The Japanese Government and Tokyo Metropolitan Government are banking on these investments ... Property investors and entrepreneurs will find it easier than ever to do business in a city currently ranked third in the world by the Global Power City Index ... ( read original story ...)
Tips accepted in Tokyo? – Tokyo Forum
It's bad practice when they state the prices on internet to appease potential clients then demand more on the spot- such practice is alien to Japanese standard business conducts. Don't pay tips in such cases. I lived for a while in a country where a client ... ( read original story ...)
This Week(End): Tokyo Area Events For June 2-3
Either way, it will be a great start of the month! Enjoy! Join FEW, Tokyo's leading international female business and social networking organization, for its biannual career strategy event, a day-long event full of seminars, workshops and networking ... ( read original story ...)
Toshiba Memory sale another sign of a Japan past its prime
But many of the engineers interviewed by Nikkei complained that Japanese executives do not understand what the semiconductor business is all about. These engineers think this lack of aptitude led to poor and slow decision-making when it came to research ... ( read original story ...)
Book sale planned for Nikkei Centre in Burnaby
Nikkei Centre has a truckload of books for you. The centre is hosting a book sale on June 8 to 9. Don’t miss this chance to buy hard-to-find Japanese-language books in Vancouver. The centre has over 40,000 used Japanese novels, manga, and children’s ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka, Danang emerge as popular destinations for S. Korean tourists: ticket seller
SEOUL, June 3 (Yonhap) -- The Japanese city of Osaka and the Vietnamese central coastal city of Danang have became two of the most popular tourist destinations for South Koreans this year, an online ticket seller said Sunday. Osaka topped the list of the ... ( read original story ...)
In Japan, Government Film Program ANEW Never Finds Its Footing
In 2015, All Nippon Entertainment Works, a company that connects Japanese intellectual property owners to Hollywood producers, announced the production of a live-action adaptation of the anime series “Tiger & Bunny.” That film was never made although ... ( read original story ...)
Madison Keys beats Osaka, now ready for trip into unknown
The 13th-seeded American matched her best run in Paris with a 6-1 7-6(7) win over Japan's Naomi Osaka on Friday and probably expected to be facing fourth seed Elina Svitolina next. Instead, she is up against 31st seed Buzarnescu with a first Roland Garros ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Aso ‘Feels Sorry’ for Mnuchin Amid Outrage Over Tariffs
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin faced so much criticism from his Group of Seven counterparts this week over new trade levies that Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said he almost ‘felt sorry’ for the U.S. finance chief. “He’s not directly ... ( read original story ...)
Market forces in Japan failing to tackle growing plastics problem
Last month, news outlets all over the world reported on the discovery of a plastic shopping bag at the bottom of the Mariana Trench near the Philippines, the deepest point in the Earth’s oceans. The discovery was made by a group of Japanese researchers ... ( read original story ...)
Brian Minter: Japanese beetle invasion a serious threat to Vancouver
The Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) has been detected in Vancouver, causing a great deal of concern in the local food, ornamental plant and turf industries. This beetle has been established in the eastern U.S. and Canada for some time, but in those ... ( read original story ...)
Japan whale hunt killed 122 pregnant minkes
Tokyo (AFP) – Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific research but conservationists call “gruesome and unnecessary”. The four-month expedition in the Antarctic ... ( read original story ...)
WASHINGTON | The Latest: Japan’s defense chief urges caution over NKorea
Japan’s defense minister has urged the international community ... Pompeo spoke to reporters at a news conference in New York after meeting Thursday with former North Korean military intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol. He would not say that the summit ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 marathon and race walking courses announced
IAAF Newsletter 2018 IAAF News 191 - March 2018 PDF En IAAF Newsletter 2018 IAAF ... IAAF Newsletter For the record Member federation elections - News 151 PDF En The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games --Tokyo 2020-- announced ... ( read original story ...)
Japan joins U.S. allies in attacking Trump’s tariff decision
Aso said while Japan was undecided on whether to file a challenge to the ... growth through free and fair trade,” Aso said on Friday after attending the G7 finance leaders’ gathering. Fears of a global trade war have overshadowed the G7 talks in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan official warns that North Korea has discussed ending nuclear program before, to no avail
Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said on Saturday it was important not to reward North Korea for only agreeing to dialogue and it must take concrete action to dismantle all of its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. ( read original story ...)