TOKYO -- Honda Motor tops the list of 20 Japanese companies with the largest planned increase ... The survey also rated expectations of which new technologies would create business opportunities. AI ranked highest at an average of 4.5 out of 5, followed ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s sixth annual Yokohama Triennale art festival opens this week
Project Taklaman, 2016 by Zhao ZHAO See why Lonely Planet voted Yokohama one of its favourite destinations in Asia here. Stay up to date with the top travel news stories by signing up to our newsletter or following us on Facebook. ( read original story ...)
Japanese, South Koreans and Chinese mostly resigned over North Korean missile threat
Honestly, I don’t think there is any way to prepare for it,” Akira Fukatsu, a 65-year-old retiree, said as he sat drinking a beer on a bench in a park overlooking a U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, south of Yokohama. “We’re simply unlucky if one strikes ... ( read original story ...)
New Nissan LEAF with e-Pedal is around the corner
YOKOHAMA: Nissan is set to unveil its new-generation LEAF early in September, a few days before its public debut at the Sept 16-24 Frankfurt Motor Show. Undisguised photos of the new LEAF, with a design echoing the Pulsar, are starting to leak out into the ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo firefighters battle blaze at world’s biggest fish market
TOKYO (Reuters) - Dozens of Tokyo firefighters were battling a blaze on Thursday at the world's largest fish market and one of the capital's most popular tourist sites, as grey smoke billowed over the city. There were no immediate reports of injuries or ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM names safe hands in cabinet reshuffle but makes maverick top diplomat
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ... "The economy remains our top priority," Abe told a news conference after the reshuffle, apologizing for the scandals he described as having harmed public trust in his policy handling. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Banks Tap a Gold Mine
Japan's banks are in a difficult place. While the rest of the G-10 countries are moving toward higher borrowing costs, the Bank of Japan is spinning its wheels, with little sign of improved lending rates. A happy unintended consequence of that stasis ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Inc. Might Have to Pay Up
In its most recent minutes, the Bank of Japan used an Orwellian phrase to describe the trend: "securing the labor force." The unemployment rate is 2.8 percent and declining steadily as Japan goes through something of a growth streak. At the same time ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama and KaBOOM! to Build New Playground in West Point, MS
Yokohama Tire Corporation, in partnership with KaBOOM!, will build a brand-new, eco-friendly playground for the citizens of West Point, Mississippi, which is the home of Yokohama Tire’s new one-million-square-foot plant that opened in October of 2015 ... ( read original story ...)
There are precious few neighborhoods in New York City where renters can afford a two-bedroom apartment
New York was rated No. 9 after Singapore (No. 1), Hong Kong, Zurich, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Geneva and Paris ... according to a separate ranking from personal-finance website GoBankingRates.com. San Jose followed at $87,153 per year, with New York close ... ( read original story ...)
BidaskClub upgraded Cohu, Inc. (NASDAQ:COHU) to Hold in a report released today.
Its manufacturing operations are located in Malacca, Malaysia (handlers); Poway, California (thermal subsystems); Laguna, the Philippines (kits and contactors); Kolbermoor, Germany (handlers), and Osaka, Japan (contactors). Receive News & Ratings Via Email ... ( read original story ...)
Several Akhilesh projects under Yogi scanner
When Yadav was the chief minister, the then state irrigation and public works department minister, Shivpal Singh Yadav, and irrigation department principal secretary, Deepak Singhal, visited Japan to study riverfront developments in Tokyo and Osaka. ( read original story ...)
Kagoike arrest isn’t end of story
The special investigation squad of the Osaka District Public Prosecutor’s Office, which interrogated and arrested the Kagoikes, has received a criminal complaint filed by a group of some 240 lawyers and researchers against officials of the Finance ... ( read original story ...)
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCMP) Files An 8-K Results of Operations and Financial Condition
Results of Operations and Financial Condition. On August 2 ... Sucampo Pharma, LLC, based in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan and R-Tech Ueno, Ltd., based in Kobe, Japan, through which the Company conducts its Asian operations; Sucampo Pharma Americas LLC, based ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 open mascot design competition to public
Tokyo 2020 had revealed in March that the names will come from creative professionals, rather than from the general public. Mascots are a popular element of modern Japanese culture, usually created to promote a particular region, event or business. ( read original story ...)
Asia shares fall as Apple’s glossy earnings effect fades
TOKYO (AP) — Asian markets mostly fell Thursday as the rally from news of Apple's strong earnings that spurred record highs for the Dow Jones industrial average faded. Myriad worries over China's rising debt, weaker commodity prices and possible rising ... ( read original story ...)