Major Japanese supermarket chains suffer from significant sales declines. With the clothing sales, which is due to the higher margins on foods considered to be extremely lucrative, the industry hoped for a recovery. But even the import of known clothing brands from abroad and the hiring of people with no experience have brought home buying. (more…)
Oct
04
The supermarkets learn from Uniqlo
Oct
02
As a typhoon is fought
Every year numerous typhoons from the Pacific coast to rejoin Japanese. Depending on the strength of this storm, storm damage can be caused millions of dollars. Ise Kogyo, the Japanese company has developed a few years ago an idea of how to at least reduce the force of the typhoon, and subject to the patent in Japan and India, as the Mainichi Shimbun reported. (more…)
Sep
30
Beijing's assault on the iPad
In various major cities of China was established on 17 September, the new Apple iPad launches, after the company was faced with some obstacles ahead. Five months after the official launch in the U.S. is now in China so far: Even in the storms of rain-hit Beijing, urging the masses to get hold of a copy from the Apple Store. (more…)
Sep
27
Japan's automakers seek ways out in South Korea
Japanese automakers like Toyota and Nissan are trying because of the strong yen, instead of increasing, parts for the automotive industry too favorably of South Korean suppliers as far from local suppliers. This measure brings the Japanese automotive suppliers in distress, and analysts even fear an erosion of the Japanese automotive industry. (more…)
Sep
23
Japan pushes the yen
The Japanese Ministry of Finance has On Wednesday for the first time in more than 6 years intervened in the foreign exchange market to weaken the strong yen. After Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda gave the green light for action, the dollar gained against the yen in strength and it fell from its peak level in 15 years. (more…)
Sep
18
Bank failure in Japanese
The Japanese Incubator Bank on Friday with an indebtedness of 180.4 billion yen for the funds deposited with the bank an incubator.A bank is not like any otherThe decision to limit deposit insurance depends obviously connected with the peculiarities of the Incubator Bank. (more…)
Sep
15
Japan's economy and the yen climb
Despite the strong yen Surpassed in July, new orders for machinery and Japan's trade surplus exceeded expectations. Incoming orders rose by 8.8 percent. This is the largest increase this year. The trade surplus grew year on year by 26 percent to 1.676 trillion yen.Yen exchange rate risk factorJapan's economic recovery seems therefore to move on for now. (more…)
Sep
14
ANA wants to shake up Japan's airline industry
All Nippon Airways .CEO Shinchiro Ito wants to go one step further. He dreams of building a low-cost airline, which is to be competitive in Japan and Asia, while cannibalizing the parent airline ANA will not. Together with a yet to be announcing investor wants to All Nippon Airways to make this dream come true. (more…)
Sep
09
Reading mainland for Taiwan
Taiwan is admitted for the first time a magazine from the mainland: After a month, received a thorough examination in Lanzhou permission to publish in Taiwan.Duzhe strongly reminiscent of the American magazine Reader's Digest and is the best-selling magazine on the mainland, with a circulation of 10 million. (more…)
Sep
07
The summer of awakening from Sony
The Walkman, which is the father of all portable music devices. In 1979 he experienced in the form of the TPS-L2 was born. Two decades, he became a status symbol for the youth – to Apple's iPod in the new millennium, the Walkman made redundant.Since November 2001, running behind the trendsetters of the former American competitors. (more…)