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LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Feb 6, 2020

Direct flights aim to increase convenience

In late January, Turkish Airlines held a seminar in Osaka introducing various perks of direct flights between Osaka and Istanbul; the flights will resume in April for the first time since 2017.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 5, 2020

Aeon Financial Service to enter life insurance market

Aeon Financial Service Co. has announced a plan to enter the life insurance business by acquiring a Japanese unit of German insurer Allianz SE.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 5, 2020

Nihon Kotsu and DeNA to integrate taxi-hailing services

Major taxi operator Nihon Kotsu Co. and information technology firm DeNA Co. will integrate their taxi-hailing app businesses April 1.
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Mexico report 2020
Feb 5, 2020

Mayekawa de Mexico upholds tradition to establish better connections

With a strong vision to provide world-class products and to give its customers the best service possible, Japanese company Mayekawa Corp. was able to make a name for itself all over the world.
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Norway report 2020
Jan 31, 2020

UECC leads the European “Ro-Ro” shipping industry

Operating within Europe and with a fleet of 17 pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs), UECC, or United European Car Carriers, is a company that has created a good reputation in the “Ro-Ro” roll-on roll-off shipping industry since it was established in 1990.
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Norway report 2020
Jan 31, 2020

Large enough to handle, small enough to care

A dynamic company needs driven leadership. This year sees Peak Group AS celebrate 15 years of operations and Jan-Petter Slethaug, the firm’s managing director, is continuing to steer the company in the right direction.
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Norway report 2020
Jan 31, 2020

OSM – it’s all about people

OSM Norway has seen great success in the country ever since it was established in 1989.
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EDITORIALS
Jan 30, 2020

Japan should feel the temperature at Davos

The sense of urgency to create a more sustainable human existence must be shared across the world, including Japan, which failed to send any policymakers to Davos this year.
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BUSINESS
Jan 28, 2020

Crowded Lagos to ban commercial motorbikes from most of Nigerian metropolis

Nigeria's business capital of Lagos will ban commercial motorcycles from operating in large parts of the city, the state government announced on Monday, a move that could change the commute for thousands and threaten ride-hailing startups.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 27, 2020

Closing Japan's gender gap: The role of women in media

Women in media are discriminated against first by being women, and then in the way they work once they have children.
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Special Supplements / Career Development 2020
Jan 26, 2020

Taking the next step mid-career

Every businessperson keen on climbing the corporate ladder or switching to a higher-paying job wants to brush up their business skills — and returning to school may help one acquire those specific skills.
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JAPAN
Jan 25, 2020

Japan braces for Chinese New Year tourist influx as concerns over coronavirus grow

Authorities bolster health screenings at airports and urge companies to clamp down on business travel as throngs of Chinese tourists land in Japan wearing masks.
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Brazil report 2020
Jan 21, 2020

Transforming Canon do Brasil through growth and reform

Admired and respected around the world, Canon is reputable for the development of document and image management technologies, as well as producing a variety of innovative products ranging from cameras, copiers and printers, to optical equipment and professional broadcasting lenses.
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BUSINESS / Davos Special 2020
Jan 20, 2020

WEF gathering in Davos strives for solutions amid global instability

In 1971, the inaugural European Management Symposium was held in Davos, a ski resort in the Swiss Alps, the event a precursor to what would later become the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 18, 2020

Japan activist investor Yoshiaki Murakami makes surprise bid to disrupt Toshiba deal

Japan's best-known activist investor announces a tender offer for Toshiba Machine Co., which is embroiled in a controversial takeover battle for NuFlare Technology Inc.
Jan 17, 2020

SUNTORY GROUP PLEDGES $500,000 TO SUPPORT BUSHFIRE RELIEF AND RECOVERY IN AUSTRALIA

Suntory Holdings Joined by Operating Units Beam Suntory, Frucor Suntory and Suntory Coffee to Give Back to Communities Impacted by Tragic Fires
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 15, 2020

In search of level playing fields

Far from countries outside the EU undercutting EU standards by divergence it may be that it is the central EU authorities who are now the drag on progress and competition.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 15, 2020

Fujifilm vies with buyout firms in $3 billion Curium sale

Fujifilm Holdings Corp. is entering the race for Curium Pharma, challenging buyout firms bidding for the French maker of medical imaging supplies in a deal that could fetch at least $3 billion (¥329.8 billion), people familiar with the matter said.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 9, 2020

10 surprises for Japan in 2020

Japan's prospects for the new year appear stellar.
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BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2020

Japan-run language school that saw stock surge 1,093% last year eyes expansion

A Japan-run language school that saw its stock soar almost 12-fold last year is planning to expand into new business areas as its chief executive officer tries to keep the rally alive.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 8, 2020

The Great Escape: How Carlos Ghosn became the world's most famous fugitive

On Christmas Eve, Carlos Ghosn walked into his lawyers' modest office in central Tokyo to speak to his wife, Carole, for only the second time since April. During his long odyssey through the Japanese legal system — several arrests, more than 100 days in solitary confinement, seemingly endless interrogations,...
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 7, 2020

Increase in environmentally friendly debt may limit slowdown of corporate bond sales in Japan

Japan's record corporate bond issuance will likely slow down, but a boom in environmentally friendly debt could limit the downside.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 6, 2020

China's new liaison officer in Hong Kong 'confident' city will stabilize

China's new top official in Hong Kong said he is certain the city will stabilize following months of political unrest, backing leader Carrie Lam and her administration in his first public comments since being appointed.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2020

Does inattention explain today's low inflation?

In the 1980s and 1990s, people were acutely aware of inflationary risks, whereas economic actors today may be setting their expectations based on a different set of considerations.
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JAPAN
Dec 30, 2019

Floodwaters recede but damage lingers: One Japan couple's harrowing autumn

David Bowen and his wife, Yoko, thought the worst that 2019 had to offer must have passed after Typhoon Faxai blew away part of the roof of their house in September.
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BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2019

China prodding state firms to invest and take more control in Hong Kong

China has called on its biggest state firms to take a more active role in Hong Kong, including stepping up investment and asserting more control over companies in the financial hub, executives familiar with the matter said as Beijing attempts to calm months of unrest in the city.

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