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BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2018

Heard on the grapevine: How the Pacific trade pact primes New Zealand wine for Japanese market

From sleepy New Zealand hillsides to sleek Tokyo dining scenes, a bottle of Hawke's Bay wine shipped to Japan traces an arc that exporters like Nigel Avery see as an avenue for multimillion dollar growth built on a free trade pact.
Dec 19, 2018

ORIX CarShare to be Expanded Nationwide in FY2020.3

TOKYO, Japan – December 11, 2018 – ORIX Auto Corporation (“ORIX Auto”) announced today that it will roll its car sharing business out into three new regions—Hokkaido, Chugoku, and Kyushu—by spring 2019, and that it will expand its service stations nationwide in the fiscal year ending March...
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 18, 2018

Democrats jockeying over coming probes into Trump's finances, Russia ties

With less than three weeks to go before they take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats are jockeying to lead overlapping investigations into President Donald Trump in a scramble that could cause headaches for Nancy Pelosi, who is expected to be House speaker.
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Qatar report 2018
Dec 18, 2018

International expansion: a cornerstone of QNB Group’s 2020 strategy

Abdulla Mubarak Al Khalifa, acting chief executive officer of Qatar National Bank (QNB) Group shares insights and strategies with Synergy Media Specialists.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 17, 2018

Taisho said to near $1.6 billion deal for Bristol-Myers unit

Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings Co. is nearing a deal to buy Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s French over-the-counter unit, people familiar with the matter said, as the Japanese drugmaker seeks to boost its overseas presence.
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WORLD
Dec 17, 2018

Uber welcomes while unions criticize U.K. plan to maintain flexible gig economy

Uber Technologies Inc. welcomed on Monday the British government's response to a review into workplace rights, which looks set to preserve the business models of gig economy companies, but unions criticized the business ministry's plans.
Japan Times
UAE report 2018
Dec 14, 2018

Twenty years of success in the UAE and the Middle East

Cooling solutions are a necessity in the United Arab Emirates, where average maximum temperatures can reach above 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in July and August. 
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MORE SPORTS
Dec 12, 2018

Media-savvy One Championship attracting fighters

Martial arts promotion One Championship is perhaps one of the most rapidly-growing sports properties in the world and hopes one day to become the biggest sports property on the planet past the NFL.
WORLD
Dec 4, 2018

Fearful of bias, Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool

Alphabet Inc.'s Google in May introduced a slick feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type. Tap out "I love" and Gmail might propose "you" or "it."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Dec 2, 2018

The greater the cooperation, 'the more trust we can build'

There's an episode from Mikhail Galuzin's childhood that he believes likely influenced his chosen career path.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 30, 2018

Ghosn a symptom of broken global capitalism

There hasn't been a more exciting time to be a critic of the 'greed is good' philosophy of the corporate sector led by self-centric rock-star CEOs.
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2018

Inbound investment to Japan continues on upward trend driven by Asian neighbors

The total value of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Japan increased to ¥28.6 trillion in 2017, bringing the country a step closer to meeting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of doubling such investment to ¥35 trillion by 2020, according to the Japan External Trade Organization.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 26, 2018

Renault-Nissan's Mexican standoff

The danger of all-out war has receded, but the guns are still loaded and pointed in this fractured French-Japanese alliance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INSIDER REPORT
Nov 26, 2018

How the lifelines of the economy feed and fuel Japan

Given Japan's low food self-sufficiency ratio and dearth of energy resources, the sōgō shōsha have acted as a lifeline to Japan's economy through the import of foodstuffs and energy resources.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 21, 2018

Democrats demand probe of Ivanka Trump's private email use for government work

Democrats called on Tuesday for an investigation into U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter and top White House adviser Ivanka Trump following reports that she repeatedly used a personal email account last year for government business.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2018

Japan startup's superflies may hold key to food self-sufficiency — even in space

Houseflies, the Soviet space program and manned missions to Mars — these aren't plot devices for a Cold War space thriller, but key terms to understand the history behind Fukuoka-based startup Musca Inc.'s project to provide a solution to some of the world's most pressing agricultural problems: food...
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BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Nov 20, 2018

Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance seen surviving the arrest of Carlos Ghosn

The arrest Monday of Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who is widely credited with turning around the struggling Yokohama-based automaker and forming one of the world's most powerful auto groups, has sent shock waves through the industry and left observers wondering what will become of the firm's cross-border...
EDITORIALS
Nov 20, 2018

Nissan must rebuild its governance

The Ghosn scandal highlights Nissan's flawed governance.
Japan Times
ESG CONSORTIUM
Nov 18, 2018

Green, social efforts span work, play, unity

Environmental and social factors in particular are what leading food tray container manufacturer FP Corp. (FPCO) incorporates into its core business and daily operation among the much-talked-about ESG (environmental, social and governance) efforts.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 18, 2018

Brexit is killing the great British curry house

Syed Joynu was in for a rude shock on a September morning when he walked into Indos — the curry house he owns just outside London. It was already 10:30 a.m. and not a single employee had turned up.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 18, 2018

Computers may reshape jobs, but they won't eliminate them

Take predictions that artificial intelligence and robots will cause massive unemployment in the future with a grain of salt.
Japan Times
Nov 16, 2018

Pensees Inc. has become a Golden Partner with HubSpot Inc.

From organizing News2u group’s net PR and strategy planning for web Pensees Inc. has become a Golden Partner with HubSpot Inc. to thinking of the design, its built and analyzation of UI · UX, Pensees Inc.(Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Akira Masuda) has become a certified...
EDITORIALS
Nov 15, 2018

Set adequate regulations for IT platform giants

Steps need to be taken to ensure that the operations of Internet giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are fair and equitable for all participants in the markets.
Japan Times
Singapore report 2018
Nov 15, 2018

Enhancing ASEAN Integration through resilience and innovation

As Chair of this year’s 33rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, Singapore is forging partnerships and creating a resilient and innovation-driven economic region. 
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Singapore report 2018
Nov 15, 2018

Delivering quality products and innovative design to Asia

The YKK Group manufactured its first fastening product over 80 years ago. The company has since grown to become the world’s largest manufacturer of zippers and fastening products with 111 affiliated companies across 73 countries and regions.
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Singapore report 2018
Nov 15, 2018

50 years of contribution, commitment and growth in Singapore

This year marks the golden jubilee anniversary of Daikin Airconditioning Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Daikin Singapore). Through the slogan, “Together, we are 1,” the company remains as committed to Singapore today as it has been for the last five decades.
EDITORIALS
Nov 14, 2018

Which China will prevail?

Whether China embraces economic globalism or self-reliance is a matter of grave consequence for the world.
Japan Times
Spain report 2018
Nov 12, 2018

HiKOKI: A brand-new name for Hitachi Power Tools

As a global leader in the professional power tool industry, HiKOKI Power Tools, headquartered in Japan (formerly Hitachi Koki), has been at the forefront of product innovation and design since 1948. 2018 marks the company’s 70th anniversary.

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