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Half of the Elderly, Not Taking Advice from Financial Institutions and Making Decisions On Their Own
From the latest results of the Nikkei Research’s Japan Financial Institution Customer Ratings METER®, we analyzed the consumers’ intentions toward investment products, life insurances, non...
Brand
Infrastructure-like Brands Succeed in the Time of Pandemic -- Brand’s Strategy Survey 2021
Nikkei Research Inc. released the 2021 edition of its Brand’s Strategy Survey, which measures and analyzes the brand equity of 600 major companies. This year, Apple Japan ranked first in the overall ranking...
Report
Over 70% Welcomes Cannabis for Cosmetics/Food in Thailand
A historical vote took place at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in December 2020 -- cannabis (marijuana) was delisted from drugs which were specified as deadly and have little to no therapeutic purp...
Report
Challenges of Local Management in the Pandemic Era: Difficult motivating and retaining talents -- Japanese companies in Asia
In this article, we would like to introduce the actual situation of labor management at Asian local offices of Japanese companies in this disastrous time. The salary increase rate of local staff in Asia was 4.2% for t...
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Salary year-over-year increase rate stays 2.2%, the lowest since 2015 -- Japanese companies in the U.S.
We saw interesting changes in the latest results from "The Survey of Salaries and Employment Benefits for Local Staff in Japanese Companies", U.S. edition. The average local staff salary increase rate ...