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The Canadian - Autumn 2015. Vol 15. Issue 02. Business Solutions: Manpower Boost - Big changes coming to Japanese worker dispatch regime By Colin Page, professor at Doshisha Law School in Kyoto and a director for the Manpower Group Japan Co. Ltd.,one of the oldest foreign-capitalized firms in Japan...

The Canadian - Autumn 2015. Vol 15. Issue 02. Energy Insights: Gas Economics - B.C. Coastal LNG Bridging Canada and Japan Industry insights brought to you by Yuya Kihara and Kentaro Matsushita, both relationship managers at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (Canada). Following the devastating March...

The Canadian - Autumn 2015. Vol 15. Issue 02.   Brandspotting - CozyPuffyCool Tokyo based writer and journalist, Vivian Morelli, comments on Japanese retailers Muji and Uniqlo, as well as Canadian outdoor clothing brands, Canada Goose and Arc'teryx in the Summer issue of our quarterly magazine, The...

The Canadian - Autumn 2015. Vol 15. Issue 02.   The Output Gap - Propping Up Japan's Economy is a True Test of 'Abenomics' Special report by Fung Siu and Chris Clague, from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Fung Siu is the EU's regional editor for Asia and Chris Clague is a senior consultant in the...

The Canadian - Summer 2015. Vol 15. Issue 01. Cover Story CCCJ Chairman, Wilf Wakely was 15 years old when he made his way to Japan with five other friends aboard a 4,000 tonne Showa shipping line freighter. “Back then, Japan looked like a story book,” Wakely recalls. “It was enchanting, and it...

The Canadian - Summer 2015. Vol 15. Issue 01. Asia Pacific View Canadians should pay attention to Japan's new defence relationship with the U.S., writes Joseph Caron, former Ambassador of Canada to Japan, in the 2015 Summer Issue of The Canadian. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's three-day visit...

"What Do Canadians Think About the TPP?" - July 28, 2015 Blog by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Advocacy According to Nathan Allen and Amnit Litt, Program Manager and Junior Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, there are more Canadians in favor of the Trans-Pacific...

Mathyos Energy Update Jeffrey Sachs in Tokyo / Energy Sustainabiilty Tom O'Sullivan, Director, Mathyos Energy *** We were fortunate enough to spend an hour yesterday with Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University who was visiting Japan for a two day UN sponsored conference on Sustainable...

Mathyos Energy Update Iran & North East Asia/Japan: Future Energy Engagement Tom O'Sullivan, Director, Mathyos Energy *** After a 35 year stand-off and following 22 months of intense negotiations the US and P5+1 announced a final nuclear agreement (JCPOA) with Iran last Tuesday. China was the only...

Mathyos Energy Update Black Wednesday A Brighter Thursday? Tom O'Sullivan, Director, Mathyos Energy *** Energy market prices continue to be battered with other asset classes over the last several days. WTI is down $5 month-to-date and Brent is trading $9 below its 2015 Y-T-D peak. One of the US...

The Canadian - Summer 2015. Vol 15. Issue 01. Advocacy Japan should capitalize on its technological brand strength in Canada, comments Trevor Kennedy, Junior Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and M.A. Candidate in Asia Pacific policy studies at the University of British...

The Canadian - Summer 2015. Vol 15. Issue 01.   Brandspotting Tokyo based writer and journalist, Vivian Morelli, comments on Japanese retailers Muji and Uniqlo, as well as Canadian outdoor clothing brands, Canada Goose and Arc'teryx in the Summer issue of our quarterly magazine, The Canadian.  Fast...