According to Nikkei Asia, Japan has some big plans in store with regards to eco-friendliness and sustainability. The island nation is aiming to make all new car sales eco-friendly by the mid-2030s as it joins a growing community of nations determined to slow down the world’s ever-growing carbon emissions.
The...
Financial services company Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings and private market exchange ADDX have announced a new partnership to offer fractional private market investment products to investors in Japan, after Tokai Tokyo secured a security tokens license from the Japanese regulator.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed Tokai Tokyo is the holding company...
Japan plans to boost its tumbling birth rate by funding artificial intelligence matchmaking schemes to help residents find love. From next year it will subsidise local governments already running or starting projects that use AI to pair people up. Last year the number of babies born in Japan fell...
As global supply disruptions and fresh Covid-19 cases hit businesses and consumer spending, Japan's economy contracted much faster than expected in the third quarter, raising challenges for the new government's growth plans.
While many analysts expect the world's third largest economy to rebound in the current quarter, worsening global production...
Two of Japan’s largest regional banks have set their sights on the Southeast Asia region as a location for new offices to support client companies’ expansion into the region. The move will shift resources away from its existing network in London and Hong Kong.
Gunma Bank, headquartered Northwest of Tokyo,...
In a world where the average lifespan of a company is less than 20 years, there is a country that defies the statistics.
Japan is home to most of the old companies in the world. The Shinise, as these ancient businesses are known, are considered national treasures and some of...
Bank of Japan Governer, Haruhiko Kuroda said he saw no need to change the central bank's 2% inflation target, which has helped keep currency moves stable in the medium to long-term.
The 2% inflation target will take some time, but it's possible to achieve with powerful monetary easing.
Consumer price growth...
Giftee Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Japan-based giftee, Inc., has entered a partnership with Häagen-Dazs that enables all customers to both purchases and redeem Häagen-Dazs eGifts at all outlets nationwide.
With this collaboration, Häagen-Dazs is now integrated with Giftee Malaysia's eGift system. The ice cream brand will no longer...
Japanese Economy Minister Yasuhisa Nishimura crossed wires, via Kyodo News, while boosting chatters over the return of the coronavirus-led emergency in the Asian major economy.
''The Japanese government plans to put Tokyo and three western prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo under a state of emergency from Saturday to May...
Commercial transaction volumes from Asia-Pacific (APAC) to North America rose over 400% year-on-year to US$13.9 billion in the first quarter of 2023, according to an analysis by Knight Frank’s Asia-Pacific research team. Outbound investments from APAC into North America made up 85% of the total investment volumes outside of...
Even though the Tokyo Olympics are set to start in two months, calls for them to be cancelled have been growing louder in Japan as skepticism mounts over the organizers' ability to hold the multinational sporting event at a time when the country is struggling to contain the spread...
By Sayuri Shirai and Pawel Kowalewski
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has been practicing unconventional monetary easing for more than two decades. Under Haruhiko Kuroda’s 10-year governorship from March 2013 to April 2023, the BOJ became known as a bold practitioner of monetary easing (New York Times 2023), introducing quantitative...
