“Wherever you go in Japan, they’re playing jazz — in restaurants and cafés ... “Stanley was certainly a great mentor for me to have at that early age.” Like the Palo Alto Daily News Facebook page for neighborhood news and conversation from ... ( read original story ...)
On the Road: Hog turns Japanese
Instead of following American trends of long and skinny custom Harley-Davidsons in the ‘West Coast-style’, Hatton says, he turned instead to Japanese influences. “In Japan, they tend to go for a big and chunky look, and it’s much more muscular ... ( read original story ...)
Hawaiian Airlines, Japan Airlines agree to new partnership
Hawaiian Airlines (Nasdaq: HA) was the busiest airline serving the Islands last year, while Japan Airlines was busiest international airline serving the state, according to Pacific Business News research. More than 1.8 million passengers flew to Hawaii ... ( read original story ...)
Maehara, Ozawa rebuke Abe’s explanation for holding election
Abe said at a news conference Sept. 25 that he would dissolve the Lower ... A 24-year-old graduate student in Sapporo said he was twice awakened by the J-Alert nationwide warning system when North Korea fired a ballistic missile over the southern part ... ( read original story ...)
Subaru teases VIZIV Performance Concept ahead of 2017 Tokyo Motor Show
FOLLOW DAILY NEWS AUTOS ON FACEBOOK. 'LIKE' US HERE. For now, what we do know is that the VIZIV Performance concept to be debuted in Tokyo continues along the thematic lines of previous concepts in terms of a “vision for innovation,” an idea that folds ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan policymakers point to reasons for optimism on spurring inflation, minutes show
Bank of Japan policymakers said they should stick with their current policy framework and had reason to be optimistic about consumer prices because measures of inflation expectations have stopped falling, minutes of the central bank's July 19-20 meeting ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s big banks plan digital currency launch
A consortium of banks, led by Mizuho Financial Group and Japan Post Bank, has won support from the country’s central bank and financial regulator to launch the J Coin, an electronic currency to pay for goods and transfer money using smartphones. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Global Financial Center Under the Spotlight Again
Japan has long endeavored to develop its capital, Tokyo, as one of the top global financial — given the status of the Japanese yen as the third international currency after the U.S. dollar and the euro; and large financial markets with abundant capital. ( read original story ...)
Japanese doctor named Việt Nam’s honourary consul in Nagoya
TOKYO — Japanese doctor Nagato Natsume has been appointed as Honourary Consul of Việt Nam in Nagoya city of Aichi prefecture. Dr Natsume, director of the Japanese Cleft Palate Foundation, will hold the position for the 2017-20 term. Over the past 25 ... ( read original story ...)
Disney tests new store design as shoppers go online
The stores and website have been designed to highlight Disney's four major franchises. The idea is being tested at the two California stores as well as in Nagoya, Japan, and Shanghai. Locations in Munich and Miami will be redesigned later this year. ( read original story ...)
Report of Foreign Issuer (6-k)
Method of the Business Integration We are planning to implement the Business Integration through a holding company structure whereby Minato, Kansai Urban and Kinki Osaka will become wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Holding Company through the following ... ( read original story ...)
Japan wants to launch a new digital currency: J-Coin
Mizuho Bank is leading the consortium that wants to launch J-Coin. REUTERS/Shohei Miyano LONDON — A consortium of Japanese banks are set to launch a new national digital currency in a bid to wean citizens off cash, the Financial Times reports. ( read original story ...)
Alps Electric to Exhibit at CEATEC JAPAN 2017
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alps Electric Co., Ltd. (TOKYO: 6770)(President: Toshihiro Kuriyama; Head Office: Tokyo) will exhibit at CEATEC JAPAN 2017, to be held at Makuhari Messe, Chiba Prefecture, from Tuesday, October 3. The company will introduce its ... ( read original story ...)
S. Korea, Japan discuss ways to boost business ties
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Yonhap) -- Business leaders of South Korea and Japan gathered in Seoul on Tuesday to discuss ways to step up collaboration in the technology and energy sectors, as well as in facilitating multilateral free trade with other Asian nations. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo plans another Japan Post share sale to raise up to ¥1.3 trillion
The purchase marked Japan Post’s first overseas expansion and came ahead of the 2015 IPO, but a fall in commodity prices and a slowdown in Toll’s domestic and Chinese business took a bite out of its bottom line. ( read original story ...)
Thailand courts Japanese businesses with grand tour of key industrial zone
This approach by Thailand has been welcomed by Japan, whose presence in the ASEAN hub has been overshadowed by the emergence of other investors such as China. In a gathering of the largest-ever business delegation invited to Government House in Bangkok ... ( read original story ...)