‘Business & Economy’ Archives
China became the biggest trading partner of Japan
Of course,the USA has been the largest country for Japan in the sense of trading and influence after the war. Japanese prosperity after the war, in a sense, was realized by the relation with the USA. But China seems to have taken place of the NO.1 trading status for Japan, according to the recent news. This is a good news. It's really [...]
SEIBU department Yurakucho store to close this year
This is a little shocking news for me because I often visit this department store. SEIBU department store has a lot of branch stores in Japan, and Yurakucho store or the Ginza area store is one of the most sophisticated branch store of them all. It's located just near the Yurakucho station, and the building is a complex with some good cinema [...]
DENTSU buys Innovation Interactive
I don't know the present status of the Advertising company, Dentsu. But it used to be ( or still is ) a world largest advertising company. At least Dentsu is the largest AD company in Japan still with a big distance to the second company, Hakuhodo. That guliver like company, Dentsu, seems to buy an American internet advertising company [...]
FUNAI becomes the 2nd TV set selling maker in the USA
To be honest, FUNAI is not that familiar to us in Japan. Funai is an electric appliance maker of Japan, but like everyone, I know Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, Sharp, Sanyo, Kenwood or Pioneer better than Funai. The reason why I write about Funai here is that Funai became the 2nd company in the USA in sales result of TV [...]
ALICO JAPAN to be bought by Metlife ?
Alico Japan is faced with hardship still. After the world financial crisis, users are worried about the running condition of Alico, and Alico Japan too. Alico Japan grew with a lot of TV and Paper Ads for direct sales of insurance. Not a single day passes without seeing the Ads of Alico or AIG group's of Japan. Also the cost for the [...]
JAL at 2 cents only
Japan air lines' legal bankruptcy is a matter of time. They are preparing the restart by resetting all the system. Japan air lines used to be a symbol of Japanese development after the 2nd world war. When the international travel started in Japan, the air fare was too high for standard people, and it was their dream to experience the flight [...]
Tadashi Yanai, the president of UNIQLO as NO.1 man of property
Again, an amazing new came out today. Forbes reported today that Tadashi Yanai, President of Uniqlo, is this year's NO.1 man of property in Japan. He was also last year's NO.1 so this is the second time. UNIQLO is certainly a growing company of Japan, but it's such a simple casual wear company. But the president of the simple company is [...]
JAL, Japan Air Lines under bunkruptcy law
Japan air lines, JAL, is decided to be handled by law because of it's huge deficit and weak running condition. JAL is a national air line of Japan. So the government can't decide to let it bunkrupt. If it stops flying, it means the people of Japan and people coming to Japan will lose the connection to the world. Anyway, there are many [...]
Ineternet Speed NO.1 is Japan
OECD report says that Japanese internet speed is the fastest in the world by 61Mbps. Actually I'm using optical internet, which conveys 100Mbps at home, but it's not expensive at all. Also, through this internet line, multi channel TV program is broadcasted. So we have many options for internet life after fast internet environment is [...]
3D TV set becomes next hit item ?
Today's news again reported about 3D TV set, which was about the electric products show in Las Vegas. 3D visual entertainments are still very popular in some large theme parks like Disneyland or Universal Studios. So more or less people may know what the 3D TV is like. Actually I also still remember the experience of 3D visual [...]
