Japan Tobacco

Your next vacation in sun-drenched Turkey may now be a lot cheaper. On the flip side, corporate profits from selling goods locally are dwindling by the day when converted to home currencies. The effects of the imploding Turkish currency are now rippling through the boardrooms ...

Japan Tobacco Inc. has agreed to buy a Bangladeshi cigarette manufacturer for 124.3 billion taka ($1.5 billion), taking its acquisition strategy to one of Asia's fastest-growing economies. The Tokyo-based company is acquiring the tobacco business of Akij Group, the second-largest tobacco company in Bangladesh, Japan ...

Lighting up in public facilities prohibited for the first time as the nation scrambles to combat secondhand smoke in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Games.

The former CIA agent arrested in the United States earlier this week on suspicion of helping Chinese spies was a security guard at Christie's in Hong Kong, the auction house said Thursday. Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a naturalized U.S. citizen also known ...

Japan Tobacco Inc.'s Masamichi Terabatake is in the hot seat. The 52-year-old started off 2018 by taking the helm of the world's third-largest tobacco company. While the view from his new Tokyo office may be different than the one from his previous stint at the ...

Japan Tobacco Inc. has tapped Masamichi Terabatake, executive vice president of Switzerland-based JT International SA, as the next leader of the parent to succeed incumbent President Mitsuomi Koizumi. Terabatake, 51, will take over as president of Japan Tobacco on Jan. 1, 2018. He will obtain ...

While most tobacco companies have embraced smokeless products to survive ever-tightening controls, the Japanese maker of Winston and Camel cigarettes is pressing ahead with a more low-tech strategy: Selling smokes to emerging markets. Japan Tobacco Inc., whose domestic market is predicted to shrink 27 percent ...

Japan Tobacco has said it would pay nearly $1 billion to buy Mighty Corp., the Philippines' No. 2 cigarette firm, marking its second acquisition in Southeast Asia this month. One of the world's biggest tobacco companies, whose global brands include Winston and Camel, Japan Tobacco ...

Japan's tobacco tax revenue is likely to drop by more than ¥50 billion ($460 million) this year as more smokers switch to heated tobaccos containing less tobacco leaves, according to an estimate compiled Friday by Kyodo News and a research institute. The fall is sure ...

The tobacco industry continues to subvert government attempts to prevent tobacco-related deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in a fresh call to counter corporate lobbying and litigation. Countries with partly state-owned tobacco companies, such as Japan, which has a stake in Japan ...

Smoker Takumi Itou is an example of how much Japan Tobacco Inc. needs to catch up, as international rivals gain ground in the battle to offer the next generation of smoking alternatives. Itou has been using a ¥9,980 ($89) IQOS device made by Philip Morris ...