Japan

[ad_1] In a first for the nation, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government passed an ordinance to protect workers from customer harassment — aggressive behavior and unreasonable demands from customers toward staffers — at a metropolitan assembly session held on Friday.The order is to be implemented from April next year, with plans for the metropolitan government to develop more detailed guidelines, but it does not include any criminal punishment.“The main philosophy (of […]

[ad_1] Seven & I Holdings is considering selling a stake in its supermarket unit ahead of a planned listing of the business, two sources said, as the 7-Eleven owner aims to speed up an overhaul after rejecting a takeover from Alimentation Couche-Tard.Neither the timeline of the potential sale nor the size of the stake were immediately clear. Seven & I was considering selling to an investor such as a fund, […]

[ad_1] BRUSSELS – Brussels will stick to plans to impose hefty tariffs on China-made electric vehicles, the EU executive said on Friday, even after the bloc's leading economy Germany rejected them and exposed a rift over its biggest trade row with Beijing in a decade. The proposed duties on Chinese-built EVs of up to 45% would cost carmakers billions of extra dollars to bring cars into the bloc and are […]

[ad_1] Luxembourg – The EU's top court said on Friday some international soccer rules regulating player transfers are contrary to the bloc's laws, in a landmark decision that could shake up the system.The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) was called on to decide a long-running dispute between former French soccer player Lassana Diarra and FIFA over what happens when players unilaterally terminate their contract.In a highly anticipated […]

[ad_1] Japan's three major business lobbies on Friday submitted their economic policy requests to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who took office on Tuesday, calling for facilitating wage increases and ensuring stable energy supplies.The written requests were handed to Ishiba during a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office by Masakazu Tokura of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren; Ken Kobayashi of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and Takeshi Niinami […]

[ad_1] Japan's push to have activist Paul Watson extradited from Greenland is a law-enforcement issue and has nothing to do with whaling, new Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Friday in rare public comments on the case.The co-founder of Sea Shepherd was arrested in Greenland in July on an arrest warrant issued by Japan, which accuses him of damaging its whaling ship and injuring a Japanese crew member in clashes off […]

[ad_1] Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gave his first policy speech to parliament on Friday, omitting some of the most divisive proposals he made during last month’s Liberal Democratic Party presidential campaign and instead prioritizing quickly actionable measures.While he did not touch on proposals to establish a collective security framework in the Indo-Pacific and revise the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement, he elaborated on his long-held ideas about creating a disaster-prevention […]

[ad_1] The Meteorological Agency is ramping up its efforts to raise awareness about "tsunami flags," which are used to alert beachgoers to tsunami warnings.This comes after a significant earthquake in August, which registered a lower 6 on the shindo Japanese seismic intensity scale in the city of Nichinan in Miyazaki Prefecture, where the flags facilitated a smooth evacuation. However, the agency acknowledges that awareness of the flags remains low, presenting […]