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The New Office: How Work Spaces Are Evolving
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO - “More people than ever are beginning to realize just how much we are affected by our work environment,” says Tokyo-based creative director Daniel Harris Rosen.
Yet, most companies—especially in Japan—are only beginning to take a hard look at their workplaces and how to chang...
TOKYO - “More people than ever are beginning to realize just how much we are affected by our work environment,” says Tokyo-based creative director Daniel Harris Rosen.
Yet, most companies—especially in Japan—are only beginning to take a hard look at their workplaces and how to chang...
- September 21, 2017
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Toshiba Aims to Finalize Deal with Bain at Sept. 20 meeting
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THE JAPAN NEWS
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Toshiba Corp. is aiming to finalize a deal to sell its memory chips business to a group led by Bain Capital at a Sept. 20 board meeting, despite opposition from partner Western Digital Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.
Toshiba’s effort faces...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Toshiba Corp. is aiming to finalize a deal to sell its memory chips business to a group led by Bain Capital at a Sept. 20 board meeting, despite opposition from partner Western Digital Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.
Toshiba’s effort faces...
- September 19, 2017
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Toshiba: Japan's Faded Titan Selling The Family Silver
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO - At a train station used by hundreds of workers at struggling Japanese electronics giant Toshiba, an advert is apparently trying to poach staff worried by their employer's precarious financial position.
"Do you work for 'that' electronics company? If so, come and work for us!...
TOKYO - At a train station used by hundreds of workers at struggling Japanese electronics giant Toshiba, an advert is apparently trying to poach staff worried by their employer's precarious financial position.
"Do you work for 'that' electronics company? If so, come and work for us!...
- September 18, 2017
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EU Parliament Opposes Bid to Reduce Testing of Fukushima Food Imports
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JAPAN TODAY
STRASBOURG, France - The European Parliament has warned against easing health controls imposed on food products imported from the Fukushima region in Japan in the wake of the nuclear disaster of 2011.
The checks were imposed on food from the area around the Fukushima nuclear plant i...
STRASBOURG, France - The European Parliament has warned against easing health controls imposed on food products imported from the Fukushima region in Japan in the wake of the nuclear disaster of 2011.
The checks were imposed on food from the area around the Fukushima nuclear plant i...
- September 16, 2017
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Court Orders Japan Post to Close Wage Gap for Contract Workers
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO - A Tokyo court ordered Japan Post Co on Thursday to compensate three contract workers who had sued the company for paying them less than full-time employees doing the same work.
The Tokyo District Court awarded the workers some 920,000 yen in total, a small fraction of the ro...
TOKYO - A Tokyo court ordered Japan Post Co on Thursday to compensate three contract workers who had sued the company for paying them less than full-time employees doing the same work.
The Tokyo District Court awarded the workers some 920,000 yen in total, a small fraction of the ro...
- September 15, 2017
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Japan Aims to Raise Y1.4 Tril in Japan Post Share Sale
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO - Japanese said Monday it would sell off another chunk of the country's massive postal service in a share sale that could raise up to 1.4 trillion yen.
Tokyo said it would sell up to 990 million shares in Japan Post, or about 22 percent of its outstanding shares, the finance m...
TOKYO - Japanese said Monday it would sell off another chunk of the country's massive postal service in a share sale that could raise up to 1.4 trillion yen.
Tokyo said it would sell up to 990 million shares in Japan Post, or about 22 percent of its outstanding shares, the finance m...
- September 13, 2017
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Japanese Businesses Strive For Toehold in Russia’s Far East
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THE JAPAN NEWS
KHABAROVSK, Russia — Japanese companies are striving to establish businesses in the Russian Far East (see below), a region where Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently focusing on development.
Russia is trying to lure foreign companies into the region with the aim of devel...
KHABAROVSK, Russia — Japanese companies are striving to establish businesses in the Russian Far East (see below), a region where Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently focusing on development.
Russia is trying to lure foreign companies into the region with the aim of devel...
- September 12, 2017
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Nagasaki Region Steps Up Efforts to Avert Potato Chip Crisis
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JAPAN TODAY
NAGASAKI - Potato growers in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan's second-largest spud-producing region, are pinning their hopes on a new disease-resistant variety to avoid another crop shortage of the kind that halted sales of chips and other snack products this year.
The prefecture plans t...
NAGASAKI - Potato growers in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan's second-largest spud-producing region, are pinning their hopes on a new disease-resistant variety to avoid another crop shortage of the kind that halted sales of chips and other snack products this year.
The prefecture plans t...
- September 11, 2017
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Japan Aims to More Than Quadruple Rice Exports in 2019
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO - Japan's agriculture ministry said Friday it is aiming to more than quadruple the country's annual rice and rice product exports to 100,000 tons in 2019, ministry officials said Friday.
On the back of falling domestic demand, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisherie...
TOKYO - Japan's agriculture ministry said Friday it is aiming to more than quadruple the country's annual rice and rice product exports to 100,000 tons in 2019, ministry officials said Friday.
On the back of falling domestic demand, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisherie...
- September 8, 2017
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McDonald’s Japan Picks Up Pace of Turnaround
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THE JAPAN NEWS
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — McDonald’s Japan is adding to its restaurant count in the second half of the year, underscoring a turnaround that has seen same-store sales climb for 21 straight months.
McDonald’s Holdings Co. Japan plans to open more restaurants than it will close in the sec...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — McDonald’s Japan is adding to its restaurant count in the second half of the year, underscoring a turnaround that has seen same-store sales climb for 21 straight months.
McDonald’s Holdings Co. Japan plans to open more restaurants than it will close in the sec...
- September 8, 2017
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