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Japan Times
North Rhine-Westphalia report 2019
Jun 28, 2019

UBE Europe: Diversity and opportunity lead to success

Headquartered in Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, the UBE Group is active in chemicals, construction materials and machinery across key international markets. Having conducted business in Europe for over 50 years, today UBE Europe GmbH in Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, is reaching out to new...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 27, 2019

Europe sizzles under record temperatures, fueling concern about climate change

Europeans fought to stay cool as a blast of hot air from the Sahara Desert sent temperatures to records in large parts of the continent, adding to concern about climate change.
Japan Times
Special Supplements / G20 Osaka Summit Special
Jun 27, 2019

Syrian student hopes to share ideas of peace

Mohamad Ghaith Alzin is not your run-of-the-mill overseas student. The information systems science student chose Soka University for his postgraduate studies partly due to his interest in Japan, but mostly because he could not study in his home country.
GLOBAL INSIGHT / Bahrain report 2019
Jun 26, 2019

The Bahrain Airport Modernization Program

The launch of Bahrain International Airport’s (BIA) brand-new 210,000-square-meter passenger terminal building in 2019 will reinforce the kingdom’s central position in Middle Eastern air transportation. Four times larger than the current facility, it will be capable of processing 130,000 air traffic...
GLOBAL INSIGHT / Bahrain report 2019
Jun 26, 2019

Empowering local talent

The Bahrain Airport Company (BAC) is committed to building the skills of Bahraini citizens and helping them to reach their full potential. Currently, an impressive 80 percent of BAC’s employees are drawn from the local population and the goal is to increase that to 90 percent by 2021. But operating...
GLOBAL INSIGHT / Bahrain report 2019
Jun 26, 2019

Leading the world in aluminum

In 2019, Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) will fully bring online a major expansion of its production site that will make it the world’s largest single-site aluminum smelter. “We will generate an extra 540,000 metric tons a year (mtpa) of the metal, giving us a total capacity of over 1.5 million mtpa,...
GLOBAL INSIGHT / Bahrain report 2019
Jun 26, 2019

Maximizing the potential of people and businesses

Bahrain is focused on advancing its private sector and making it the key driver of an increasingly diverse, competitive, entrepreneurial and knowledge-based economy.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 25, 2019

Mitsubishi to buy Bombardier's regional jet unit for $550 million

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. agreed to buy Bombardier Inc.'s CRJ regional-jet program for $550 million, extending a push into commercial aircraft and setting up a rivalry with Embraer SA and Boeing Co.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jun 19, 2019

China's most advanced Big Brother experiment is a bureaucratic mess

The city of Suzhou, known as "the Venice of the East" for its web of intricate waterways, captured the imagination of Marco Polo when he journeyed through China more than seven centuries ago.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2019

Former chemistry teacher Zhong Huijuan becomes richest self-made woman in Asia

Two days ago, Zhong Huijuan wasn't even the richest person in her family.
Reader Mail
Jun 14, 2019

Refusing overtime should be a choice

The Media Mix column headlined “Missing an opportunity to tackle workplace woes” in the May 19 issue brought me back to my dismal career as a worker.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2019

Huawei fights to keep U.S. funds flowing to its rural mobile customers

China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., the world's biggest telecom equipment maker, argued on Wednesday that Washington should scrap plans to prohibit wireless companies from using U.S. government funds to buy Huawei gear for their networks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 12, 2019

Renault's Jean-Dominique Senard weakened as Macron snubs meeting, say sources

French President Emmanuel Macron has turned down a request to meet Renault chairman Jean-Dominique Senard, who is furious over the government's interference at the carmaker, sources told Reuters, raising questions over Senard's future.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 12, 2019

Dai Watanabe: Forging his own path, away from the familiar

Though he rarely acknowledges the fact in public, Dai Watanabe is the son of Ken Watanabe: arguably Japan's most internationally known actor since Toshiro Mifune. Among Japanese media, the fact is common knowledge, though in interviews with Watanabe junior, the subject is often off-limits.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 12, 2019

In wake of info leak, Nomura Holdings shareholders urged to reject CEO's re-election bid

Nomura Holdings Inc. shareholders should vote against the reappointment of its long-standing chief executive officer after Japan's biggest brokerage was penalized for leaking market-sensitive information, according to Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 12, 2019

India evacuates hundreds of thousands as Cyclone Vayu builds fury

India evacuated hundreds of thousands of people to shelters along the coast in its western state of Gujarat as a cyclone gathering intensity over the Arabian Sea was expected to hit land on Thursday.
Japan Times
Philippines report 2019
Jun 12, 2019

The Yuchengco group of companies: A trusted ‘nation-building’ partner committed to serving Japanese investors in the Philippines

The Yuchengco Group of Companies (YGC) Chairperson, Helen Yuchengco Dee and Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) Corporate Vice-Chairman Cesar E.A. Virata, discuss new opportunities.
Japan Times
Philippines report 2019
Jun 12, 2019

30 years of growth based on a passion for innovation

Tsukiden Global Solutions Inc. has been a pioneer within the Philippines’ information technology sector since 1989.
Japan Times
Philippines report 2019
Jun 12, 2019

Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corp. reaches new milestones

Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corp. (MMPC) was established in the Philippines 56 years ago. MMPC, being the most successful Mitsubishi Motors country operations in terms of market share, was able to surpass the turbulent economic challenges such as the recession in the 1980s, the 1997 Asian financial...
Japan Times
Philippines report 2019
Jun 12, 2019

Malayan Insurance tops Philippine nonlife insurer rankings

Malayan Insurance Company, Inc. has secured its position as a leader in the nonlife insurance industry in the Philippines in terms of gross premiums written (GPW) and assets for 2018, according to unaudited industry figures recently released by the Insurance Commission (IC).

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers