A record breaking 54 1 Japanese public companies faced shareholder proposals in the June 2019 annual meeting proxy season. The number of public companies facing shareholder proposals in Japan has ...

In 2019, Japan enjoyed its highest foreign visitor numbers on record, rounding off a ten year period of growth in the nation’s tourism sector. Japan’s 2019 Tourist Travel Boom in Numbers 1. The number ...

Japan’s Box Office Hit All-Time High in 2019 The Japanese box office jumped more than 17 percent to a record $2.39 billion (261 billion yen) in 2019, with admissions up more than 15 percent to 194,910 ...

Selling more than 400,000 units in the U.S. in 2019 so far, Toyota’s immensely popular RAV4 is new for 2019 and comes with a revised tough-looking exterior, powerful but frugal hybrid powertrain ...

Just as kids pray for snow so that they can stay home from school, adults desperately want their employers to adopt four-day workweeks. The chance to have that one extra day to relax, take care of ...

Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences is a hub for Japanese drug discovery, particularly for rare diseases overlooked by the pharmaceutical industry. Janssen Japan is looking to Japan’s rich ...

Japan/Korea Account Person of the Year Winner Todd Brininger Accenture Interactive Japan Japan/Korea Agency Head of the Year Winner Etsuko Tsugihara SUNNY SIDE UP Japan Japan/Korea Channel/Engagement ...

The Japanese plug-in electric car market is in a disappointing stage. After a 7% decrease in 2018, in 2019 sales decreased by another 17% year-over-year to 43,867. The market share was just 0.8% ...

The Japanese car market is probably the world’s most peculiar because it features so many models that are only sold there, the ones enthusiasts know as JDM specials. It’s no secret that kei cars reign ...