While major businesses are prepared to keep their head offices running if a huge earthquake strikes Tokyo, smaller businesses are lagging with their contingency plans, posing a threat to the supply chains of the big manufacturers. The Central Disaster Management Council says there is ...
Companies that made tough decisions about exiting businesses, closing factories and revamping management led to a doubling of corporate earnings last quarter, now at the highest level since 2007. Net income jumped to about ¥5.5 trillion at more than 1,280 of the largest listed ...
To bolster Tokyo’s dwindling profile in Asia, the metropolitan government has launched the Special Zone for Asian Headquarters project to persuade more than 500 foreign companies to set up shop here by 2016.
