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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 4, 2021
Bank of Japan shares' baffling surge comes to a halt
While the BOJ is unusual in being a listed central bank, the stock pays a tiny dividend and holds no voting rights. In fact, the central bank doesn't even hold shareholders' meetings.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 4, 2021
Is print dead? With shift to digital, office-equipment giant Ricoh votes yes
Stock surged in the Japanese firm well known as a maker of copiers, printers and faxes after it announced it would transform to leave paper behind.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 19, 2021
One Fast Retailing share for ¥100,000 sparks concern over Nikkei dominance
Fast Retailing has risen about 80% in the past 12 months and the price per share broke the u00a5100,000 level on Tuesday, making it the only listed company in Japan to trade at such a value.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 19, 2021
Japanese firm with all-male board says sorry for failing on diversity
In December, Cybozu announced it was soliciting applications internally for directors in an attempt to diversify its board.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 17, 2021
The Nikkei is back at 30,000. But it’s a whole different world.
With the index crash in 1990 that followed the deflating of the asset-price bubble, it would take more than three decades for the benchmark to hit a threshold first reached in 1988.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 15, 2021
Need an app? This Japanese startup has a platform for that
The glaring need for creators has fueled investor expectations for local startup Yappli Inc., which designs off-the-shelf apps.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2021
GameStop frenzy is lost in translation for Japan’s day traders
Whatever the reason, Japan's throngs of retail investors seems reluctant to get too involved in the GameStop Corp. trading frenzy that has shaken markets worldwide.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2021
Japan still has a mountain to climb before it can lift emergency
Public health experts had already cast doubt on whether a monthlong measure would be enough — especially given that the first emergency went on for six weeks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 6, 2021
Japan chip sector boosted by report TSMC to build Tokyo facility
The two sides will soon sign a memorandum of understanding and form a 50-50 joint venture for the project, Taiwan media reported.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Dec 11, 2020
U.S. crackdown on Huawei hands Japan a 5G lifeline
With U.S. partners seeking out suppliers from friendlier nations, vendors in the close U.S. ally suddenly seem a lot more attractive to carriers around the world upgrading their networks.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2020
New virus wave forcing experts to adjust strategies
More than half of the country's over 2,000 coronavirus deaths have come from those 80 or older.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2020
Japan's Go To Travel campaign sparks debate on links to COVID-19 spread
National leaders are reluctant to scrap the stimulus, which has been hailed for injecting trillions of yen into the economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2020
‘Selling dog as mutton’: Mobile carriers dip on minister’s rebuke
Shares in some of the country’s largest mobile phone carriers dropped in Tokyo after the communications minister accused the companies of deploying a bait-and-switch tactic in cutting the costs of mobile phone plans.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Nov 18, 2020
Episode 73: Japan's third wave of COVID-19
Gearoid Reidy, a senior editor at Bloomberg, joins us to discuss whether we might see a new state of emergency and the hope provided by the recent news about vaccines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 27, 2020
Canon and Nidec outlooks offer early hints for Japan blue chips
Canon is forecasting operating profit 42% higher than the figure it gave previously, while Nidec has lifted its outlook by 12%.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 21, 2020
Millions of movie-goers defy pandemic for record opening of 'Demon Slayer'
More than 3.4 million people put the risk of virus infection aside to turn up for the opening weekend of 'Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Infinite Train.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 20, 2020
With Buffett's seal of approval, overseas investors revisit Japan stocks
Last week, foreign traders spent u00a51.42 trillion ($13.5 billion) on Japanese stocks — the most in more than 18 months and the fifth-largest amount on record.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2020
Big money and day traders both love Japanese tech darling Mercari
With shares up almost 25% since its last earnings, all eyes will be on its performance in the latest quarter when it announces results Oct. 30.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 13, 2020
Buffett-led share price boom short-lived for most Japan trading firms
The August announcement, among the largest investments ever made by Buffett in Japan, boosted investor interest in the trading companies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2020
As cinemas struggle worldwide, Japan’s movie king Toho nears new high
The firm, which owns theaters and also produces movies, has seen its stock recover 45% from its March low.
Shinjiro Koizumi promises immediate snap election if elected LDP president
Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi declares his candidacy in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
Seven & I pans value of offer as it rejects Canadian takeover bid
Seven & I Holdings, operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, said on Friday it has rejected Alimentation Couche-Tard's takeover bid as not being in the interest of shareholders.
Japan's Prince Hisahito turns 18
Prince Hisahito observes in July narrow leaf cattail that he had planted at the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Japan miffed but reaction muted after shocking twist to U.S. Steel deal
Nippon Steel's proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel is opposed by politicians across the political spectrum, including both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
Japan’s second city can finally make Tokyo jealous
Osaka is set to open Grand Green Osaka in the city’s Umekita area. It is a sprawling redevelopment that combines a park with mixed-use skyscrapers and is part of a push to rejuvenate the merchant city.
No talking, no eating, no standing: Inside sumo's ring purification ceremony
A sumo referee performs the dohyō matsuri, or ring purification ceremony, in January 2017 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
Demand for Calrose rice rises amid Japanese rice shortage
Shuzo Fukushi, who heads Rice Meister Kojimachi in Tokyo, shows a bag of Calrose mixed with domestic rice at his store on Thursday.
Pasocom Music Club returns to the pure pleasures of the dance floor
Pasocom Music Club’s “Love Flutter” marks an important moment for Japan’s electronic community as project members Aoi Shibata (left) and Masato Nishiyama step into a role other artists once held for them — scene veterans who are inspiring the next generation.
Typhoon-chaser's firsthand account of his pursuit of Shanshan
A washed-up boat on the shore of the city of Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Friday
First lesson of Japan’s akiya gold rush: No such thing as a free house.
An abandoned house in Urayama, Saitama Prefecture. Buying an <i>akiya</i>, which means empty house in Japanese, can be a rewarding experience that yields a unique space and a livable home, competitively priced. Or it could turn out to be a money pit.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
Is extreme weather changing the way Japan shops?
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