Tag: business

A ranking of the best-selling everyday items in Japan in 2024 compared to the previous year reflects lifestyle changes brought on after consu ... ( read original story ...)

In the first half of this year, 182 companies went under in the country which faces a deficit of 3.4 million workers by decade’s end. ( read original story ...)

Over the last decade, Masato Shiota brought his papermaking business back from the brink, paying down debt and buying machinery to automate some production. But he struggles to find workers to keep ... ( read original story ...)

Amazon aims to differentiate its service from other sites by delivering gifts as quickly as one day after donations are made. ( read original story ...)

More than a decade after the first Time Out Market opened in Lisbon back in 2014, Asia is finally set to join the club with the opening of Time Out Market Osaka next year. Scheduled to start business ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's largest oil refiner Eneos Holdings is considering offering up to 70% of its metal unit JX Advanced Metals (JXAM) in an initial public offering which may raise up to 700 billion yen ($4.51 ... ( read original story ...)

Then put that idea in the company safe, mark it “emergency use” and keep the combination handy. The chances are rising that it will be needed before the end of 2025. Corporate Japan has been rumbled, ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Seven & i Holdings said on Wednesday it plans to open 500 new convenience stores in the United States and Canada through 2027. ( read original story ...)

Japan set a new annual record for visitor arrivals with one month to spare, official data showed on Wednesday, as the weak yen helped propel the nation's tourism boom. ( read original story ...)

Honda and Nissan are in talks to deepen ties, two people said on Wednesday, including a possible merger, the clearest sign yet of how Japan's once seemingly unbeatable auto industry is being reshaped ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese space startup said its second attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit had been aborted minutes after liftoff Wednesday, nine months after the company's first launch ... ( read original story ...)

The Commission General for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka and Legacoop - the National League of Cooperatives and Mutual Societies - have signed an agreement for the Italian cooperative movement's ... ( read original story ...)

Yoshinobu Tsutsui is set to be the first chairperson of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, from the financial industry. ( read original story ...)

The company plans to invest approximately ¥330 billion in the project, hoping to launch services in fiscal 2028. ( read original story ...)

Sentiment among large Japanese manufacturers improved slightly, adding more evidence of recovery just a week before a closely watched central bank meeting. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Stock Exchange is expected to delist 94 companies this year, the most since 2013, resulting in the first-ever decrease in the number of companies on the market. The exchange and ... ( read original story ...)