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SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son’s bets on artificial intelligence have fueled a 146% surge in the stock since the fiscal year began in April.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 22, 2025

SoftBank’s heavy weight forces skeptical stock investors to buy

SoftBank shares provided almost 10% of the increase in the Topix’s market capitalization since the end of March.
Nissan’s ProPilot navigates traffic while under human supervision during a test drive in Tokyo last week.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 22, 2025

Nissan revamps ProPilot to rival Tesla's driver-assist technology

The next version will be able to take on complex city streets using fewer cameras and monitors thanks to artificial intelligence software.
Nvidia's $100 billion investment is meant to help OpenAI build data centers with a capacity of at least 10 gigawatts of power — equipped with Nvidia’s advanced chips to train and deploy AI models.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2025

Nvidia and OpenAI make $100 billion deal to build data centers

The investment is meant to help OpenAI build data centers with a capacity of at least 10 gigawatts of power — equipped with Nvidia’s advanced chips to train and deploy AI models.
Google could be forced to sell a part of its online advertising business as antitrust enforcers bring their latest case against the tech giant.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2025

Google seeks to avoid ad tech breakup as antitrust trial begins

The case comes after regulators recently failed in a separate bid to make Google sell its Chrome browser earlier this month.
People attend a U.S. naturalization ceremony for new citizens in Savannah, Georgia, on July 29, 2024. The new worker visa fees could mean fewer talented immigrants coming to the U.S., who often go on to launch new firms, analysts say.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 24, 2025

Trump's new visa fees spur offshoring talks and hiring turmoil

While the $100,000 fee applies only to new applicants, the confusion around its roll-out and steep cost are leading companies to pause recruitment, budgeting and workforce plans.
Takatoshi Ito, professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, speaks during an interview in Tokyo in July 2017.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 24, 2025

Takatoshi Ito, Japanese inflation target advocate, dies at 74

Ito died on Sept. 20 from an unspecified illness, according to a statement on his personal website.
In April 2022, the Tokyo Stock Exchange reorganized its four markets into three sections: Prime, Standard and Growth.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Sep 25, 2025

In fourth year of TSE reform, listed firms face pivotal choices

The TSE reorganized its four markets into three sections, then disclosed that 208 companies did not meet the criteria for continued listing on these markets.
A bipartisan group of economic experts urged the Supreme Court not to let U.S. President Donald Trump fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 26, 2025

Economic luminaries enter legal battle over Fed independence

The Supreme Court this year has largely sided with Trump in his firing decisions, but the justices have previously said the Fed is a "uniquely structured, quasi-private entity.”
A BYD Dolphin during a test drive in Yokohama. Due to poor sales in Japan, BYD is offering discounts of up to ¥1 million.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 29, 2025

BYD brings price war to Japan in bid to win over customers

BYD is now turning to discounts — a practice that’s put it front and center of an industry crackdown in China — to try and boost sales.
Japanese property developers are expanding investments in London's prime business locations.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 29, 2025

U.K. draws Japan property investors eyeing hedge on U.S. turmoil

Japanese investors have been pouring more capital into the U.K. over the last couple of years.
On Friday, Nidec said in a financial report that it had unearthed new problems following an external probe that found evidence of systemic accounting problems.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 29, 2025

Nidec shares slide after widening accounting scandal hurts trust

The company said in a financial report — submitted after a three-month delay — that it had unearthed new problems following evidence of systemic accounting problems.
Huawei Technologies is regarded as China’s best hope of weaning itself off the foreign chips that power the world’s second-largest economy.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 30, 2025

Huawei to double output of top AI chip as Nvidia wavers in China

The Chinese company plans to make about 600,000 of its marquee 910C Ascend chips next year, a feat that would represent a technical breakthrough for it.
Industrial production in Japan dropped 1.2% from the previous month, following the same pace of decline from July, according to the economy ministry.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 30, 2025

Japan’s output falls as U.S. tariffs drag on global outlook

The data reflect ongoing caution among manufacturers as the U.S. continues to threaten additional tariffs to narrow its trade deficit.
U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer speaks during an Economic Club of New York luncheon in New York on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 1, 2025

Trump trade chief expects U.S. to ink more deals during Asia trip

The U.S. president is set to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea, and has been invited to a Southeast Asian leaders' summit in Malaysia.
Among Keidanren member firms traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's top-tier section, the proportion of female executives rose by 2.2 points to 19.0%, reaching the government's 2025 interim target.
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2025

