Japan

Seven & I’s New Chief Pledges Fix For Retailer In A Hundred Days

The new head of Seven & i Holdings Co. is giving himself and his new management team about three months to come up with a plan to sort out the spra...

Seven & i Shareholders Approve Isaka As Chief To Lead Growth

Seven & i Holdings Co. will focus on revamping the world’s largest convenience store operator and boost value for shareholders, said new pres...

Robots Replacing Japan Farmers Seen Preserving Food Security

As the average age of farmers globally creeps higher and retirement looms, Japan has a solution: robots and driver-less tractors. The Group-of-Seven agr...

Japanese Whiskey At $920 A Bottle Driving Rice Farmers To Drink

Japan’s burgeoning whisky business is driving rice farmer Hiroshi Tsubouchi to hit the booze. With domestic rice consumption sliding, Tsubouchi, 3...

Megabrew's Beer Nerds Might Find Japan Is A Happier Home: Gadfly

Asahi's agreement to buy some of SABMiller's premium beer brands may be small, but it's emblematic of how big mergers can tear up the carefully laid strate...

Seven & I Appoints Loeb's Candidate Isaka As Group President

Seven & i Holdings Co. has appointed the head of its Seven-Eleven Japan Co. convenience store unit Ryuichi Isaka as its president, capping a tumult...

Asahi’s Profit Forecast Below Estimates Amid Slowing Economy

Asahi Group Holdings, the Japanese brewer of Super Dry, forecast 2016 profit that trails analyst estimates as a slowing economy weighs on domestic sales....

Asahi Mulls Deal for U.S. Beverage Maker for Growth Abroad

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. said it’s considering buying soft drinks company Talking Rain in what would be the first acquisition in the U.S. beverage m...