JETRO RELEASES SURVEY REPORT ON EXPECTATION OF BUSINESS ACTIVITIES FOR FISCAL 2021

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• JETRO releases survey report on the expectation of business activities for fiscal 2021.
• Around 80 percent of overseas affiliates of Japanese companies expect business to return normal in 2021.
• From the survey, around 30.9...

JAPAN SEEKS TO PROMOTE INVESTMENT IN MOZAMBIQUE; SAYS TOSHIMITSU MOTEGI

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• Japan seeks to promote investment in Mozambique; says Tohimitsu Motegi.
• The Southeastern African country is said to be rich in natural gas and coal.
• Motegi in a visit to Mozambique pitched the concept of a free and open I...

JAPANESE COMPANIES INTRODUCING EARLY RETIREMENT GREW IN FISCAL 2020

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• Japanese companies introducing early retirement grew in fiscal 2020.
• An independent survey was conducted by a research firm to study the above.
• Early retirement was offered by 72 listed companies as of Oct.29.
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JAPANESE COMPANIES’ RETAINED PROFITS HIT A RECORD HIGH IN FISCAL 2019

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• Japanese companies’ retained profits hit a record high in fiscal 2019.
• Retained corporate profits in the year through March rose by 2.6 percent.
• Pretax profits of domestic companies plummeted by 14.9 percent.
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US-CHINA TENSION LEADS JAPANESE COMPANIES TO SHIFT BUSINESS TO ASEAN

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• US-China tension leads Japanese companies to shift business to ASEAN.
• Japan External Trade Organization conducted a survey to check the impact of the above.
• The survey was conducted between November and December of last y...

Japanese companies intend to translate oil palm waste into energy

2 Japanese companies interested in renewable biomass energy, are predicted to invest, in Sabah’s Lahad Datu Palm Oil Industrial Cluster, nearly RM300 million.

It is predicted that one of the two firms will formally sign the deal with Palm Oil Industrial Cluster, on the 3rd of Dece...

Japan and Korea Trade Dispute

The continuously worsening conditions of the trade spat between Japan and Korea are indicating no signs of a solution as the two rounds for resolving the disputes that were initiated by Japanese export curbs failed to reach ground.

Both the neighboring countries held a second round of t...