Japan

TOKYO (March 17): Graduate recruitment in Japan looks a bit like a scene from the movie "The Matrix." Hordes of students dressed in identical black suits and white shirts make the rounds of seminars, tests and interviews. Even as jobs outnumber a

HONG KONG (March 16): Nike Inc. was chided by a consumer-protection show on state-run television in China, giving a black eye to the athletic brand in its second-biggest market.

SINGAPORE (March 14): Technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have hit an all-time global value record of US$466.6 billion ($660.1 billion) in 2016.

SINGAPORE (March 13): The financial regulatory bodies of Singapore and Japan have reached an agreement to enhance FinTech linkages between the two countries.

SINGAPORE (March 9): Logistics facilities provider GLP has signed 69,000 sqm of new leases in China and Japan over the past three months.

SINGAPORE (Feb 27): While 87% of investment providers in Asia Pacific agree that digital transformation is important for the future of their organisation, few of them are on track to become digital leaders in their fields, according to a recent report pub

SINGAPORE (Feb 22): Sheldon Adelson – one of the world’s richest men and notably among the biggest funders of Donald Trump’s US presidency campaign – has pledged to spend up to US$10 billion ($14.2 billion) on building a casino facility in Japan,

SINGAPORE (Feb 20): CIMB Securities is reiterating its “add” recommendation on CapitaLand with an unchanged price target of $4.19, after the property developer’s recent announcement of some $620.1 million worth of acquisitions in Japan.

TOKYO (Feb 16): Sleep deprivation is doing more harm in Japan than just making people grumpy and unhealthy. It is also holding back the world’s third-largest economy.

(Feb 2): If Donald Trump slapped China with punishing tariffs, the pain would also be felt by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, vital cogs in a regional supply chain that allows China to build widgets and gadgets for the world.