HIgh Tech Industry Challenges
” This is a critical time for Japan’s high-tech industry, and it’s only through leveraging core strengths to facilitate differentiation and implementing a strategy that harnesses group-level synergies, that the industry will be able to reinvent itself at speed and at scale to once more achieve global preeminence. ” (Accenture)
For more details, check: http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-highlights-communications-japanese-consumer-electronics.aspx?c=glb_acnemalert_10001787&n=emc_0215&emc=20757712:emc-031215
Leave a comment | tags: GBMC, Japan, Japanese consumer electronics, Japanese Electronics, Japanese Electronics giants, Japanese electronics industry, Japanese High Tech Industry | posted in Business, Japan, software, Technology
Hitachi’s trains (source: Hitachi.com)
Hitachi Ltd’s has agreed to buy the rail signaling business of Italy’s Finmeccanica SpA in its largest overseas purchase ever. It will boost the company’s European manufacturing base, following its previous rail business expansion in the UK.
Read: “Hitachi trains push into Europe to challenge Siemens, Alstom”
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/business/corporate-business/hitachi-trains-push-into-europe-to-challenge-siemens-alstom/#.VPMeqOk3PIU
Read: “Hitachi agrees to buy two Finmeccanica rail businesses”
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/business/corporate-business/hitachi-nears-%c2%a5250-billion-purchase-of-italys-finmeccanica-rail/#.VPMeNOk3PIU
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” Google is aiming to get its driverless cars on the streets by 2020. Whether it’s able to do so is unclear. It’s been working on plans for an autonomous vehicle for years, but questions remain about whether government regulators will allow the vehicles or if consumers will pay for them. ” (Linked In Pulse)
The question is: As with any machine, it might be a plus but there should always be a switch button to “Manual Human Mode”.
Read more from: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/googles-car-chief-my-son-better-driving-45-years-chip-cutter
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Panasonic Corp completed the biggest bond sale to Japan’s institutional investors since 2011 after the electronics maker forecast its best profit in seven years. PHOTO: REUTERS
Great News: PANASONIC is back and making profits, after heavy restructuration and diversification into non-Consumer Goods Business! Congratulations!
Read more from:
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/technology/panasonic-comeback-seen-in-biggest-sale-to-japans-institutional-investors-since-2011
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Japanese Electronics and Audio-Video Industries
Sony Corporation’s new multiyear business plan includes separating its audio and video segment into a wholly owned subsidiary later this year. The company does not rule out the potential sale of those struggling units as part of restructuring at the Tokyo-based electronics and entertainment group. Sony has already sold off its personal computer business under the restructuring.
Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/business/corporate-business/sony-chief-denies-spinoffs-mean-immediate-withdrawal/#.VPMVe-k3PIV
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Train in Kyushu (image source: JR Kyushu)
The Japanese government has recently decided to put Kyushu Railway Co. under full private ownership in fiscal 2016. It has decided to pursue full privatization because JR Kyushu has achieved good business results in the fields of real estate and hotels, according to officials. JR Kyushu is one of seven railway operators established after the breakup of Japanese National Railways, or JNR, in April 1987.
Time to invest maybe?
Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/27/business/corporate-business/jr-kyushu-to-be-fully-privatized-in-fiscal-2016/#.VPLxQek3PIU
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Reporting on the UK Royal Visit to Japan:
1) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and the duke try their hand at juggling as they visit Smile Kid’s Park in Koriyama. Check: http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/the-prince-the-rising-sun-and-the-dragon/ss-BBi8kEP#image=4
2) ウィリアム王子スピーチ Prince William’s speech “Innovation is GREAT” ～英国と創る未来～ 2015年2月27日
Check: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MHAP0dpok
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TPP (image source: cas.go.jp)
A senior official of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Friday she expects the 12 countries negotiating a Pacific free trade initiative (the U.S.-led TPP) to strike a deal before June, as the United States and Japan seem to be reaching a bilateral deal over Tokyo’s exceptional tariffs on five agricultural products — rice, beef and pork, wheat, dairy products and sugar.
Would this impact on/speed up talks for a EU-Japan FTA/EPA/EIA agreement?
Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/28/business/economy-business/u-s-business-leader-envisions-tpp-deal-before-june/#.VPLqauk3PIU
Leave a comment | tags: EU Trade with Japan, EU-Japan EIA, EU-Japan EPA, EU-Japan FTA, GBMC, TPP, US Trade with Japan, US-Japan TPP | posted in Business, EU, Invest, Japan
Belgium (source: Wikimedia commons)
“Belgium at a glance” is a digital brochure providing a light overview of what our country is all about. The brochure is richly illustrated with photos, making it highly accessible to anyone who wants to find out more about Belgium. The brochure is available in 8 languages.
Download: Belgium_At_A_Glance_EN_LowRes_tcm312-250285
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