JAPAN TODAY
 
Toyota Motor Corp's labor union said Wednesday it has demanded the same level of wage hike as last year's -- the highest increase in over two decades -- as Japan's annual wage negotiations entered full swing in the face of rising living costs.
Toyota's wage request has long served a...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. officially decided Thursday to withdraw from their merger talks.
The two companies made the decision at their respective board meetings to withdraw from the basic agreement they signed in December on starting talks for integrating their businesses...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan posted a current account surplus of 29.26 trillion yen in 2024, a record high, driven by its highest-ever returns on foreign investments amid a weak yen and a decline in the trade deficit, government data showed Monday.
The surplus in the current account balance, one of the wi...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The nervousness that pervaded Japanese markets on Friday turned briefly to relief after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, then back to uncertainty on Monday after the U.S. president flagged tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.
Trump’s tal...

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TRAVEL AND TOUR WORLD
 
Japan‘s Hotel Okura and Indonesia‘s Plataran join forces to blend heritage and luxury, redefining global travel with cultural exchange and unmatched hospitality.
In a groundbreaking move, Japanese hotel operator Hotel Okura Co. and Indonesian hospitality firm Plataran Indo...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japanese trading house Itochu Corp said Thursday it is considering joining other companies in a management buyout of Seven & i Holdings Co proposed by its founding family to fend off a takeover bid by Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.
While no decisions have yet been made, Itoc...

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NIPPON
 
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba held a meeting with visiting Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on Thursday, welcoming the signing of an investment agreement between the two countries earlier in the day.
The accord invites more Japanese companies to invest in the South African n...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Nissan shares plunged on Wednesday after Japan's Nikkei business daily said the carmaker had decided to withdraw from merger talks with rival Honda.
The newspaper and other Japanese media had earlier reported that Honda had proposed making Nissan a subsidiary, instead of the previou...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
The government will ease regulations on online-only shareholder meetings, it has been learned.
Such shareholder meetings were first allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the circumstances, and the government will now revise the Companies Law to encourage the holding of online-o...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Honda Motor Co and Nissan Motor Co say they will unveil the details of their merger plan in mid-February, having originally announced they would do so by the end of January.
Honda and Nissan, Japan's second- and third-largest carmakers by volume, said they are still discussing the f...

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