The Japanese government has set a goal for Prime-listed companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange of each having at least one female board member by 2025. The aim is to have at least 30 percent of board members be women …
Read MoreMitsubishi Electric’s introduction of a system that will allow employees to work virtually in one country, while being based in another was described as an “evening scoop” by the Nikkei newspaper. The Nikkei then went on to position it as …
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 – …
Read MoreAs in previous years, the top earning executives in Japan over the past year include many non-Japanese people. At number 1 is Shin Jingho, Korean founder of Line (Japanese messaging app), far outstripping all the other big earners, pulling in …
Read MoreWe’ve managed to track down 44 Japan owned companies in Ukraine, employing around 12,700 people. According to Teikoku Databank, there are 57 such companies and branches of Japanese organisations.
By far the largest Japanese employer in Ukraine is Sumitomo …
Read MoreThe new corporate governance code in Japan puts further pressure on Japanese companies to have external, independent directors on their boards. For those companies wanting to be on the new prime market, the code stipulates that a third of directors …
Read MoreSeven out of the ten best paid executives in Japan are not Japanese, according to Tokyo Shoko Research. It’s been more than ten years since Japanese companies were obliged to disclose the details of executives earning more than ¥100m …
Read MoreRecent events marking the 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell have brought back memories for me of 1989, when I was working in London, having graduated from university a year previously. Perhaps it was watching young Eastern Europeans being …
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The UK is the only top 10 European economy where the number of Japanese residents has declined from 2015 to 2016.
The number of Japanese residents in the UK hit an all time high in 2015 of just under 68,000, …
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