Tokyo is vying to become an innovation hub for entrepreneurs and investors, challenging Japan's reputation as an environment that fails to nurture entrepreneurship, and a new nonprofit organization is hoping to play a leading role. The recently launched Venture Cafe Tokyo aims to help innovators ...
With trips to Japan being so popular among people from Hong Kong, Tokyo sees the territory as a testing ground for trying out various initiatives and analyzing behavioral patterns as it seeks to attract more foreign tourists. A record 2.2 million Hong Kong residents visited ...
Washington is pulling farther away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, but the new deal signed by the TPP 11 leaves the door open.
By remaining a champion of the TPP free trade deal after the U.S. pulled out, Japan hopes Washington will soften its demands in future trade negotiations.
Despite the growing influx of foreign workers and residents in Japan, their perspectives have been largely ignored ahead of Sunday's Lower House election, according to the director of a nonprofit organization that supports immigrant children and youths in the country. Iki Tanaka, whose youth support ...
Although Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin diverged in their approaches to reining in North Korea's nuclear ambitions at their summit Thursday, it wasn't all bad news for the Japanese leader. For Abe, the urgency of addressing North Korea provided a welcome ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok on Thursday, with a territorial row usually at the center of such talks likely sidelined by tensions over North Korea. Abe hopes to win Moscow's support in strengthening pressure on North Korea ...
One innovative Japanese company has found a way to deliver its customers a taste of the sea, but with imitations it touts to be "almost like the genuine article." Fish paste products, known as surimi, have a long history in Asia and have even seen ...
Japan and Russia resumed on Monday a ministerial security dialogue for the first time in over three years. But the talks are seen as a symbolic development rather than substantial, and may have only served Moscow's interest in showing its improved ties with a ...
With U.S. President Donald Trump apparently paying little attention to regional order in Asia, Japan should push for cooperation with its neighbors to foster long-term coexistence with a rising China, according to a Japanese expert on international relations. Trump's apparent indifference to Asia has triggered ...
