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Osaka Gas is actively pursuing investment opportunities consistent with its long-term "Field of Dreams 2020" business plan. As a part of the vision, Osaka Gas plans to deploy $4.4 billion by 2020 in energy assets internationally. ( read original story ...)

The futuristic bullet train can take you from Tokyo to Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and other major cities within a few hours. I ordered a week-long Japan Rail Pass so that I could hop on and off as much as I wanted. The pass turned out to be of fantastic value ... ( read original story ...

All passengers departing on Thai AirAsia X flights from Bangkok to Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul or Shanghai are entitled to one-month of unlimited access to iflix. New subscribers will additionally receive iflix’s standard one-month free trial of the service. ( read original story ...)

OSAKA -- Sharp will start producing parts for smartphone cameras ... in a push to reinforce its high-profitability electronic parts business. The Kameyama complex in Mie Prefecture is Sharp's principal manufacturing base for liquid crystal display panels. ( read original story ...)

Between the end of World War II and the end of the Cold War, Japan underwent what has been coined an 'economic miracle'. By the end of the 'golden 60s', Japan was the second-largest economy in the world. Writing for Forbes, Jean-Pierre Lehmann says "It is ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo’s Haneda airport saw a record 80.1 million passengers last year, aided by a rise in the number of foreign tourists and launches of new routes connecting Japan and U.S. cities, the airport operator said Friday. The number of passengers using the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO Chugoku Electric Power Co and JFE Steel may need to rethink ... coal-fired power plant, flagged a business risk and suggested the companies should consider all options including scrapping the plan. JFE Steel is a unit of JFE Holdings Inc. "It is ... ( read original story ...)

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If you’re visiting Japan on a business trip but fancy a spot of sightseeing around Tokyo, this is a good place to be based. The hotel has a long-running bakery which serves free breakfast including salads and other healthy options. They also offer free ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese businesses are less confident now than they were in the last quarter of 2016, a survey showed Large manufactures are much gloomier However, the Yen barely moved. Well, it is “payrolls Friday” The Japanese Yen was steady on Friday despite news ... ( read original story ...)

While the US mulls over limiting immigration, in Japan the federal government has just loosened the requirements for new, highly-skilled immigrants to become permanent residents. Under the new law, which will take effect in March, applicants with multiple ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo' stocks snapped a four-day losing streak Thursday as exporters got a lift from the cheaper yen, but Toshiba dived on news its troubled US nuclear unit could be headed for bankruptcy. Toyota, Panasonic and other firms doing business overseas benefited ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s economy grew faster than first thought in the final ... The Cabinet Office said that private business investment grew by 2% for the quarter, up from the initial estimate of 0.9%, contributing 0.3 percentage points to GDP. The quarterly increase ... ( read original story ...)

While many Chinese investors have looked to acquire Japanese office buildings and apartments as the yen has weakened, including conglomerate Anbang Insurance Group, which is in talks to buy 200 residential properties from Blackstone Group for US$2.3 ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Self-Defense Forces soldiers inject fuels into a unit of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo Thomson Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Rattled by North Korean military advances, influential Japanese lawmakers are ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Takaaki Nishii, CEO of Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (Ajinomoto)(TOKYO:2802) met with Prof. Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006 and a founder of Grameen Bank, and discussed about Ajinomoto’s nutrition improvement project in Ghana ... ( read original story ...)