag: business

Mariko Nagai walked outside Yoyogi National Stadium — the late-architect Kenzo Tange's masterpiece from Tokyo's 1964 Olympics — and pictured the city in that era. She was a university student from nor... ( read original story ...)

Prairie farmers received good news Friday as Japan, this country’s second-largest buyer of wheat, announced it would resume commercial wheat shipments from Canada one month after the discovery of a ha... ( read original story ...)

In 1964, the Olympics in Tokyo were held in October, mostly to avoid the scorching heat. But that was before the Olympics became big business and TV contracts determined schedules. Organizers are doin... ( read original story ...)

While many may associate the talisman with Chinese business establishments, their origins actually reside in Japan. There's some debate as to which city holds the claim, but the most enduring legend i... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan downgraded its assessment of business sentiment and warned that global trade tensions could cloud the economy’s recovery prospects, a sign that policymakers are increasingly wo... ( read original story ...)

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 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” 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 ...)

... 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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)