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☆ Hotel chief apologizes for only changing the water in a spa bath twice a year instead of once a week, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Japanese guesthouse owner has apologized for rarely changing the water in a spa bath, per CNN. The water in the bath should have been changed weekly, according to local regulations. The traditional Japanese bath, known as an onsen, was found to contain potentially deadly bacteria during a health inspection, CNN affiliate TV Asahi reported. Legionella bacteria was found in the Japanese bath at 3,700 times the permitted level, the news outlet reported. According to the report, the bath water, which comes from volcanically heated hot springs, should have been changed weekly to abide by local regulations.

☆ Japan foreign minister to skip G20 meeting in India -official
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

March 1 (Reuters) - Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi will skip a meeting of G20 foreign ministers due to take place in New Delhi, India, this week, a Japanese government official said. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Kenji Yamada will represent Japan at the meetings scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, the foreign ministry said in a statement. Hayashi will attend an in-person meeting of representatives from the Quad countries - the United States, India, Australia and Japan - in India on Friday, the ministry said. Reporting by John Geddie and Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Edmund KlamannOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ China, Japan square off at first security talks in four years
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Sakura Murakami | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Japan in December said it would double defence spending over the next five years to 2% of gross domestic product - a total of $320 billion - to deter China from resorting to military action. Beijing, which increased defence spending by 7.1% last year, spends more than four times as much as Japan on its forces. China is Japan's largest trading partner, accounting for around a fifth of its exports and almost a quarter of its imports. “While relations between Japan and China have a lot of possibilities, we are also facing many issues and concerns," Yamada told Sun. He pointed to their territorial dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, Beijing's recent joint military drills with Moscow and the suspected Chinese surveillance balloons spotted over Japan at least three times since 2019.

☆ China tells Japan it is troubled by Tokyo's military build up
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Sakura Murakami | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] Japanese Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Shigeo Yamada, second from right, speaks to Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong, second left, during the Japan-China security dialogue at the foreign ministry Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, in Tokyo. Shuji Kajiyama/Pool via REUTERSTOKYO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A senior Chinese diplomat told his Japanese counterpart that Beijing was very troubled by Tokyo's military build up and criticised it for adopting a "Cold War mentality" in their first formal security talks in four years. The security talks aimed at easing tensions between the East Asian neighbours come as Tokyo worries, in the wake of Russia's attack on Ukraine, that Beijing will resort to military action to take control of Taiwan, and in doing so embroil Japan. Japan hosts the biggest overseas concentration of American forces outside the United States. Reporting by Sakura Murakami; Writing by Tim Kelly; Editing by Christopher Cushing and Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ China and Japan square off over arms and balloons at first security talks in four years
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

China said it was troubled by Japan's military build up and Tokyo took aim at Beijing's military ties to Russia and its suspected use of spy balloons during the Asian powers' first formal security talks in four years on Wednesday. Japan in December said it would double defense spending over the next five years to 2% of gross domestic product — a total of $320 billion — to deter China from resorting to military action. Beijing, which increased defense spending by 7.1% last year, spends more than four times as much as Japan on its forces. Tokyo plans to acquire longer range missiles that could strike mainland China and to stock up on other munitions it would need to sustain a conflict alongside the large U.S. force it hosts. "The international security situation has undergone vast changes and we are seeing the return of unilateralism, protectionism, and a Cold War mentality," Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said at the start of the meeting in Tokyo with Japanese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shigeo Yamada.

☆ Tokyo booms for shareholder-relations advisers as activists raise pressure
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Makiko Yamazaki | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/2] Men walk past an electric board displaying Nikkei and other countries' indexes outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan January 16, 2023. At that company, activist shareholders have forced board changes, rejected the management's turnaround plan and prompted the company to consider going private to remove them. Shareholder relations advisers do that, too, and they say they are generally more focused on longer-term strategies. EY announced a foray into shareholder relations in Japan in December, with a full-service line-up from identification of shareholders to proxy solicitation. Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp said it would continue to expand its shareholder-relations support unit, Japan Shareholder Services Ltd (JSS), which now has about 80 staff members.

☆ In a Tokyo supermarket, signs of struggle for Japanese business
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Elaine Lies | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

TOKYO, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Japanese supermarket owner Hiromichi Akiba has built his bustling business through close ties with his neighbourhood - the reason, he says, he can't make the price hikes on his wares that would allow him to give his workers a pay rise. "If we were able to pass our costs on by raising prices, we couldn't look our customers in the eyes." To a casual observer, Akiba's business, which he began 31 years ago with a single supermarket and has since expanded into several, is doing well. On a recent weekday afternoon it bustled with customers ranging from young mothers pushing prams to older women using canes. [1/4] Hiromichi Akiba (54), owner of six supermarkets in Tokyo, works at his supermarket named Akidai in Tokyo, Japan January 20, 2023.

[1/3] Toshiya Imura, 38, a comedian-turned-investor, poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters in Tokyo, Japan December 26, 2022. REUTERS/Issei KatoTOKYO, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Japan's newest star investor has no car or hobbies and rarely eats out. Small investors took notice and piled into the companies, which have become known as "Imura stocks". "Good business performance alone can't become alpha," he said, referring to the returns on an investment that exceed a benchmark. Mitsui Matsushima, Sumiseki and First Bank of Toyama all declined to comment when asked about Imura.

Japanese yen and U.S. dollar banknotes are seen with a currency exchange rate graph in this illustration picture taken June 16, 2022. "Japanese households have a thousand trillion in yen deposits. As of June, households had 1,102 trillion yen ($7.7 trillion) in cash and deposits, while private non-financial companies had 325 trillion yen. "There is a risk of what I call capital flight by Japanese households," said Tohru Sasaki, head of Japan markets research at J.P. Morgan Securities in Tokyo. In January 2006, when spreads between U.S. and Japan were at their widest at roughly 440 bps, Japanese households had 1,631 trillion yen of assets.

☆ DOC/ În culisele investițiilor japoneze din agricultură: E-mailuri, interese și companii afiliate
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-05 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +35 min

Au urmat alte schimburi de e-mailuri între Bumacov și Popov. Schimb de emailuri între Popov și BumacovBumacov: JICA l-a recomandat pe Dan. Printre destinatarii e-mailului se număra și Vasile Bumacov care, în aceeași zi, a retrimis mesajul și lui Maxim Popov. Prisacaru afirmă că tot în acea perioadă au și fost inițiate discuțiile despre creditul japonez contractat ulterior, în 2020. Vasile Bumacov a fost ambasador al R. Moldova la Tokyo (Japonia) între 2016 și 2020.

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