Articles in Japan business
Ken (pronounced like the boy’s name) is Japanese for prefecture which is roughly equivalant to the US word for state. When I lived in Japan, I lived in Niigata-ken, or Niigata Prefecture.
Japanese like to travel …
Japan’s economy grew for the fifth straight quarter – at an annual rate of 1.9%.
Continued consumer spending + solid company investment + booming exports = Solid and balanced growth.
Last year the economy grew 3% – …
Honda Motors has decided to build a new factory in the heartland of the US.
There is already one such factory right up the street from where I grew up, Cincinnati, OH.
They plan to produce a small …
Google has found a new way to do business in Japan.
Google will team up with Japan’s International Telephone Co. KDDI to offer Internet search services in Japan via mobile phone starting in about two …
Toyota is not the only Japanese company that can build factories in North America.
Honda plans to open up a new plant in North America by 2009.
Sales are up for Honda but supply lags and the North …
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone saw profits drop in Japan last year. They didn’t quite break 500 billon yen = $4.5 billion. Poor babies…
The problem appears to be the fixed line service sector of their business. …
China exports more to Japan than anywhere else in the world. And China is Japan’s third largest market.
Japan’s trade with China grew for the seventh straight year - nearly 13% last year.
But…..they don’t like each other.Still they …
I read this morning the Japanese are eating Chinese forests.
Each year the Japanese use about 25 billion sets of wooden chopsticks – called waribashi (pronounced wah lee bah shee). That’s 200 pairs per person in …
Tim Stay wrote about Japan’s Rising Sun on April 13th at Business News.
It is true that Japan seems to have FINALLY started spending again. And now that they have, watch out! Because the Japanese have money …
I saw a cartoon today –
A man and a woman were walking out of a mall.
The man was carrying four boxes – a plasma TV marked "Made in Taiwan….a DVD player marked "Made in …
