Lawrence Ho, son of Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho, plans to invest more than $5 billion in Japan if Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. receives permission to build a casino here as he sees constraints on development at home. Ho’s maneuver to build projects in ...

Over the past 39 years, Toshifumi Suzuki has expanded 7-Eleven to 50,000 outlets, more than any other retail chain. Now, at the age of 80, he says he has no interest in retiring. He’s got too much work to do. “I’m not thinking about ...

Naoyuki Ide is betting that a weaker yen will drive more Japanese people to drink his locally made craft beers. The president of Yo-Ho Brewing Co. is boosting production capacity at the microbrewery in Nagano by 50 percent this year as he anticipates the ...

Bank of Japan Policy Board member Ryuzo Miyao said Wednesday the central bank is ready to take “appropriate” action as needed to support the economy amid worries that the yen will stay strong. “An area of concern is that the strong yen is taking ...

When Yuta Moriya was offered Apple Inc.’s 613-gram iPad by his employer last summer, he envisioned a future free of lugging his laptop around for client visits. He was wrong. “I used to have to carry my laptop, a charger and some brochures,” said ...