Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said the countries ... He also took the opportunity to raise long-standing concerns about China’s record on intellectual property rights and “proposed that we should enable fair and free technology transfers ... ( read original story ...)
Trump and Japanese prime minister give thumbs-ups after golfing
report Senators push HHS to negotiate lower prices on opioid overdose reversal drug MORE and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gave a thumbs-up to cameras after playing golf at a Trump property on Wednesday. "Prime Minister @AbeShinzo of Japan and ... ( read original story ...)
In Japan, new rules may leave home-sharing industry out in the cold
Japan aims to host 40 million foreign tourists a year by 2020 ... out of a converted traditional wooden "machiya" house in Kyoto. He still advertises on his property in Kyoto on Airbnb and the hotel license frees him from the 180-day limit. ( read original story ...)
Japan insurer Aioi Nissay eyes alternative assets, foreign equities
Aioi Nissay Dowa is the non-life insurance arm of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc, Japan’s biggest property and casualty insurance group. ( read original story ...)
Par-tee time! Trump FIST BUMPS Abe as the president drives the Japanese prime minister between shots during 18-hole round on his own golf course
President Trump treated the Japanese prime minister to a round of golf Wednesday morning at his luxurious West Palm Beach, Florida, property and even played driver, shuttling Shinzo Abe around between holes. A photo released by Japan's foreign ministry of ... ( read original story ...)
Economic ties with China still thorny / Intellectual property, steel remain problematic
citing the infringement of intellectual property rights. Facing trade friction with the United States, China apparently aimed to use the latest economic dialogue to present a united front with Japan and thereby send a warning to Washington. ‘One Belt ... ( read original story ...)
Abe got his golf game after all! Trump whisks the Japanese prime minister over to his West Palm Beach club for a morning round of golf ahead of tough talks on trade and North Korea
President Trump treated the Japanese prime minister to a round of golf Wednesday morning at his luxurious West Palm Beach, Florida property. The leaders were not expected to hit the links but fit a round in anyway. They departed Mar-a-Lago for Trump ... ( read original story ...)
How The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Serves Up Authentic Hospitality: A Brand Evolution, Property by Property
All of that history and heritage now inform a simple furnishings detail that for us localizes our Kyoto property." Back in Tokyo, you can see this localization at play within Ritz-Carlton's towering luxury property in the heart of midtown. The hotel ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo: Woman dies in fall into hole while burying cat corpse
The corpse of a woman was found along with a garden shovel on her property in Adachi Ward TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police suspect that a woman died in an accident while burying a corpse of a cat on her property in Adachi Ward, reports the Sankei ... ( read original story ...)
Compensation Clinic: Hyatt Regency Osaka, Management & Room Maintenance Problems
Our Compensation Clinic this week makes a stop at the Hyatt Regency Osaka, Japan where I attempted to stay for two nights earlier this months but ended up walking away to a different property. I stayed at the Hyatt Regency Osaka before exactly a year ago ... ( read original story ...)
Japan calls for ’emergency measure’ blocking access to websites that pirate manga and anime
The Cabinet Office’s Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters plans to encourage ... The site had over 174 million visitors in March, making it the 25th busiest website in Japan, according to the analysis tool SimilarWeb. Piracy websites have ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Tech Evolution Ushering in Shared Logistics
... Estate Investment Spikes 23 Percent in 2017 Outbound Japanese real estate investment rises 23% year-over-year to $1.3 billion, development investment activity was also brisk, and indirect property investment via funds is set to increase in the coming year. ( read original story ...)
Internet piracy taking major bite out of Japan’s famed manga culture
But cracking down isn’t so easy, says Orie Kishimoto, counselor for the Cabinet Office’s Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters. Japan’s most notorious piracy website takes the form of a “leech site,” which aggregates links to manga ... ( read original story ...)
Japan, China to hold high-level economic talks on April 16: Asahi
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso ... amid the U.S. government’s growing frustration with China’s policies on trade and intellectual property. Financial markets have been roiled in the past week on fears a full-blown U.S-China trade war could shatter ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s first Ace Hotel to open next year in historic Kyoto
the Ace Hotel Group will fulfill a ‘long-standing dream’ next year with the opening of its first property in Japan. Ace Hotel Kyoto will be ‘a space that honors the beauty and history’ of the former imperial capital, which is famed for its ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Feb machinery orders beat expectations, wholesale prices slow
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s core machinery orders rose unexpectedly in February ... disapproval of China’s trade practices and its treatment of foreign intellectual property. Japanese exporters would be unlikely to increase investment if China and ... ( read original story ...)