Four-day working week fever hits Panasonic

Employees of the Osaka-based electronics conglomerate can take up side jobs and spend time on local volunteer work on their extra days off, CEO Yuki Kusumi said in an investor briefing last week. ( read original story ...)

Japan Stocks end softer in choppy trade

Adding to market woes, community transmission of the highly contagious Omicron variant of the virus has been confirmed in some of Japans major metropolises including Tokyo and Osaka. Japanese ... ( read original story ...)