Labor shortage and virus fears push robotics and logistics companies to explore ways to integrate technology into consumer deliveries.

With people being asked to stay at home, car rental services took a hit across the country.

Singing your heart out at karaoke boxes may never feel the same in Japan in the coronavirus era. To encourage customers to return following the lifting of the state of emergency, the Japan Karaoke Box Association has drafted a set of guidelines detailing recommendations on ...

Revising their strategies this week, the firms will at least have the opportunity to show progress in moving beyond last year’s management paralysis.

The coronavirus pandemic is yanking corporate Japan into the 21st century and raising the shares of Bengo4.com Inc.

Changes in working style due to the pandemic may spur changes as companies are forced to re-examine long-entrenched business practices.

Transportation companies get creative in expanding delivery options to generate revenue as virus negatively impacts bottom lines.

The car industry is reinventing the wheel to prepare for autonomous vehicles. Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd., whose roots stretch back to when Henry Ford was building his Model T, is developing a "smart tire" that can monitor its own air pressure and temperature, and eventually ...

The only person in kimono at a recent government meeting on flying cars was Kotaro Chiba, a former online-game executive turned financier of a very specific kind. For Chiba, 44, who wears kimono on special occasions to show his pride in Japanese culture, is gathering ...

Toyota Motor Corp., Asia's biggest carmaker, is preparing for a potential future where people don't buy cars. That's behind the hefty investments the company has made in ride-hailing providers, most prominently the $1 billion it poured into Southeast Asian leader Grab. Toyota sees the partnership ...