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, …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreFast 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 …
Read MoreAround 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 – …
Read MoreIt’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 …
Read MoreTadashi 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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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 …
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 …
Read MoreToyota‘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 …
Read MoreSending 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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