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Google To Buy Japan Payments Firm Pring
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REUTERS
Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) has agreed to buy payments business Pring from backers including fintech firm Metaps Inc (6172.T) as the U.S. tech giant pushes into Japan's rapidly growing market for cashless services.
The startup's three top shareholders - Metaps, software company Miroku J...
Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) has agreed to buy payments business Pring from backers including fintech firm Metaps Inc (6172.T) as the U.S. tech giant pushes into Japan's rapidly growing market for cashless services.
The startup's three top shareholders - Metaps, software company Miroku J...
- July 14, 2021
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Japan's May Machinery Orders Rise 7.8%, Up For Third Month In A Row
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JAPAN TIMES
Japan’s core machinery orders rose for the third straight month in May, a welcome sign for an economy struggling to overcome the hit from the coronavirus pandemic.
The government imposed a new state of emergency in Tokyo that will run through to Aug. 22 in an attempt to control the ...
Japan’s core machinery orders rose for the third straight month in May, a welcome sign for an economy struggling to overcome the hit from the coronavirus pandemic.
The government imposed a new state of emergency in Tokyo that will run through to Aug. 22 in an attempt to control the ...
- July 12, 2021
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Japan And China’s Shenzhen Stocks Jump More Than 2% As Asia-Pacific Markets Rise
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CNBC
China’s central bank announced Friday a 50 basis points cut in its reserve requirement ratio for all banks, effective from July.Japan’s government put Tokyo under a new Covid state of emergency on Monday while stricter social distancing restrictions kicked in for the greater Seoul area in ...
China’s central bank announced Friday a 50 basis points cut in its reserve requirement ratio for all banks, effective from July.Japan’s government put Tokyo under a new Covid state of emergency on Monday while stricter social distancing restrictions kicked in for the greater Seoul area in ...
- July 12, 2021
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G-20 Finance Ministers Back Plan To Stop Use Of Tax Havens
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THE JAPAN NEWS
Top finance officials representing most of the world’s economy have backed a sweeping revision of international taxation that includes a 15% global minimum corporate levy to deter big companies from resorting to low-rate tax havens.
Finance ministers from the Group of 20 countrie...
Top finance officials representing most of the world’s economy have backed a sweeping revision of international taxation that includes a 15% global minimum corporate levy to deter big companies from resorting to low-rate tax havens.
Finance ministers from the Group of 20 countrie...
- July 11, 2021
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Japan’s SMFG Nears $2 Billion Deal for Fullerton India
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BLOOMBERG
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. will buy a 74.9% stake in Fullerton India Credit Co. for about $2 billion, marking the first entry into the South Asian country’s retail financial business by a Japanese bank.
Japan’s second-largest lender will eventually acquire the rest of the In...
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. will buy a 74.9% stake in Fullerton India Credit Co. for about $2 billion, marking the first entry into the South Asian country’s retail financial business by a Japanese bank.
Japan’s second-largest lender will eventually acquire the rest of the In...
- July 6, 2021
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CEO Who Failed In Silicon Valley Spurs 4,500% Stock Gain At Home In Japan
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JAPAN TIMES
Takanori Nakamura pulled out of Silicon Valley in 2015 after his mobile marketing software flopped and decided to focus everything on his home country, Japan.
Now those efforts are paying off. His company, Rakus Co., has surged more than 4,500% since going public in Tokyo that yea...
Takanori Nakamura pulled out of Silicon Valley in 2015 after his mobile marketing software flopped and decided to focus everything on his home country, Japan.
Now those efforts are paying off. His company, Rakus Co., has surged more than 4,500% since going public in Tokyo that yea...
- July 6, 2021
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Suga Adviser Calls For 3% Hike In Japan's Minimum Wages
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JAPAN TIMES
Japan’s minimum wages must be raised by at least 3% in fiscal 2021, which started in April, said David Atkinson, a member of the government’s growth strategy panel.
In a recent interview, the 56-year-old Atkinson, who is known to be a key adviser to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, st...
Japan’s minimum wages must be raised by at least 3% in fiscal 2021, which started in April, said David Atkinson, a member of the government’s growth strategy panel.
In a recent interview, the 56-year-old Atkinson, who is known to be a key adviser to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, st...
- July 5, 2021
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Japan’s Green Push Opens Path To Talent Outside Old Men’s Club
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JAPAN TIMES
The growing importance of sustainable investment could help diversify the old men’s club mentality of Japan Inc. boardrooms, as companies look to draw from a nontraditional talent pool for senior positions.
From Recruit Holdings Co. to Sumitomo Life Insurance Co., Japanese firms are...
The growing importance of sustainable investment could help diversify the old men’s club mentality of Japan Inc. boardrooms, as companies look to draw from a nontraditional talent pool for senior positions.
From Recruit Holdings Co. to Sumitomo Life Insurance Co., Japanese firms are...
- July 4, 2021
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Japanese Government Suggests Companies Offer Four-Day Work Week
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THE GREAT COURSE DAILY
Japan has proposed that businesses let employees opt for a four-day work week. Exhaustion, illness, and even suicide plague the country’s overworked working class. The solution may also fix Japan’s declining birth rate.
Japanese family life has changed greatly in structu...
Japan has proposed that businesses let employees opt for a four-day work week. Exhaustion, illness, and even suicide plague the country’s overworked working class. The solution may also fix Japan’s declining birth rate.
Japanese family life has changed greatly in structu...
- July 3, 2021
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Hiroaki Nakanishi, Ex-Keidanren Chairman, Dies At 75
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THE JAPAN NEWS
Hiroaki Nakanishi, former chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, died at the age of 75 on Sunday, it was learned Thursday.
Nakanishi resigned as head of the largest Japanese business group on June 1 to concentrate on treatment for his illness after a possible re...
Hiroaki Nakanishi, former chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, died at the age of 75 on Sunday, it was learned Thursday.
Nakanishi resigned as head of the largest Japanese business group on June 1 to concentrate on treatment for his illness after a possible re...
- July 3, 2021
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