We’ve decided to stop trying to compile the Top 30 largest Japanese employers in the UK by corporate grouping. Partly this is because a substantial number of Japanese companies in the UK have become branches, so do not report their …
Read MoreIn the seven years since the Brexit referendum, the benefits of Japanese long term planning for resilience have become clear. Although employment by Japanese companies in the UK has fallen since 2018/9, this is largely in the automotive …
Read MoreToyo Keizai’s ranking of Japanese companies who have contributed the most financially to CSR activities (either donations or “in kind” activities) show that, unsurprisingly, those sectors which most directly impact Japanese citizen’s lives are also those who contribute the most.…
Read MoreThe statement by Stellantis that it may be forced to shut some of its UK operations if the current local content rules in the Brexit deal continue prompted me to take a look at the current situation for Japanese car …
Read MoreOur top 30 Japanese companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa for 2022 (download available below) shows that there has been a modest growth in total employee numbers to 593,195,* up around 3% from 575,962 in 2021. We estimate over …
Read MoreBritain is going through another “winter of discontent”, of multiple strikes. The description comes from a soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Richard III and has been used whenever social or political unrest coincides with dark, cold, wet British winters.
I remember the …
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The total number of UK employees of the top 30 Japanese company groups fell 2.6% from 2019/20 to 2020/2021 – a strengthening of the downward trend in employee numbers since 2018/9. The peak of employment by the 30 largest Japanese …
I thought the top companies paying 30 year old women the most in Japan would be mainly foreign companies, but actually over two thirds of the top 30 companies are Japanese, according to OpenWork – and in sectors that are …
Read MoreThe annual survey by JETRO of Japanese multinationals shows that many are struggling to return to pre-COVID levels of profitability. 65% of the 7,000 companies surveyed expect to be profitable by the end of FY 2022 (March 31 2023) …
Read MoreComparing the top ranked Japanese companies for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Toyo Keizai’s 2022 rankings* with the 2007 rankings shows how the Japanese corporate landscape has changed. The three telecoms companies – NTT, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI – …
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