Beacon Reports

Looking overseas to solve Japan’s labor shortage

First published by The Japan Times Entrepreneur Misa Matsuzaki likes a good business challenge. The youngest female entrepreneur to...

First published by The Japan Times Six and a half years after unleashing massive monetary easing, the Bank of...

First published by The Japan Times The heavily taxed Swedes reportedly are among the world’s happiest people. Their cheerful...

Japan will host the G20 Summit on the 28th and 29th of June in Osaka. The G20 is a yearly...

The gray-walled silent corridors were ominously foreboding. I had come to visit the man tasked with jump-starting creative innovation at...

One voice stood out amid the cacophony of Slush Tokyo 2019, the annual tech event which now defines Tokyo’s...

Conductor Zubin Mehta once told Robert Ryker that Mehta’s two orchestras, the Montreal Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic,...

First published by The Japan Times Quick test: Two banks “A” and “B” offer interest rates of 2 percent and...

Last year Panasonic Corporation asked Tokyo based Loftwork Inc. to help them build a café in a trendy part of...

First published by The Japan Times Japan’s history of rapid growth, bubble economy, followed by economic slowdown and deflation will...