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...In Japan, Yokohama-based confectionery chain Fujiya and Osaka-based equipment maker Shimano also report third-quarter figures....
...That company’s headquarters were searched as well before the bit-champing prosecutors raided the offices of the corporation set up to liquidate the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee....
...“You’re [then] better prepared to align your trade association memberships with the company strategy on these issues,” says Maureen Kline, head of public affairs and sustainability at Pirelli Tire North...
...Nissan as a corporation was also charged with the same offence....
...Corporations went on a ¥7.2tn ($66bn) share-buyback spree between January and the end of November, far outpacing previous years....
...In an attempt to catalyse such change, the next Ticad meeting — starting today in Yokohama — will coincide with the establishment of a permanent joint council between the Japanese government and corporations...
...But now, as growth in internet users slows and investors tire of cash-guzzling customer acquisition costs, the sector is pivoting to enterprise....
...Unlike in other sports, where cities and towns host local teams that play to home crowds, Top League teams are not rooted in communities but are attached to corporations....
...In the Moto-Azabu district of Tokyo, Mr Ghosn’s apartment was being searched and in Yokohama, prosecutors were visiting Nissan’s headquarters....
...Donald Trump kicked off the process of imposing tariffs on a further $200bn of imports from China, as the trade war between the two economic powers rapidly escalated, posing a challenge to US corporations...
...plan is approved, the first wave of casino-centric “integrated resorts” could appear in Nagasaki, Tomakomai, on the northern island of Hokkaido, and Fukuoka, as well as the larger metropolises of Osaka, Yokohama...
...After a while, even the junior officers who admired his wit began to tire of his “needlessly offensive” lecturing....
...As rightwing think tanks never tire of reminding us, more than a quarter of income taxes are paid by a tiny sliver of top earners....
...Why other corporations aren’t doing this we just don’t know. (Must not be as creative minded.)...
...Parekh is currently the chairman of Housing Development Finance Corporation, a financial services conglomerate in India....
...And all the coalition’s early tax increases were recycled in the form of tax cuts, not least the higher personal allowance for income tax and the lower rate of corporation tax....
...Yokohama Rubber is to buy Alliance Tire Group in a deal worth $1.18bn. KKR took a majority stake in Alliance, which is headquartered in the Netherlands, in 2013....
...Sir Francis Christopher Buchan Bland was born in 1938 in Yokohama, Japan, where his father was working for Shell....
...The sale comes just months after KKR’s sale of its 90 per cent stake in India’s Alliance Tire Group to Japan’s Yokohama Rubber Company in a $1.2bn deal that saw KKR nearly double its original $500m investment...
...The two favourites, Osaka and Yokohama, have substantial tracts of waterfront land available....
...Outside these obvious ‘Belt and Road’ deals, the Fund has also invested in ChemChina to purchase Italian tire maker Pirelli, invested $100m into the China International Capital Corp (CICC) a state investment...
...Men wanted to be him; women wanted to marry him, bars wanted to serve him whisky till 2am and ambitious corporations wanted as many of him as they could grab....
...A forked road, the lesson of the DAO attack… The DAO attack exposed flaws in smart contracts on Ethereum which should act as a reminder that nascent code is susceptible to bugs before it is truly tire-kicked...
...There are many effects: a lot of them we don’t even realise and a lot that we cannot decide whether they are good or bad,” says Teru Kohara, a Yokohama student....
...While it can be hard when it is quiet, she never tires of the “spectacular” Tower Bridge. Though she feels like a spectator going past Canary Wharf and luxury flats....
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