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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 22, 2019

Japan's Indo-Pacific dream or nightmare?

Unfinished political reform, militarization, technological authoritarianism, the politicization of history and great power rivalry is stressing the Indo-Pacific region and Tokyo's attempts to inculcate a rules-based order into the region.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 5, 2019

Japan Post Capital fund puts money behind Tokyo-based news startup SmartNews

It's a challenging time in the digital media industry. BuzzFeed Inc. and Vice Media Inc., which defined a generation of news startups, dismissed hundreds of employees this year in cost-cutting maneuvers. But a glimmer of hope is coming from a software company in Tokyo.
Japan Times
Special Supplements / G20 Osaka Summit Special
Jun 27, 2019

Enhanced Japan services accompany top-tier service

Providing flights to more countries than any other airline in the world, Turkish Airlines offers travelers comfortable passage to destinations across the globe. As it celebrates its 30th anniversary of flights to and from Japan, the airline continues to enhance services with exciting promotions and luxurious...
GLOBAL INSIGHT / Bahrain report 2019
Jun 26, 2019

Pioneering in fintech

“Bahrain has developed an extensive fintech ecosystem to future-proof our financial services sector and further transition the country into an innovation-driven economy,” said Khalid Saad, CEO of Bahrain FinTech Bay (BFB), the leading hub for fintech in the Middle East and North Africa region and...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 24, 2019

Guardians of money bristle at Mark Zuckerberg's new financial order

Facebook Inc. was hours away from the formal announcement of its ambitious foray into financial services, but French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire was already broadcasting his discontent.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2019

Despite Prius sales slump, hybrids as popular as ever

The Toyota Prius, once revered as the greenest car on the road, has fallen on hard times. Sales are on a six-year losing streak, and now the previously pre-eminent eco-mobile has fallen behind the Ford Fusion hybrid — a model its parent company plans to pull the plug on in a couple years.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 3, 2019

Now is the time for stronger G20 trade and investment

The G20 is uniquely placed to take collective action to ensure future prosperity.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 20, 2019

Japan startup making paper from stone seeks more pre-IPO funding

Making paper out of rock isn't just a novel idea — it saves water, is both recyclable and biodegradable and uses a mineral resource available anywhere on Earth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 8, 2019

Google debuts privacy controls and principles at its I/O developers event

Alphabet Inc.'s Google business announced new privacy controls Tuesday for its services, including "incognito mode" for Google Maps, and published new privacy commitments for its hardware, showing how increased public scrutiny is forcing greater transparency in Silicon Valley.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 29, 2019

The complex fortune growing inside Bytedance, the world's most valuable startup

Software engineer Zhang Yiming started out producing apps for sharing jokes before focusing on news aggregation. That pivot proved lucrative.
Japan Times
Mar 20, 2019

Yamaha Motor Invests in Industrial Taiwanese Equipment Manufacturer

- Strengthening Robotics Business Competitiveness -
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 16, 2019

Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents, jury finds

Mobile phone chip supplier Qualcomm on Friday won a legal victory against iPhone maker Apple, with a jury in federal court in San Diego finding that Apple owes Qualcomm about $31 million for infringing three of its patents.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2019

U.S. and China are sketching out statements on six issues that could halt trade war, sources say

The United States and China have started to outline commitments in principle on the stickiest issues in their trade dispute, marking the most significant progress yet toward ending a seven-month trade war, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 16, 2019

U.S.-China trade talks to resume next week as Trump hints at extension

The United States and China will resume trade talks next week in Washington with time running short to ease their bruising trade war, but U.S. President Donald Trump repeated on Friday that he may extend a March 1 deadline for a deal and keep tariffs on Chinese goods from rising.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2019

U.S.-China trade talks resume next week with focus on intellectual property

U.S. negotiators are preparing to press China next week on longstanding demands that it reform how it treats American companies' intellectual property in order to seal a trade deal that could prevent tariffs from rising on Chinese imports.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2019

U.S.-China trade talks set to resume, focusing on intellectual property

U.S. negotiators are preparing to press China on long-standing demands that it reform how it treats American companies' intellectual property in order to seal a trade deal that could prevent tariffs from rising on Chinese imports.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 29, 2019

Executives raise global growth alarm on risks from China and trade to Brexit

Corporate executives are increasingly nervous about the global economic outlook as they see threats multiplying from China to trade to Brexit.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 23, 2019

Trump won't soften hard line on need for China reforms to make trade deal, advisers say

As much as U.S. President Donald Trump wants to boost markets through a trade pact with China, he will not soften his position that Beijing must make real structural reforms, including how it handles intellectual property, to reach a deal, advisers say.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2019

Japanese firms circumventing traditional hiring timetable to find quality recruits

It's a rite of spring: Major corporations hire fresh university graduates en masse every April, starting them all at the same salary with assurances of rising pay and lifetime employment.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2019

The U.S.-China rivalry and Japan

The uncertainty created by the Trump administration is encouraging many nations around to world to seek new friends and to hedge their bets, and Japan and China are no exceptions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 19, 2019

U.S. demands regular review of China's trade reforms

The United States is pushing for regular reviews of China's progress on pledged trade reforms as a condition for a trade deal — and could again resort to tariffs if it deems Beijing has violated the agreement, according to sources briefed on negotiations to end the trade war between the two nations....
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 16, 2019

VW and Ford team up on trucks, with joint deals on EVs and self-driving cars likely to follow

Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Co. said on Tuesday they will join forces on commercial vans and pickups and are exploring joint development of electric and self-driving technology in moves meant to save the automakers billions of dollars.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 11, 2019

Hit by tougher standards and falling prices, Japan's cryptocurrency players face a pivotal 2019

Japanese crypto-exchange operators unexpectedly faced major problems last year due to the unprecedented hack in late January of Tokyo-based Coincheck Inc., which lost digital tokens estimated at the time to be worth ¥58 billion and caused commotion across the industry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 18, 2018

Google to spend $1 billion on new campus in New York as it taps talent pool

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is investing more than $1 billion on a new campus in New York, becoming the second major technology company after Amazon to pick America's financial capital to expand and create thousands of jobs.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 22, 2018

Yellow Magic Orchestra go big and go home

Yellow Magic Orchestra made its 1980 debut on the legendary American dance show “Soul Train” performing a cover of “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell & the Drells, two years after the November 1978 release of the trio’s eponymous first album

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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person