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Japanese restaurant operator AP Co is heading to Hawaii, planning to open its first outlets in January. AP owns more than 200 restaurants in Japan, Singapore and California and plans to take its Tsukada Nojo and Sushi Maru brands to Waikiki, in the heart of…
A Japanese airport is offering simulated around-the-world “jet” trips with a Hello Kitty flight attendant. Travel retail group Enleysha Co has opened the Hello Kitty’s Happy Flight amusement outlet along the connecting path on the third floor of the New…
Japanese grocery and mall giant Aeon is expanding its Asian footprint yet further, acquiring a 14-store supermarket chain in Myanmar. The Aeon Myanmar operation will be run by a new company, Aeon Orange, which has acquired the supermarket chain from…
Toyota Motor Corp. and Daihatsu Motor Co. jointly launched two different cars in Indonesia on Tuesday, a day after Toyota acquired all of Daihatsu’s shares. “It is a new relationship between Daihatsu and Toyota,” Daihatsu President Masanori Mitsui said during…
Three years after the Japanese luxury department store chain announced plans to enter Saigon, Takashimaya Vietnam opened its doors at the weekend. As the anchor tenant of downtown Ho Chi Minh City’s Saigon Center, Takashimaya takes up a whole five floors…
JCB , the only international payments brand based in Japan, is pleased to announce that it will launch a new JCB global website on August 3 2016. The website has a portal function to link to a wide range of other JCB websites in many countries/territories,…
Japan’s NTT DoCoMo grew its net profit for the June quarter by 38.1% year-on-year as the operator made progress adapting to an evolving business environment. The operator reported a net income for its fiscal first quarter of 206.9 billion yen ($2.01 billion),…
Japan’s SoftBank lifted its net profit for the June quarter by 19.1% year-on-year to 254.16 billion yen ($2.42 billion), largely as a result of solid growth from the company’s domestic telecoms business. Domestic telecoms service revenue grew 5.4% to 761.8…
A massive Starbucks Asia store roll-out has boosted the global coffee company’s third quarter results. Across China and the Asia-Pacific region, Starbucks opened 888 new stores in the first nine months of the current financial year. That helped lift revenues…
Involving a celebrity with the Pokemon Go obsession may seem like a golden marketing opportunity, but for one Hong Kong shopping mall the combination has been a screw-up. With the game not yet officially available in Hong Kong, actress Chrissie Chau claimed…
Revenue rose but profit fell for Uniqlo parent The Fast Retailing Group for the first nine months of its latest fiscal year, from September 1 last year to May 31. Consolidated revenue for the group reached ¥1.4346 trillion (US$215 billion), a rise of 6.4 per…
Japan’s KDDI has selected Gemalto to provide the platform to enable secure connectivity for connected cars and IoT applications worldwide. Gemalto will provide its LinqUs On-Demand Connectivity (ODC) subscription management solution and embedded SIMs (eSIMs)…
NEC in Japan and NEC Technologies India have established the “OSS Technology Center,” an organization specializing in technical support related to the use of open source software (OSS). The new organization began operations July 1, with approximately 50 staff…
The Batam city government said it will continue cooperation, which began last year, with the Japanese city of Yokohama. Batam city mayor Muhammad Rudi said the cooperation would be continued as the cooperation has been a success thanks to assistance from the…
Fujitsu and Oracle are forming a new alliance to deliver cloud services to customers in Japan and their international subsidiaries. Under the alliance, Oracle’s Cloud Application and Platform services – such as Oracle Database Cloud Service and Oracle Human…
Japanese lifestyle brand Muji US will take its message of minimalism to the suburbs when it opens in New Jersey’s largest mall, Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, next month. Its 8600 sqft (798 sqm) store, on the lower level of the mall, will be the…
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