Tag: business

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 ...)

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 ...)

entitled “Philippine Seminar on Business Opportunities on Agriculture and Logistics”, organized by the Osaka Port Promotion Association at their conference hall on October 11. ( read original story ...)

The NPA conducted the on-site inspections under the adult entertainment business regulation law ... information regarding actual situation of the JK industry. Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture were home to 106 JK shops as of the end of June. ( read original story ...)

I don’t go on any jungle safaris; I stay along the highway in a business hotel with a conference room and ... In Tokyo, we mostly skipped breakfast and went for brunch; in Osaka, I attempted to eat supermarket sushi for breakfast but ended up cooking ... ( read original story ...)

Let the business talk and show them that you are listening by capturing ... If you were to visit a particular restaurant in Portland, Oregon, you would get a similar experience in Osaka, Japan. In a world that is always changing people need certain levels ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA -- Hon Hai Precision Industry unit Sharp plans to invest ... network as a channel for selling products related to the internet of things, as well as business-to-business offerings. Sharp has been actively acquiring vendors, with an eye toward ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — For decades, Japanese manufacturers of cars, aircraft and bullet trains have relied on Kobe Steel to provide raw materials for their products, making the steel maker a crucial, if largely invisible, pillar of the economy. Now, Kobe Steel has ... ( read original story ...)