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Marposs Japan

Over the top

Global warming may open lucrative new shipping lanes

Weather biz

Forecasting becomes more accurate and more valuable

Too soon to party

European bosses in Japan say the jury is still out on Abenomics

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Dietmar Kielnhofer

General Manager, The Westin Tokyo

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Richard Collasse

Stranger than fiction

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Department store earnings soar

Nationwide department store monthly sales rose 3.9% year-on-year in March, and in Tokyo alone rose nearly 6%. It was the third consecutive month of growth. Revenues were buoyed by strong sales of luxury brands of accessories, jewellery in particular, and apparel since the beginning of spring. Initial results for April were also almost all positive, [...]

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Not for the faint of heart

A television programme about Kiyoshi Amemiya was the first step in Jun Yamazaki’s path to the minefields of such war-ravaged locations as Cambodia, Angola and Colombia. As president of Yamanashi Hitachi Construction Machinery, Amemiya had spent years developing, and energetically deploying, mechanical systems for clearing land mines. The activity appealed strongly to Yamazaki’s humanitarian sense. At [...]

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Automotive Components

Globalisation in play

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Money from waste

Recyclers profit from automated sorting

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Presentation by Timo Varhama, president of UPM-Kymmene Japan

16 May, Grand Hyatt Tokyo

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Hans van der Tang

President, Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in Japan

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A modest proposal

Empowering rural economies

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Free trade for all

David C Hulme talks with Prof. Yorizumi Watanabe of Keio University’s Department of International Political Economy.

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Big questions

Sometimes we need to step back from politics, economics and other “very important” issues and make sure there is room in our lives for family, friends and self-nurturing. When we return to the big issues, it can be good to reflect on just how big they are. In this issue, David McNeill (Too soon to [...]

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