I was asked to speak at a Portugal-Japan Investment event at the end of 2019. Initially I was worried about what I could say as I was not sure there would be much that would interest Japanese companies in Portugal. …
Read MoreWe covered in a previous post how Japan originated companies continued to increase their presence in Europe – apart from in the UK and Switzerland – over the past 5 years. We used the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs annual …
Read MoreDespite the UK government’s announcement that companies can allow employees to return to their workplaces from August 1st 2020, the Royal Bank of Scotland told 50,000 of its staff to continue working from home until 2021. A friend who …
Read MoreI am asked a variant of this question, several times a year, by Western companies with sales subsidiaries in Japan. They may not say “useless” as such, rather complain about the passivity, and lack of interest in trying something new …
Read MoreMany Japanese companies such as Hitachi and Fujitsu are introducing a “job-type” (job-gata in Japanese) system. The term “job-type” will not be familiar to Europeans, so we will draw on a series in the Nikkei Business to explain the …
Read MoreJapan-owned companies in the UK contributed over £17 million to charity in 2019. £10 million of this, however, was the donation made by First Sentier Investments (formerly First State Investments), owned by Japan’s MUFG Group since 2019.
£8.5m of the …
Read MoreAs the UK-Japan Free Trade Agreement is in its final stages, it seems a good moment to revisit our Top 30 Japanese companies in the UK. Although the headlines seem to be heading towards “pork for cars”, the most important …
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 …
Read MoreWe’ve been publishing our top 30 Japanese companies in Europe intermittently for 5 years now. We regularly receive enquiries for recommendations on which Japanese companies to approach as potential employers. We’re not a recruitment consultancy so we don’t have any …
Read MoreThe 1990s were called the Lost Decade in Japan, and then as the economy seemed to stagnate in the 2000s, it became the Lost Two Decades. Now the Nikkei Business in a recent special series seems to be saying it …
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