First time in the economic history of Japan is the boardroom of a company for death by overwork in the parents of a deceased employee convicted.The 24-year-old Motoyasu Fukiage died of a heart attack in 2007 after serving as an employee of the restaurant chain Daisyo Nihonkai Shoya had to pay regularly over 100 hours of overtime per month.
Toyota has confirmed last week against the Mainichi Shimbun that it will pay the penalty demanded by the U.S. Department of Transportation without delay. The amount to be paid is the equivalent of about € 13 million, making it the largest fine ever demanding the U.
Japan will ease by July once again the visa requirements for Chinese individual tourists. With this measure, the government hopes to increase the number of tourists and boost the economy.Last year was allowed for Chinese people with an annual income of € 26,000, the individual travel. Now, the visa facilitation will be extended to China with a permanent position in a large company or in public administration from an average income.
Cheap Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo is planning big. By 2020, new offshoot opened in China in 1000 and sales increased to over 10 billion dollars. Uniqlo has currently 59 stores in Hong Kong and China.”China has transformed itself from a developing country to the central economic engine in the world”, explains CEO Tadashi Yanai his latest project at a press conference in Shanghai.
The governor of Miyazaki Prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu, Hideo Higashikokubaru, has declared on Tuesday due to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease state of emergency. It is no longer possible to stop the spread of highly contagious viral disease of cattle and hogs, warned Higashikokubaru.
Japan follows, if somewhat belatedly, the trend of banning smoking in public places. In Kanagawa Prefecture is a ban in force since April this year. A nationwide ban will follow soon. The Japanese tobacco company Japan Tobacco has responded by presenting the first smoke-free cigarette in the world.
The bloody clashes between government troops and Red Shirts are having an increasing impact on businesses operating in Bangkok. Yomiuri Shimbun reported as the, are located on the outskirts of the production but hardly affected by the unrest and have yet to meet in Thailand Japanese firms first active safety measures.
The Greek debt crisis, which will take longer and longer, makes Japan's export industries are increasingly nervous. The associated appreciation of the yen against the euro, many fear even a throwback to the dark days of financial crisis two years ago, when Japan's exports downright broke.On 11 May cost of € 118 yen.
Japan's steel exports in fiscal 2009, which lasted until the end of March, grew by 14.2 percent and reached 39 million tons with a new record. Thus Japan's steel exports have reached the same level as before the crisis.The previous record was 38.45 million tons in fiscal year 2007. In March alone, an increase of steel exports by 60.
In the crisis, Japan's Discover the consumer second-hand market. What was once reserved for collectors and young people with an unusual taste in fashion is becoming mainstream. Sales by Book-Off, the largest second-hand bookseller in Japan, which also leads other items in the three quarters since April 2009 by 22 percent to 52.