Keidanren

The trade conflict between the United States and China has been gradually but steadily hurting the world economy, the head of Japan's biggest business lobby warned Monday. "I'm truly feeling some of the impact" from the tariff battle between the world's two largest economies, Keidanren ...

At the same time, the 72-year-old organization reflects the most traditional — and at times outdated — aspects of corporate Japan.

Japan's largest business lobby stressed on Tuesday the importance of structural reforms while pushing for actors in the political and corporate spheres to drive the innovation they say will help overcome the nation's labor and productivity challenges. In his new-year message, Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman of ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday asked business leaders to raise wages to spur consumption and mitigate the impact of next October's planned sales tax hike, the sixth consecutive year he has requested such an increase. "I would like to request a wage hike that ...

Amazon Japan, a unit of U.S. online retail giant Amazon.com Inc., and flea market app operator Mercari Inc. joined Keidanren on Friday, the organization said. Keidanren, the country's top business lobby and whose membership mainly consists of major manufacturers, is apparently looking to reflect views ...

The government is expected to propose that Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi head the new body that will succeed the Osaka 2025 World Expo bid committee and oversee the organizing of the event, sources said Saturday. The Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions on ...

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) published an article on June 17 that was critical of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), a lobbying organization made up of more than 1,300 of the country's biggest companies. The Nikkei has always been in Keidanren’s corner, so it ...

Keidanren's easing of recruiting limitations represents a small step toward better hiring practices in Japan.

Every spring, hordes of young people dressed in matching dark business suits descend on workplaces across the country. They have not yet joined the ranks of the country's ubiquitous salarymen and women but rather are university students beginning a monthslong job hunt. But as companies ...

Japan’s largest business lobby has decided to scrap its long-held guidelines for corporate hiring of university students to give flexibility in recruiting amid increasing competition for new talent.