‘Business & Economy’ Archives
New Minister of Finance, Naoto Kan said 95 JPY is ideal
Today, the new Japanese Minister of Finance, Naoto Kan, placed a press conference for the first time after he started this role. Naoto Kan said that 95JPY to 1 dollar is the right level for Japanese yen. It's not such a surprising word but I'm really amazed by the speed of time of ours. Some years ago, Japanese Yen was around 120 yen to 1 [...]
CHINA MOTOR SHOW in Guangzhou outnumbers Tokyo Show
CHINA is expanding in all kind of business. Like Japan used to be a super power economy in the world, China will become the real power of the world in this century. At the motor show in China, Japanese car makers are exhibiting more cars than they did in Japanese motor show in Tokyo. It simply means that market importance is already transfered [...]
Japan in Deflation
Now at this serious recession or remaining financial crisis time, some say US dollar will fall drastically in the 2 or 3 years and America will experience crazy hyper inflation then. If it really happens, not only world economy but also world order will have to be reset, no matter if it's better or worse. On the contrary, now Japan is [...]
Beatles FUKUBUKURO
In Japan, we celebrate new years day more than Xmas in mind although Xmas party time is really noisy around us everywhere. In recent years we take 3 to 5 day when a new year starts. I remember, when we were children, the new year holiday was just one day, the New Years Day January 1st. Anywhere in Japan, after the new year's holiday, [...]
Will Tuna Sushi disappear ??
When we were very young, we didn't want to eat Tuna Sushi not because we didn't like it but because we had it so many times. Now Tuna Sushi or Tuna is too expensive and we don't eat it so often. More than 30 years ago, my mother often bought Tuna sashimi for our dinner. I would think " no more tuna, please ! Next time, sashimi or Sushi [...]
FAMILY MART may buy AM/PM
Family Mart and AM/PM seem to have started M&A talks. If the news is right, Family Mart is the buyer on AM/PM and if this could be realized, the size of the convenience store network will be the 3rd biggest in Japan next to LAWSON. As far as I know, there are more convenience stores in Japan than we need. It's apparent that severe [...]
ALICO JAPAN losing customers
Alico Japan is a very big insurance company also in Japan. It's maybe the 5 th or 6th biggest company ( this is not correct memory though). And this big insurance company recently is shaken by the leak of large number of customer information. ALICO is a member of AIG group as known well. AIG is supposed to be still faced with financial [...]
McDonald’s never stops
In 1990's McDonald's was faced with serious sales decrease in Japan after a long time prosperity history. But again, McDonald's is back in the top scene in the food industry of Japan. It's said that McDonalds is strong when the economy is worse, and it's like a Japanese fashion brand UNIQLO. News says that McDonalds sales in this [...]
TORAY selected pretty CM girl-CHINAMI SUZUKI
TORAY is a large Japanese textile company. It's dealing with various items and stuff in the market. Although the products are not familiar to guys in Japan, the biggest focus is always the commercial image girl for swimming wears. TORAY's one of the top sales items are swimming wears. The commercial girl is selected annualy and it's publically [...]
YAMAHA PIANO as NO.1
For Piano players, the best piano in the world would be Steinway's. Bosendorferor some German piano could follwo Steinway's piano in the standard reputation. I also play the piano and recently it's becomeing to tell the difference of the sound. It took long time to taste the sound well. The reason for that is because I'm not a [...]
