Japan

The stores are expanding delivery services as more consumers work remotely.

The company is expecting a delay in recovery to persist in Q4.

It is the first of such app to offer bilingual customer service.

They closed stores in the Tokyo metro area from 8 April to 29 May to prevent infection.

Automobiles saw the sharpest drop in sales at 17.2%.

Shimamura is best placed to enjoy this trend.

It might bring agricultural producer associations as minority stakeholders.

Ecommerce channels are not enough to buoy sales.

Ecommerce channels are not enough to buoy sales.

Vending machines in busy locations are the hardest hit.

Two in five said that access to training and digital development will have the most impact on productivity.

Global modern logistics facilities and technology-led solutions provider GLP continues its capital recycling strategy with the sale of eight Japan properties to GLP J-REIT for JP¥84.9 billion (US$765 million).

Paidy Inc, an instantly-issued post-pay credit provider, has recently announced an investment from financial services corporation Visa as part of the company’s Series C funding. Paidy is cited to be Japan’s first instantly-issued post-pay credit service for e-commerce consumers. In addition, the two companies are partnering on new digital payment experiences that will give Japanese consumers more options when buying online and in-store.

 

 

Cloud service provider Akamai Technologies and Japanese financial services company MUFG announced plans to offer a new blockchain-based online payment network enabling next-generation payment transaction scale and responsiveness.