Press Review: January 2015

In this section you will find a digest of some of the most interesting Japan-related articles which we have found on the internet in the last month. These online articles which were published on English-language Japanese news sites over the past month cover a wide variety of business-related topics. These articles are also being tweeted via the EU-Japan Centre's official twitter account. Please follow us on twitter to receive regular updates!

Press Review for January:

• Japan to ease rules for foreigners launching businesses
• New strap-on robotic devices offer lift to aged workers, undermanned companies
• Foreign luxury brands showing renewed interest in Tokyo
• Olympic village to be 1st ‘hydrogen town’
• The CHANGING WORKPLACE / Women leaping over the gender barrier
• Tokyo Gas plans 1st offshore gas pipeline
• The Changing Workplace / Companies turn to veteran workers
• The Changing Workplace / Elderly workforce changing society
• Businesses show positive stance on raising worker pay
• Struggling to Deliver
• French-made robot lands gig at nation's largest bank helping customers
• Brewers to shift battle to ‘real’ beer in 2015
• Japan in Depth / Major firms bringing production home because of weaker yen
• Tie-ups result in medical innovations
• Nation to promote big data experts