Share of female execs at major Japan firms rises to 18.4%

The figure remained below the government's target of increasing the share of female executives at companies on the Prime section to at least 19% by 2025.
August’s unemployment figures showed a slight tempering of Japan's job market, but the data still points to overall firmness amid an ongoing labor shortage.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 3, 2025

Japan’s jobless rate edges up to highest in over a year

August’s figures showed a slight tempering of the job market, but the data still points to overall firmness amid an ongoing labor shortage.
A trade fair for video games in Paris in 2023. The games industry in general has struggled in recent years, with players spending more time on existing titles and not taking as many chances on new ones.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2025

Xbox’s hike on Game Pass shows cost of lost Call of Duty sales

The price hike and other changes are a sign that Xbox’s big streaming push is still not generating the revenue it would like eight years after launch.
Construction is underway on a Project Stargate AI infrastructure site, a collaboration between three large tech companies — OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle — in Abilene, Texas, in April.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2025

Trump targets deals in pharma, AI, energy and mining before midterm elections

Washington is pursuing deals across up to 30 industries, involving dozens of companies deemed critical to national or economic security.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Oct 6, 2025

Competition heats up to challenge Nvidia's AI chip dominance

Nvidia now boasts the world's highest revenue, driven by sales of its GPUs — the processors that are key to building the technology behind ChatGPT and its rivals.
Government Pension Investment Fund President Kazuto Uchida has said that an investment approach targeting environmental and social goals ultimately leads to economic and capital markets growth.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2025

World’s biggest pension fund puts impact investing on the agenda

In Japan, impact investing strategies are likely to center around climate, health care, wellbeing and inclusivity.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks in Washington in July.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2025

OpenAI signs multibillion dollar chip deal with AMD

The ChatGPT-maker is pushing ahead with an investment spree to secure massive amounts of computing power.
High voltage transmission towers in Tokyo. Power traders are fueling a boom in weather data, which helps them to anticipate sudden price swings.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2025

Energy firms snap up weather services for trading edge in Japan

Weathernews is among a handful of companies cashing in on demand for meteorological data.
Japan’s government set a target of 60 million annual foreign visitors by 2030, but many businesses involved with tourism are already struggling with skilled worker shortages.
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2025

Japan set to be most impacted by tourism labor shortages globally, report shows

The country will see a 29% shortfall in necessary labor in 2035, according to the Future of the Travel & Tourism Workforce report.
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 11, 2025

Trump ratchets up U.S.-China trade war with new levies and export controls

The actions signaled the biggest rupture in relations in four months between Beijing and Washington — the world's biggest factory and its biggest consumer.
A worker waters the site of a rare earth metals mine in Nancheng county, in China's Jiangxi province, in January 2011.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2025

The world’s chip supply chain is bracing for fallout from China’s rare-earth curbs

The restrictions represent the first major attempt by Beijing to exercise long-arm jurisdiction over foreign companies to target the semiconductor industry.
A Qantas Boeing 737-800 plane prepares to land next to a Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft preparing to take off at Sydney International Airport in September last year. The Australian airline said Sunday that data from 5.7 million customers stolen in a major cyberattack in July had been leaked online.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 12, 2025

Australian airline Qantas says millions of customers' data leaked online

Most of the data leaked was names, email addresses and frequent flyer details, the firm said.
A container ship at the Port of Los Angeles. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of pointing a bazooka at the supply chains and the industrial base of the entire free world with its rare earth curbs.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 14, 2025

Trump and Xi spark another standoff with world economy at risk

The question now is which side blinks first.
Takahiro Kobayashi, the new CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management, says the firm is aiming to become one of the top three managers of Japanese mutual funds.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2025

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust’s fund manager targets top-three ranking

The firm is shooting for the higher ranking by driving up two of its funds’ total assets to more than ¥1 trillion each.
Britain's National Cyber Security Centre was asked to help with 429 cyber incidents in the 12 months to August, half of which were considered to be of "national significance."
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2025

U.K. warns business leaders as 'highly significant' cyber incidents rise 50%

A series of cyberattacks in recent months has knocked some of Britain's biggest brands — including Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Jaguar Land Rover — offline.
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot with U.S. President Donald Trump during an announcement about lowering U.S. drug prices, at the White House in Washington on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2025

U.S. investments, and rhetoric, help AstraZeneca seal drug deal with Trump

Deal to lower drug costs for Americans and shield the drugmaker from import tariffs was the culmination of efforts stretching back to November last year, sources say.
Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
Japan to subsidize demolition of abandoned inns
Abandoned Japanese-style inns in the Kinugawa hot springs resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2023
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

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