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CORPORATE JAPAN

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 11, 2018
Are we addressing the core labor issues?
Corporate Japan must change its 20th-century mentality toward work.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 30, 2018
A prologue to work-style reforms
Japan needs to overhaul its labor market to make the most of its shrinking workforce.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 20, 2017
Making Japanese small business thrive
It's time for Japan's small and medium-size enterprises to embrace technological solutions to find global customers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 20, 2017
What the world can learn from Japan's factories
Countries hoping to revive their manufacturing sectors should look east for answers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 5, 2017
Let's make 2018 the year of the wage surge
If the Abe administration wants companies to open their wallets, it must disrupt corporate Japan's incrementalism.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 17, 2017
The Kobe Steel fiasco tells a much bigger story
The Kobe Steel scandal offers insights into why more Japanese households aren't feeling the benefits of today's 2.5 percent growth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 16, 2017
Japan Inc. scandals build case for corporate reform
Another big scandal is rocking corporate Japan. This time it's Kobe Steel Ltd., a major producer, which has confessed to faking data on the quality of its materials. Everything from bullet trains to cars to U.S.-made airliners could be affected. It's doubtful that the scandal will wreak lasting damage on Japan's reputation for top-notch manufacturing quality — after all, every country's industrial giants suffer this sort of debacle from time to time. But Kobe Steel does show that Japanese companies need better corporate governance. Along with recent accounting scandals, cover-ups by major firms as well as falsified data at airbag maker Takata Corp., the incident shows that Japanese companies need to work harder to catch these problems earlier, instead of just apologizing after it's too late.
EDITORIALS
Aug 20, 2017
Learning from overseas M&A cases that went wrong
Japanese companies that have an appetite for overseas M&As should first learn from the mistakes of others.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 17, 2017
For the sake of productivity, put a woman in charge
A shift from long hours to efficient, goal-oriented work is exactly the right medicine for white-collar Japan
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 27, 2017
What Japan Inc. should learn from Takata
Now, as Tokyo sorts out the biggest failure in postwar Japanese manufacturing, it's all too possible its political and corporate cultures will learn little from 'Takatagate.'
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 24, 2017
Lessons Japan Inc. must learn from Ghosn
The CEO who revived an ailing Nissan showed an insular, change-averse Japan Inc. that there is another way.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 16, 2017
Toshiba underlines why Abenomics is failing
Toshiba is the poster child for how little headway the government has made in modernizing corporate governance practices.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 30, 2017
The Bank of Japan has a 'Toyota problem'
BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's fight to lift inflation is being stymied by stingy Japan Inc.'s refusal to fatten paychecks.
EDITORIALS
Jan 19, 2017
Varied agenda in wage talks
Overwork and pay raises are major issues in this year's union-management wage negotiations.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 1, 2016
The usefulness of Zen in management culture
Zen should be an integral part of educational curricula and an inspiring driver of business practices.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 19, 2016
Why it pays off to hire women as managers
Research suggests that women can be better at making managerial decisions than men, a lesson Japan can benefit from.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 16, 2016
Line's IPO revives the 'Galapagos syndrome'
The messaging app's $1 billion IPO is a credit to its innovation but that's no guarantee of success beyond Japan.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 14, 2016
Corporate social responsibility can save Japan
Corporate Japan should not continue to miss the opportunity to brand itself as a hub of sustainability excellence.
EDITORIALS
Apr 8, 2016
Still a struggle for working women
The corporate glass ceiling remains an obstacle to working women 30 years after the equal employment opportunity law was passed.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 29, 2016
How Sharp is denting the Japan brand
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should use his bully pulpit to shakeup corporate Japan and bolster competitiveness.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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