TOKYO & MANILA – (ACN Newswire) – Robinsons Bank Corporation (Robinsons Bank), a fast growing bank under JG Summit Holdings, Inc., one of the biggest conglomerates in the Philippines, and…
Bangkok and Tokyo – (ACN Newswire) – Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), a leader of banking business in Thailand, and JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB…
LaSalle Investment Management, one of the world’s leading real estate investment managers, has acquired, on behalf of a consortium of Japanese investors, Ocean Gate Minato Mirai, a 14-storey large-scale office…
Softbank Vision Fund is leading a group of investors in backing the $865-million Series D funding in high-tech construction startup Katerra, the two-year-old Silicon Valley firm said in a press…
JAPAN – Eleven Japanese companies have signed a memorandum of understanding on collaboration toward the large-scale construction of hydrogen stations for fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). The companies – Toyota Motor…
Nippon Life Insurance Company, Japan’s largest life insurer by revenue, today announced that it has signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The PRI, which was signed by…
Tsukuba, Japan — Researchers in India and Japan have developed an improved method for using graphene-based transistors to detect disease-causing genes. Graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) can detect harmful genes through…
JAPAN – Yamaha Corporation (Yamaha) is planning to establish a manufacturing subsidiary in Indonesia, PT. Yamaha Musical Products Asia (YMPA), and construct a new factory in that country. Yamaha’s board…
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corp is reportedly selling its stake in a medical equipment leasing firm Toshiba Medical Finance Co to Canon Inc for JPY31.4 billion (US$277 million). The announcement…
Toshiba, the Japanese multinational conglomerate, is eyeing to generate at least JPY1 trillion (USD8.8 billion) from the sale of its stake in its memory chip business, sources revealed. The report…
TOKYO — Tokyo-based Trillium Inc, a leading contender in the global race to close the cyber-security gap that threatens to stop self-driving cars in their tracks, today announced the successful…
TOKYO — Nikko Asset Management has been recognised for excellence by Hong-Kong based Asia Asset Management. The firm won the Best of the Best Country Award for Japan in three…
Japanese Ambassador Kazuhide Ishikawa turned over Appari and Guian Radar Stations to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) for the Japan-funded Improvement Project of the Meteorological Radar…
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently committed to the Philippines loan funds amounting to 1-trillion-yen or P440-billion in financing and investment. The large influx of financial aid has prompted many…
JAPAN – Japan Tobacco Inc (TSE:2914) released preliminary cigarette sales report that showed domestic cigarette sales in Japan last year dropped 2.8% to 106.2 billion cigarettes. For the month of…
台湾南部の高雄市で2017年10月1日から1カ月間にわたり、環境負荷の少ない交通行動の導入を目指す「エコモビリティ・ワールドフェスティバル2017」が開催されます。 国際的な持続可能性をめざす自治体協議会「イクレイ」に所属する組織「エコモビリティアライアンス」と高雄市が共催するもので、化石燃料を使う個人乗用車の使用減少などをはかることが目的です。 会場となる人気スポットの哈瑪星では期間中、高雄メトロやライトレールを含む公共交通機関、自転車などを利用したロハスなエコライフを体験していただけます。交通手段や気候変動に関心を持つ各国の代表と専門家によるエコ交通の実践方法も紹介され、持続可能な交通への取り組みを通じて、温室効果ガスの排出を削減し、気候変動の緩和に努めます。 高雄市では近年、持続可能な都市形態に転換するため、メトロ（MRT）やライトレール、インテリジェントバス停の整備など、人と環境にやさしいエコ交通の推進に取り組んでまいりました。 市内における自転車シェアリングサービスのサイクルポートは計159箇所、自転車専用道は全長755キロメートルに達します。今年6月には台湾初のライトレールの運行が始まり、持続可能な輸送手段の導入が着々と進んでいます。 持続可能性と環境保全の追求において、世界と歩調を合わせていくという強い決意を持つ高雄市。エコフレンドリーな交通手段の推進によって、誰もが暮らしやすいエコ都市になることを願っています。 – BusinessNewsAsia.com
JAPAN – Researches at the University of Tokyo have pioneered the use of MPC polymers to modify the surfaces of nanoparticles, producing images of the inside of cells using the…
JAPAN – Crab and shrimp shells have potential to enhance bone generation, wound healing and targeted drug delivery, according a review of the latest research. Combined with sugar obtained from…
Toyota Motor Corporation will start selling its fuel cell buses (FC buses) under the Toyota brand from early 2017, with plans to introduce over 100 of these buses mainly in…
Confidential data between multiple organizations can now be safely and securely handled after through the blockchain-based security technologies developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. In…
