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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
East Asia needs to work more closely together as the region tries to cope with the global financial crisis, journalists from Southeast Asian countries told a recent symposium in Tokyo. An agreement reached in late October among the 10 members of the Association of ...
Rapid growth and urbanization have caused serious environmental and energy problems in some Southeast Asian economies, and expectations are high for Japan to provide models and technologies to support sustainable development at affordable costs, the journalists told the Oct. 30 symposium. Evi Mariani, a ...
The global financial turmoil is turning into an economic crisis for Germany, which faces the risk of no growth and increased unemployment in 2009, Moritz Doebler, business editor for Der Tagesspiegel, told the Oct. 10 symposium. “Patience, education and energy” will be the keywords ...
Germany and Japan face some common challenges as they try to maintain growth amid the global financial crisis, veteran journalists from German media organizations told a recent symposium in Tokyo. While Germany expects to be hit much harder than Japan by the turmoil, the ...
Germany’s ambitious targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions — coupled with its policy of phasing out nuclear power generation — pose a very serious challenge for the competitiveness of German industries, Daniel Goffart, a senior editor for politics and the economy at Handelsblatt, told ...
Corporate social responsibility projects aren’t just things you do to be nice, but things you invest in because they are crucial to your long-term business interests, Coca-Cola Chairman Neville Isdel told a recent seminar in Tokyo. “They are nice things to do, but if ...
The next U.S. administration — whether it’s Democratic or Republican — will expect Japan to play a larger role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan as well as “the war on terror” being waged there, a U.S. think tank expert told a recent seminar in ...
Adaptability is the key to survival of even big, successful companies over time, said professor Charles O’Reilly, a professor at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. “Selection. The market says, this is a good idea, and if the market says it’s not a good ...
Despite much hype about the world becoming flat and more global, the world is in fact becoming more regional than global, said Richard Rumelt, a professor of business strategy at UCLA Anderson Business School. “We find trade increasing all around the world, but we ...
The global repercussions from the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States are clear evidence of the growing interconnectedness of the world’s economies, which requires a broader scope and purview on the part of corporate managers, a U.S. expert told a recent business symposium ...
Innovation will be the key to the survival of advanced economies in the intensifying competition with emerging powers with cost advantages. But simply boosting the amount of money spent on research and development will not create innovative products or services. And innovation is not ...
Japan could be left behind in renewable energy innovation unless it creates a large domestic market in this field, Ashley Seager, economics correspondent for The Guardian newspaper, warned in the May 23 symposium. While nuclear power has been touted here as a clean source ...