TURNING 100 THIS YEAR !!

Japanese companies are turning 100 in 2017

Over 1,000 Japanese organizations will reach the 100th anniversary of their founding in 2017. This great event includes many popular companies among them The precision equipment maker Nikon Corp, Toto Ltd and Morinaga Milk Industry Co.

Nikon is a Japanese international company located in Tokyo, Japan. It majors in optics and imaging products. As for ToTo Ltd it’s the world’s largest toilet producer that is created in Kitakyushu, Japan. One of the organization’s inventions is the wash let. And finally the Morinaga Milk Industry Co is a company based in Tokyo, Japan that is found on September 1, 1917. This company mainly produces milk products and sweets. In 1917, a huge crop of firms, mainly manufacturers, established in Japan to take advantage of growing exports on the back of World War I.

A Nikon spokesman said his company has survived the past century because it has “globally promoted a wide range of products and services based on its high-quality technologies mainly in the optical and precision sectors.”

Japan sets up more than 100,000 companies each year.

“It’s interesting to imagine how many newly established companies will still be around a hundred years from now,” a Tokyo Shoko Research official said.

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Hell strikes japan once again!

Mahra al marzooqi

Economic Consultant

Japan has encountered more than one earthquake throughout many years. However, the earthquake that occurred in 2011 was the most tragic out of all. It has been marked down in history that 2011 was Japan’s worst nightmare, the Japanese are still recovering from the damages it has caused to this day.

The disaster was not only a shock to Japan but also to many other countries around the world due to the fact that very few countries predicted that japan would encounter such a large earthquake and tsunami.

The earthquake struck on March 11, which was on a Friday at 2:46 p.m local time, and the shaking lasted for about six minutes. Luckily for Japanese residents they did have an early warning, which was a minute before the earthquake struck. This early warning actually did help prevent many deaths although it was at the last second. People received alarms on their cellphones and buildings received warning systems.

The quantity of affirmed passings is 15,891. Most people died by drowning. More than 2,500 individuals are still reported missing. Not exactly an hour after the tremor, the first of numerous tidal wave waves hit Japan's coastline. The torrent waves kept running up statures

Less than an hour after the earthquake, the first of many tsunami waves hit Japan's coastline. The tsunami that occurred was massive and destroyed the walls that were built to protect Japan from any tsunamis.

Surprisingly the tsunami that encountered Japan affected many other countries as well, such as Alaska, Hawaii and Chile. More than 5,000 aftershocks hit Japan in the year after the earthquake, the largest a magnitude 7.9.

Days after the horrific earthquake Japan’s prime minister Naoto Kan has called the disaster the nation’s worst crisis since World War 2.

Kyoko Ogawa was one of the many Japanese survivors. "I was in shock because I realized that all that was precious to me was gone," she says, six months on from that terrible day. "I didn't know what to do from then on. I became tormented."