Japanese Customer News May 16th 2015

Japanese Customer News May 16th 2015

Japanese Customer News May 16th 2015





● “Japanese animation house, Studio Ghibli celebrates its 30th anniversary this year (2015)”

Source: Celebrating Japanese animation by Michael Bodey, The Australian, Wednesday 13th May, 2015, page 28.



● “Former decathlon champion So Takei (lifted) 700 million yen or (AUD$7.2 million) in cash, weighing about 70kg to promote the “Dream Jumbo Lottery” (in Tokyo)”

Source: MX Newspaper, Melbourne, Australia, Photo Caption, Thursday May 14th, 2015, page 9.



● “China, Japan and South Korea, home to more than $1.5 billion people, account for over 62 per cent of Australia’s exports”

Source: FTA ‘dashboard’ drives trade, by Rick Wallace, The Australian Newspaper, Tuesday 12th, May 2015, page 21.



● “A study last year by HSBC found that…each FTA signed by Australia is used only by 19 per cent of Australian exporters, with the complexity of the agreements cited as a problem”



Source: FTA ‘dashboard’ drives trade, by Rick Wallace, The Australian Newspaper, Tuesday 12th, May 2015, page 21.




● “Sharp plans to cut at least 3500 employees through a voluntary retirement program…Sharp will turn its…panel operation, which makes liquid crystal displays for smartphones…a stand-alone in-house company. Analysts say this could be the first step toward a spin-off”

Source: 3500 to lose jobs as Sharp announces $2.1 billion bail out strategy by Takashi Mochizuki and Megumi Fujikawa, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian Newspaper, Friday May 15th, 2015 page 24.



● “The worst is yet to come for Sharp because no one can imagine how it will survive” Akie Iriyama, an associate professor at Waseda Business School



Source: 3500 to lose jobs as Sharp announces $2.1 billion bail out strategy by Takashi Mochizuki and Megumi Fujikawa, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian Newspaper, Friday May 15th, 2015 page 24.



● “Japanese ..Daikyo aims to build a larger prescence in Australia after forging an alliance with…residential builder Devine… The first project…is the $82 million Mode apartments in Brisbane’s Newstead…under the joint venture…Devine will provide day to day operational management…while its construction arm will build the tower”


Source: Daikyo, Devine forge alliance, by Greg Brown, Prime Space, The Australian Newspaper, Friday May 15th, 2015, page 26.


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