from yesterday's Nikkei

大卒採用来春１４％増　電機・鉄鋼で旺盛　理工系がけん引　本社調査

The Nikkei Shimbun compiled Saturday,on March 28,the survey on companies' plans of employment of university graduates in the spring of 2016, as the first-stage compilation.
According to the results, the number of planned employment is up 14.2 % campared with estimated figure in the spring of 2015. This is the fifth consecutive two-digit year-on-year increase.
Among what are seen in the survey results is the fact that science students wil likely get a more favorable treatment than arts students.
Thanks to such factors as good business performances and some domestic production recovery, employment mind is strong in the manufacturing industries of electric machinery and iron and steel. Even in the non-manufacturing industries, the same is the case, in some sectors like retail.
As starting time of the year when copmanies are allowed to start to hire would-be-graduate students will become later in the year than before, competition for hiring good human resources will become more fierce among companies. Nevertheless, this showing will be a favorite factor for making the economy more strong and bullish, along with this spring's pay hike results in the shunto spring labor-management negotiations.

from today's Nikkei

ミャンマーで食品合弁　三菱商事　製造から物流まで

According to a source, Mitsubishi Corporation will launch on a food business in Myanmar.
Specifically,it will have set up a joint venture with local companies there by May this year,and will invest its money up to a 30 percent stake of the joint venture's capital.Such background established,the newly set-up venture will go gorward with manufacturing processed foods and building a logistics network, with as much as 25 billion yen invested over the next three years. This is the firs thime that a Japanese firm will participate in major businesses which are now operated by Manmar firms. As the Myanmar government aims to pump up the country's econmy by introducing foreign funds, the deal has a possibility that gives a good example for business tie-ups to Japanese and Myanmar candidates.