RELATED Korean man died uncompensated after serving in Japan’s wartime military On March 27, a car used to carry an Olympic torch crashed into another car, while backing out of a parking lot of a …
Why Japan can’t shake sexism
Gender equality keeps making headlines in Japan for all the wrong reasons. Why is that and what will it take for things to change? A day after former Tokyo Olympics boss Yoshiro Mori made global …
Japan’s Sumitomo to enter CO2 storage business with US partner
TOKYO — Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. will collaborate with U.S agricultural startup Indigo Ag in the greenhouse gas emissions allowance business utilizing agricultural land to store …
Japan’s March economy watcher sentiment rises as virus emergency ends
Business sentiment among workers with jobs sensitive to economic trends in Japan continued to rise in March, as the government ended a state of emergency for the Tokyo region and some other areas over …
Here’s a great opportunity for foreign investors to acquire Vietnamese consumer finance business
In early 2018, Shinhan Card acquired Prudential Vietnam for $150 million. The merged business started operating in May 2019. Japanese firms have also entered Vietnamese consumer lending market such as …
Japan’s Sumitomo to enter CO2 storage business with US partner
TOKYO — Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. will collaborate with U.S agricultural startup Indigo Ag in the greenhouse gas emissions allowance business utilizing agricultural land to store …
Japan’s March economy watcher sentiment rises as virus emergency ends
Business sentiment among workers with jobs sensitive to economic trends in Japan continued to rise in March, as the government ended a state of emergency for the Tokyo region and some other areas over …
Japan’s Nomura to investigate Archegos-related loss: sources
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nomura has set up an internal team to investigate a possible $2 billion loss relating to Archegos Capital Management, two people familiar with the matter said. Archegos, a …
Bond Rout Drove Japan Funds to Offload $5.8 Billion of U.S. Debt
Japanese investors turned sellers of U.S. sovereign debt to the tune of 618.7 billion yen ($5.6 billion) in February as the global bond rout forced them to cut losses.The net sales, the first since …
NTT Com’s Prototype Platform Securely Shares CO2 Emissions-related Data from Switzerland to Sites in Germany and Japan
which normally would not be available for sharing due to its high confidentiality even though partners engaged in actual business would need to perform CO2 emissions calculations, was transmitted …