Internal Controls, Sustainability, and IFRS
With two new sustainability standards in effect for annual reporting as of January 1, 2024, companies may need to reassess their internal controls to ensure they are compliant with disclosure requirements.
Serene Shrines and Sauruses
As a tourist destination for inbound visitors, Fukui Prefecture often gets short shrift, especially compared with more glamorous neighbors such as Kyoto and Ishikawa Prefectures. But this may start to change when the Hokuriku Shinkansen adds Fukui, Tsuruga, Awara Onsen, and Echizen Takefu Stations to its pit stops in March 2024.
Japan Unlocked
Looking to enter the Japan market? Want to improve your existing operations? As part of Kreston Global, the world’s 13th-biggest accounting network and 10th-biggest in Japan, Kreston ProWorks helps companies establish a foothold in Japan.
The Hunt for DX Champions
Despite being a nation renowned for assimilating advanced machinery and technology into everyday life, the reality of Japan’s IT workforce paints a very different picture. But Robert Half Japan is supporting clients undergoing digital transformation and is seeing promising progress.
Ancient Trails, Modern Tales
Many visitors to Japan are familiar with the Tokaido Shinkansen. What they may not know is that the tracks run alongside an ancient route built not for bullet-train carriages but rather palanquins. We take a tour through Kanagawa Prefecture to explore past and present.
Cities on the Hills
While Tokyo has established itself as one of the world’s leading urban centers, it can still improve its cultural magnetism, livability, and attractiveness for overseas businesses. Helping the city rise in the world’s esteem by gradually transforming Tokyo is at the heart of Mori Building’s mission.
Cracking the Code
As digital transformation touches every aspect of how we work and communicate, businesses face ever more complex challenges. The evolution of cybersecurity means that companies must rethink how they hire for this critical task. Robert Half shares how to secure the best cybersecurity talent.
2023 Tax Reform Proposals
On December 16, 2022, the Government of Japan released its 2023 tax reform proposals. The amendments contain changes to the rules related to gifts and inheritance tax. The proposals are usually promulgated into law by the end of March and enter into force on April 1. Here is an overview of what to expect.
Fantastical Fukui
There are many reasons to visit Fukui, a small tadpole-shaped prefecture facing the Sea of Japan. It’s home to a bevy of traditional crafts, magnificent temples, rugged landscapes, and some of Japan’s best freshly caught winter crab and sweet shrimp. All this begs the question: Why isn’t Fukui more well-known? We take you on a visit.
Past Meets Future
The glass panel separating the Enoura Observatory’s gallery from Sagami Bay erupts in an orange glow. It’s the summer solstice and the sun rises in perfect alignment with the long, narrow gallery designed by Japanese contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. The fiery spectacle is just one of the wonders that awaits travelers in Kanagawa Prefecture.
Japan to Foster Global Cooperation at the G7
In May 2023, the G7 Summit will be hosted in Hiroshima against the backdrop of a severe global energy crisis and supply chain disruptions that are stoking the fires of inflation, shaking consumer confidence, and threatening the most economically vulnerable in our society. METI will focus on three key policy areas: trade, climate and energy, and digitalization.
The Toranomon Hills Station Tower: Transforming a Neighborhood
Home to a buzzing community that melds business and art with innovation and tradition, Toranomon is one of Tokyo’s most vibrant and interesting neighborhoods. And later this year, the area will take a bold step with the opening of Toranomon Hills Station Tower.
Investing in Biotech
To help Japan capture a market forecast to grow to up to $4 trillion by 2040, METI has created an $8 billion fund to support biomanufacturing, a field that encompasses technologies which leverage genetic technology to maximize the ability of microorganisms to produce substances.
Perfect Powder
Hakuba Hotel Group (HHG) has been a driving force behind the development of the area over the past 10 years and manages a portfolio of more than 50 premium chalets and apartments situated in prime locations surrounding the Happo-One Resort. ACCJ members get 10 percent off at any HHG property this winter.
Yonezawa Artistry
Legacy and vision. Two words that describe and drive Gentaro Nitta’s Nitta Textile Arts and Michiko Yamakuchi’s Yozando. Both are eminent textile enterprises based in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, and manifest a celebration of the past as the industry looks toward the future.
Supply Chain Woes
Nowadays, it is common to hear and to read in the news that the world is experiencing unprecedented supply chain woes. China lacks coal and paper. The United States has a shortage of toilet paper and toys. And India is low on microchips. Why is this happening? Here are four current issues that negatively impact the world’s supply chains.
Setting the Stage for Green Transformation
If renewable energy production is not doubled by 2030, power outages and energy system disruptions could become everyday affairs. To help the international community rise to what may be this generation’s greatest challenge, and to showcase some of the technologies that will assist the world in meeting it, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) organized Tokyo GX (Green Transformation) Week. The 10-day event ran from September 26 to October 7.
Tax and Trends
Yamada & Partners can help non-Japanese better understand how their assets are taxed and assist them in reducing their tax liability while accurately reporting income and assets.
From Mist to Medals
Just over an hour by train from Shinjuku, the Godo area of Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, lives up to its name, which means “gate of the gods.” The mists rising from nearby Sagami Bay often shroud the peak in mysterious clouds, leading to the nickname Afuri-yama (Mount Rainfall). And tucked away in the lush foothills is Kikkawa Jozo, a century-old sake brewery that is gaining international acclaim.
Plants and Trees
A stone monument, two or three feet tall, with a simple inscription stood before me. It read: “plants and trees.” Somokuto, as they are known in Japanese, are monuments concentrated mainly in Okitama, a region in southern Yamagata Prefecture in Tohoku, the northern part of Japan’s main island of Honshu. Adam Fulford shares more.