Archive for August, 2011

Who is CEO?

In an unusual move, the supplier listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange U-Shin Ltd.. on 25 July in full-page newspaper advertisements advertised the post of company president. Wanted young, dynamic candidates who are fluent in English and Japanese, and operate successfully in global business can have.


A small mobile revolution

Japanese telecom company and the mobile phone manufacturers are working together so closely that the SIM card is permanently installed in each mobile phone. The customer is bound by contract for years at the telecom operator. He moves to a competitor, it must also change the mobile phone.

Strong yen, weak policy

The Nikkei stock index has the 4th Times in a row closed in negative territory. On Tuesday, the index fell for the first time since the first May 2009 under the psychologically critical threshold of 9,000 points at 8995.14. A day later, he graduated with 8845.39 points even deeper.The trigger for the case of the Nikkei was a conversation between Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Masaaki Shirakawa, the governor of the Bank of Japan.

What does the decline of HMV

After 20 years, has closed the British music store chain HMV's flagship store in his trendy Shibuya district Tokyo this week. HMV is suffering like every other CD shops with declining revenues. CD sales in Japan have shrunk in comparison to the best of times by 60 percent, the Yomiuri Shimbun wrote.

Jeans from Pyongyang

In 2007, three young Swedes had a crazy investment idea: jeans, produced in North Korea. With a simple e-mail to the government, the project started. A little later, Jakob Ohlsson, Jacob Åström and Tor Rauden Källstigen after Pyongyang were loaded.Your first night she spent in a karaoke bar.

Not quite clean cigarette

Electric cigarettes are designed to help smokers kick the habit from her. The battery-powered, cigarette-shaped device that allows the feeling of smoking, reproduce, electronically produced by inhaling steam, which is usually enriched with an aroma.Has now found a Japanese consumer organization in a test that 11 of the 25 sold in Japan, electronic cigarettes contain traces of nicotine.

As the heat is earned with money

The continuing record heat caused up to now mainly for negative headlines. By mid-August over 100 people had died from the effects of a heat shock, about 30,000 were hospitalized. Now announced first positive messages from the business community in connection with the heat wave, which is fueling demand for certain products to skyrocket.

The skyscraper with the big names

The 238-meter-high skyscraper Roppongi Hills opened in 2003. Since then, the complex of shops, museums, restaurants, cinemas and bars, the symbol of Tokyo's bustling Roppongi district has become.Known companies such as Yahoo, Rakuten, Livedoor, Goldman Sachs, Japan Ferrari or call Barclay Capital's Roppongi Hills home.

How to benefit from the strong Japanese yen

The yen is so strong as ever. Meanwhile, you get € 1 for a little less than 110 yen. End of April the share price was 125 yen. For Japan's exports, this means nothing good. But for Japanese tourists traveling abroad are more appealing.How Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ is reported, broken out a veritable ague.

The great leap forward

China, Japan has the second Quarter of 2010 as the second largest economic power in the world replaced. Japan's gross domestic product grew in the second Quarter to 0.4 percent, remaining well below the projected 2.3 percent growth. In the first Quarter, the increase amounted to 4.4 percent.This year the Japanese economy is expected to grow by 2 percent to 3 percent.