Annual Report 2012 Year ended March 31, 2012 Our founder, Dr. Minoru Shirota, successfully strengthened and cultivated Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota while working in a microbiology laboratory at Kyoto Imperial University School of Medicine (now Kyoto University). In 1935, he began sales of a fermented milk drink under the brand name Yakult. Contents 01 02 04 06 10 14 16 22 24 26 29 30 56 57 The Sources of Yakult’s Strength Yakult Consumption around the World / Financial Highlights
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estate (the Rockefeller Center in New York). The stock market was booming, the Nikkei index hitting an all-time high of 38,957 in December 1989, an increase of more than 600 percent since 1980. Property prices had risen so much that one square mile of Tokyo was said to be worth more than the entire United States. Books were written about the Japanese threat to American dominance. Management theorists praised Japanese companies for their strategic savvy and management excellence. Economists were predicting
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travel market by rectifying some of the structural challenges to growth in what is the most regulated market in the region. In addition to demographic changes in the market, an increase in international slots at the traditionally capacity-challenged Tokyo-area airports and the construction of LCCTs in the high-cost market are aiding the development of LCCs. Terminal and slot expansions are further facilitating growth across all
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CSR REPORT ANALYSIS Student name Institution Date Introduction A business report is meant to put across information useful to a particular business. Actually, a business reports lets the stake holders know the position that their investment stands. These reports also provide problems that have been faced by the business and also the strategic plans that are supposed help solve the problems in future. The following report is basically evaluating two companies’ annual reports. This report
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วันที่ 20 ธันวาคม 2554 โดย : กรุงเทพธุรกิจออนไลน์ แกะรอยแผนซุกขาดทุน20ปี “โอลิมปัส” สร้างความตื่นตะลึงให้กับแวดวงธุรกิจโลกไม่น้อย เมื่อปรากฏข่าวฉาวของ “โอลิมปัส” บริษัทญี่ปุ่นยักษ์ใหญ่ที่ถูกแฉพฤติกรรมฉ้อโกง เพื่อปกปิดตัวเลขขาดทุนที่ดำเนินมายาวนานร่วม 20 ปี ว่ากันว่า มูลค่าการฉ้อโกงทางบัญชีที่สร้างขึ้นมาตบตาภาวะขาดทุนจากการลงทุนหลักทรัพย์ของบริษัทแห่งนี้อยู่ที่ราว 1.7 พันล้านดอลลาร์ พฤติกรรมฉาวของโอลิมปัสแดงขึ้นมา เพราะนายไมเคิล วู้ดฟอร์ด หัวหน้าคณะเจ้าหน้าที่บริหาร (ซีอีโอ )ชาวอังกฤษของโอลิมปัส
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Topic: The biggest scams in the banking history Course: Banking Students: Nino Vepkhvadze, Gohar Trchunyan, Giorgi Menteshashvili & Giorgi Paksashvili Date: 04.06.2012 A fraud, by definition, is the act of deliberate deception of people to secure an unlawful gain. These are mainly for the purpose of defrauding money as well as prestige rather than immediate financial gain. A study by BBC has revealed that the average woman lies twice a day while a man tells three lies a day. However, the
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Keiretsu Translated literally, it means headless combine Keiretsu is a Japanese word which, translated literally, means headless combine. It is the name given to a form of corporate structure in which a number of organisations link together, usually by taking small stakes in each other and usually as a result of having a close business relationship, often as suppliers to each other. The structure, frequently likened to a spider's web, was much admired in the 1990s as a way to defuse the traditionally
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estate (the Rockefeller Center in New York). The stock market was booming, the Nikkei index hitting an all-time high of 38,957 in December 1989, an increase of more than 600 percent since 1980. Property prices had risen so much that one square mile of Tokyo was said to be worth more than the entire United States. Books were written about the Japanese threat to American dominance. Management theorists praised Japanese companies for their strategic savvy and management excellence. Economists were predicting
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SPRINT, will get you to an operator. TRANSPORTATION On the Tokyo part of trip, will we primarily take three companies for transportation. They are Toei (都営), Tokyo Metro (東京メトロ) and Japan Railways (JR). Roppongi station is known as H04 (H for Hibiya) or E23 (E for Toei Oedo). These are the two lines that you can take to get to other destinations in Tokyo. Toei (都営) This is the transportation system that is owned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Toei owns the Arakawa line and also 4
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Typhoon Myth It was a beautiful crisp morning in Tokyo, Japan. The sun shining on the houses of Japan. The flowers dancing in the wind like Naruto and Goku were best friends. Naruto was strong and loved training. Goku was intelligent and loved sports. Every day they would pray to the gods to be like them. There was one gods that they did not want to be. The god that had been banned from the Kamisama Yama. He was Oni. He wanted to take the souls of anyone that wanted to be a god, the Oni was
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