Amazon.com Inc. is betting that stores of the future won't have any clerks or registers. A company in Japan thinks it can get there first. Signpost Corp., which has a staff of about 100, has already deployed its technology in a kiosk on the platform ...

Masayoshi Son has already paid a price for his close ties to Saudi Arabia. It could soon go much higher. Shares in Son's SoftBank Group Corp. plummeted the most in more than two years Monday after Saudi Arabia came under fire for the disappearance of ...

Five years ago, Koki Kimura pulled off an unthinkable turnaround to save his company. Now, he's trying to do it again. The 42-year-old runs a tech company called Mixi Inc., a firm with one of the most tumultuous corporate histories in Japan. It operated the ...

Nintendo Co.'s two-year old experiment in mobile gaming is heading for uncharted territory with Dragalia Lost, its first smartphone title featuring original characters rather than its established stars. Co-developed with new partner CyberAgent Inc., the free-to-play game is debuting Thursday on Apple and Android devices ...

Good things come to those who wait. Except, maybe, for Nintendo gamers. The company that created the Super Mario and Zelda franchises is finally embracing online gaming with the debut of its first online subscription service, charging $20 a year for users of its Switch ...

The legendary video game designer who created "Super Mario" and "Donkey Kong" has a word of advice for today's industry: Stop nickel-and-diming users. Shigeru Miyamoto, 65, said Nintendo Co. is exploring different ways of charging people for games, shunning the free-to-play model, which has become ...

Eight seconds — that's how long a cowboy needs to stay on a bucking bronco to qualify for a rodeo score. For photographers, that's barely enough time to take just a few blurry, often unusable pictures. "In the past, these images would have been made ...

One of the year's most spectacular startup payoffs isn't in Silicon Valley or China, it's in Japan. Mercari Inc.'s $3.7 billion coming-out party will deliver a 149-times return to early investor United Inc., which engineered a ¥300 million ($2.7 million) round in the flea-market app ...

Yuzo Kano is trying to build a global cryptocurrency powerhouse, one former financier at a time. The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. alumnus, who turned bitFlyer Inc. into Japan's largest bitcoin exchange, is scooping up traders and bankers from both his old employer and former rivals ...

Shuntaro Furukawa grew up playing the Family Computer, eventually realizing every teenager's dream of joining the company that made the genre-defining console. Now, as the next president of Nintendo Co., he has the chance to build a new franchise atop a hit product — ...