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Narita said Japan is facing “a triple whammy of negative demand shock,” on top of the outbreak, the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics until next year, a recent tax raise and trade tensions between the U.S. and China, Japan’s main trading partners. … [Read more...] about Bank of Japan helps fund small businesses fighting pandemic

"A mandatory 30-minute limit will affect the effectiveness of the massage treatment and may even cause injury to the client because the soft tissue is not properly warmed up or conditioned," Jensen said in a letter this week to the state Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, which handles the business regulations. "It is for this reason that hundreds of massage therapy clinics in Illinois, employers to thousands of massage therapists, offer services with minimum duration of 50 minutes and as long as two hours. Most establishments do not even have 30-minute sessions on their menu." … [Read more...] about Elmhurst Massage Business Protests Some Rules

"If you're a business owner and you've made money over the years and it's going to take much of that money to stay open, you better be sure that you're going to have the market, right?" Gothreaux said. "And so, I understand that some people may choose to call it quits or maybe retire while they're ahead. That's happening because it happens every time the economy takes a hit, whether it's 1986 or whether it's 2015." … [Read more...] about Lafayette businesses that permanently closed during coronavirus pandemic; what we know

We're working on a number of initiatives to further support local businesses in the communities we cover. We'll be updating all of our readers on these efforts in the coming days. Thanks for reading the Patch, and for supporting local businesses in your town. … [Read more...] about Evanston Businesses: Open Or Closed? Let Your Customers Know

Tokyo (VNA) - Vietnam is a potential and emerging market, with low risks, good economy and stable politics, Eto Shinji, General Manager of Japanese building product distributor JUTEC Corporation’s Overseas Business Department, has said. “That's why we decided to go there. That was in 2015,” he noted in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency’s correspondent in Tokyo recently. According to him, at first, his company tried to sell Japanese building materials in the Vietnamese market. But unfortunately, the way of building houses in Vietnam is totally different from Japan’s one, and thus, building materials used in Vietnam are totally different from those used in Japan. “We had tried to sell our products to those who have special technical knowledge of Japan, but it was not easy. As a result, we changed our mindset to adapt to the market and then, decided to enter its real estate market because we thought that there is a close link between … [Read more...] about Vietnam hailed for good economy, stable politics: Japanese business executive