iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus & Apple Watch Series 2 to Support FeliCa, Giving Users an Easy, Fast & Secure Way to Pay & Commute Apple Pay will let iPhone 7 users in Japan commute quickly and easily with Suica. San Francisco — Apple ...
Listed companies in Japan saw average pretax profits rise 2% on the year in the April-June quarter, despite April’s consumption tax hike. Automakers and consumer electronics companies were among the top performers in a Nikkei pretax ...
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) is to establish a new business unit, the "Turkey Nuclear IPP Development Department," to step up its involvement in the Sinop nuclear power plant (NPP) project under way in the Republic of Turkey for ...
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A privacy debate has erupted in Japan over a new service from a major rail operator that sells private e-ticket records as marketing data. This week East Japan Railway (JR East), the country's largest rail company, has begun offering for ...
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The latest victim of disruption by Internet technologies is a veteran of World War I: the missing persons search. French police will no longer search for adults reported missing by their families unless there are signs that the person is ...
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According to the Japanese Ministry of Trade (METI), Japanese demand for crude steel in the second quarter of the current year is expected to decrease by 0.9 percent from the previous quarter to 26.4 million mt, with an expected decline of ...
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Effective April 1 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. of Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, will jointly establish MI LNG Company, Limited, a company to handle the design and marketing of LNG (liquefied ...
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According to the survey published on December 23 showed that 54.4% of Japanese companies think that Japan's economy go worse, compared with a survey in September, it increased more than five times, personal consumption, investment in ...
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JFE Shoji Trade Corporation announced that the integration of JFE Shoji Usuitakenzai Corporation,whose main market is in East Japan and JFE Seibu Usuitakenzai Corporation,whose main market is in West Japan,has been decided to establish more ...
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to provide Kawauchi Village, Fukushima Prefecture, with a new cultivation method for LED-based plant growth facilities for free. The village, headed by Mr. Yuko Endo, is now building an LED-based plant ...
Japanese convenience store operator Lawson said today (3 July) its continued focus on fresh food in its stores allowed it to grow its customer base during the first quarter of the year. Lawson said operating profit increased 8.4% on the ...
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Outline of operations results for the year ended March 31, 2012 In the year ended March 31, 2012, the economy in Western Europe, which was once on a recovery trend, slowed down due to the effects of financial crisis etc. However, German ...
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Otto Japan Inc. has upgraded its email platform by adopting Microsoft Exchange Online from Microsoft Office 365. The fashion retailer, which sells its diverse product line through catalogues, stores and online, wanted to move away from ...
Kobelco's sales of construction equipment totalled JPY 355 billion (US$ 4.40 billion) in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 - level with the previous year.A +17% increase in crawler crane sales compensated for a fall in the company's ...
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The sales of LED ceilling lights have boomed from the aftermath of the Great East Japan earthquake, with energy efficient appliances performing particularly well. According to GfK, LED ceiling lights have seen a remarkable increase, with ...
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