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Fast Retailing to expand in Europe

Fast Retailing, the owner of the Uniqlo brand, is intending to launch its sister brand GU in Europe. GU is pronounced ji-yuu, which means freedom in Japanese. It is aimed at the 10 to 30 year old age bracket, …

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Japanese companies whose stock prices have increased by more than fortyfold since Japan’s stock market peak in 1989 – are they in Europe?

The Nikkei has just published a list of Japanese companies whose stock price increased tenfold or more over the past 34 years. Many are in advanced technology manufacturing, food, retail and digital services and with a few exceptions, their overseas …

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“Job type system” not the cure-all for Japanese employee engagement

Fast Retailing (Uniqlo) has caused quite a stir in Japan by announcing that it will raise salaries by up to 40%. It claims this is in order to bring the Japanese salaries more into line with what Uniqlo is paying …

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Top 30 Japanese employers in Russia

Around 35,000 employees in Russia worked for 224 Japan owned companies and operations at the beginning of 2022, according to our calculations.  This makes Russia the 11th largest host of Japanese companies in the European region by employee number – …

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Top 30 Japanese employers in France 2021

It’s been 4 years since we last looked at the top 30 Japanese employers in France. Much of what was true four years’ ago is true today. The top 30 partly reflects France’s traditional strengths, at least in Japanese …

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“If we carry on like this, Japan will perish” – Uniqlo’s founder Tadashi Yanai

Tadashi Yanai, founder and president of Fast Retailing (Uniqlo) has some hard hitting words for the Nikkei Business magazine series “Wake Up Japan”:

“Japan is the only country which relies mainly on one big intake of domestic graduate hires …

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Acquire or be acquired – predictions on the future of Japanese mergers and acquisitions

Japanese companies used to be seen as very reluctant to acquire and merge with other companies, but the record breaking £46bn acquisition, finalised in January 2019, of Irish pharmaceuticals company Shire by Japan’s Takeda may not even be the peak …

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Size matters when choosing a Japanese company

Whether you’re looking to work for or supply to a Japanese company, size matters.  The most obvious reason being, as bank robber Willie Sutton apparently never said, “that’s where the money is”.  That’s why we started our Top 30 …

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Not just Toyota – the Brexit rebalancing has already started

Toyota‘s warnings at Davos that it was having to consider how to survive in the UK after Brexit were preceded by a very under-the-radar announcement that it would be making some redundancies at its Burnaston plant.  It is a …

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Will there be a return on sending Japanese interns abroad?

Sending Japanese students abroad as interns has become very popular in the past year or so, according to Nikkei Business.  The Uniqlo brand owner Fast Retailing sends around 73 students a year to Singapore, London and Melbourne.  Sompo Japan Nipponkoa…

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