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Giappone
Japanese workers distrust their employers, survey shows
Lifetime employment sounds like a great thing, but not if you hate where you work. That seems to be the plight of Japanese “salarymen” and “office ladies.” Only 22 percent of Japanese workers have “a great deal of trust” in their employers, which is way below the average of eight ...
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Giappone
Arora’s SoftBank walkout returns focus to succession woes at Japanese firms
The surprise departure of Nikesh Arora, heir apparent at SoftBank Group Corp., highlights a problem many Japanese companies face: passing the reins to a successor. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, 58, said Tuesday he wants to remain at the helm of the company he built from a computer software distributor into ...
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Giappone
Mitsubishi Motors may resume minicar production in July to ease pressure on suppliers
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is preparing to resume minivehicle production, possibly on July 4, company sources said Thursday. It suspended assembly of the vehicles at its Mizushima plant in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, amid a scandal over falsified mileage figures in April. Of Mitsubishi’s three assembly plants in Japan, only Mizushima produces ...
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Giappone
Nikkei gains 172 points, but investors cautious ahead of U.K. vote
Tokyo stocks rebounded Thursday as speculation grew that Britain will remain in the European Union. The Nikkei gained 172.63 points, or 1.07 percent, to finish at 16,238.35. On Wednesday, it lost 103.39 points. The Topix index closed up 14.10 points, or 1.10 percent, at 1,298.71, after falling 9.29 points the ...
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Giappone
Pay for Hitachi’s Americas boss outshines that of other executives
Jack Domme, Hitachi Ltd. chief executive for the Americas, received ¥900 million in pay for fiscal 2015, far exceeding the remuneration of the firm’s other leaders, officials said Wednesday. Domme is the highest-paid Hitachi official on record, the company’s data show. In the same year, Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi received ¥161 ...
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Giappone
Sharp shareholders approve Hon Hai takeover
The approval marks the first major Japanese electronics manufacturer to come under foreign ownership. The post Sharp shareholders approve Hon Hai takeover appeared first on The Japan Times.
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Cina Giappone
Itochu, CITIC to cooperate in oil, gas development
Trading house Itochu Corp. and China’s CITIC Resources Holdings Ltd. are to kick off joint projects in oil and gas production. An agreement calls on Itochu and the unit of CITIC Ltd., a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, to pursue joint acquisitions of oil and gas exploration and production assets, Itochu said ...
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Giappone
Tokyo professor’s medicine-making molecules bring new tool to pharma
When he realized he was not going to make it as a guitarist, Hiroaki Suga set out to find the origin of life, and ended up creating a new way to develop medicines. Many years spent fiddling with the building blocks of the universe — combining molecules to form compounds ...
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Regno Unito
Poland worried at potential Brexit
Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Development Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has warned that a vote by Britons to leave the EU on Thursday could hit both the UK and European economy.
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UAE residents searching finance's finer details
Dramatic rises in enquiries on ‘free for life’ credit cards and Islamic finance loans