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Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 30, 2020

Astra-Oxford coronavirus vaccine gets its first clearance with U.K. approval

AstraZeneca PLC and the University of Oxford's Covid-19 vaccine won U.K. clearance, marking the first approval worldwide for a shot that will be key to mass immunizations.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 29, 2020

U.S. Forces Japan begins vaccinating personnel against COVID-19

Inoculations began Monday at the Yokota Air Base, with front-line medical workers prioritized to receive the vaccine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Dec 28, 2020

Ant turning from windfall to nightmare for global investors

From a mild hit to a nightmare, here are some of the scenarios from investors and analysts on what a regulator-forced restructuring could look like.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 25, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg has another answer to Bitcoin

As German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz put it, referring to Libra's name change, 'a wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf.”
BUSINESS
Dec 24, 2020

Sky Scape: Beat the pandemic gloom with a view above the clouds

Sky Scape mimics a plane ascending and descending through clouds from sunrise to sunset, with no views of airports, cities or runways.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 23, 2020

Trudeau shuts out China again by rejecting Arctic gold deal

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government rejected a plan by China’s Shandong Gold Mining Co. to acquire a gold miner that operates in the Canadian Arctic, potentially inflaming a diplomatic feud.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 23, 2020

Past savior of Japan Airlines expects old values to beat pandemic

The carrier should stick to a philosophy of preserving jobs and keeping workers happy, former assistant chairman Yoshihito Ohta says.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 23, 2020

How vaccine-makers are preparing for mutant coronavirus strains

Drugmakers have said they could reset the COVID-19 shot to counter a new strain within just six weeks.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 22, 2020

SoftBank to match NTT Docomo's ¥2,980 smartphone plan as price war escalates

Some in the industry have accused the government of excessive meddling after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's administration urged major carriers to lower fees.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 22, 2020

Nomura’s China venture is winning more clients than expected

The company's majority-owned securities joint venture in Shanghai has won more than 300 customers for services including wealth management.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 20, 2020

South Korea sets record COVID-19 cases as prison reports major outbreak

With daily infections over 1,000 for a fifth consecutive day, some medical experts and politicians criticized the government for being too loose with social distancing rules.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 19, 2020

An epic year of market events shook China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

China, Hong Kong and Taiwan's economies were among the first to suffer from the virus pandemic. They were also home to some of the most dramatic events in global financial markets this year.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Dec 19, 2020

World looks to spring for pandemic relief as vaccinations start

The developed world could start to emerge from the deadly grip of the pandemic by late spring if the first wave of COVID-19 vaccines are deployed effectively.
BUSINESS
Dec 18, 2020

Wall Street’s prediction of ¥100 to the dollar catching on at Japan banks

The yen at u00a5100 to the dollar is a tough call for Japan's banks, mainly because it's the point where domestic exporters start losing money.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2020

While we're waiting for electric cars to fully charge, how about hybrids?

Investors have run up the stock prices of electric car companies and their valuations far higher than the businesses really warrant.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 17, 2020

How scalper bots are undercutting Sony's PlayStation 5

The problem is particularly acute this year because the coronavirus has squeezed production and pushed more console sales online.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 17, 2020

All aboard the billionaires’ Bitcoin bandwagon?

A surge of 1,000% in 2017 took Bitcoin's value to $19,000. A year later, it had dropped to less than $3,500.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 16, 2020

With goal of herd immunity, Indonesia will give younger people vaccines first

The country is targeting the people who are most mobile due to their jobs, as well as regions with the highest number of coronavirus cases.
Japan Times
Special Supplements
Dec 16, 2020

Technology aims to fix labor shortages

DRONE FUND, established by Kotaro Chiba in 2017, has provided capital to help develop the drone business. It launched the third round of funding to accelerate social implementation of drones and air mobility in May, aiming to raise ¥10 billion. NTT DOCOMO INC. is one of the first companies to invest...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2020

Trucks in China are watching if drivers doze, speed or slack off

Beijing-based G7 aims to monitor all steps along a product's logistics journey, from warehouse to delivery, remotely.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2020

Rags to riches: CEO of ¥100 billion startup comes up from the streets

Taihei Kobayashi's story is among the most remarkable to emerge from a small-cap stock boom that's minting fortunes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2020

'Buy or bury': Facebook faces U.S. lawsuits that could force sale of Instagram

The complaints say the social media giant relies on a strategy to snap up rivals and keep smaller competitors at bay.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 9, 2020

China’s state-backed coronavirus vaccine has 86% efficacy, says UAE

China’s state-backed coronavirus vaccine protected 86% of people from getting COVID-19 in trials conducted in the United Arab Emirates, reported media outlets including Reuters, citing the UAE’s health ministry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 4, 2020

How a mother's comment gave a Japanese intern an idea worth billions

Yuta Tsuruoka's Base Inc. has been a beneficiary of a rally in small-cap technology stocks in Japan as retail investors sought to pick winners in the pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 4, 2020

Pfizer scaled back COVID-19 vaccine output targets earlier this year

Pfizer Inc. scaled back its COVID-19 production targets earlier this year after the drugmaker ran into difficulties securing all the materials it needs to produce the shots at a large scale.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Dec 2, 2020

Netflix plans to double spending on original content in Asia

By stepping up its investment, the California-based company is gearing to tackle its main rivals Disney+ and Prime Video, as well as local competitors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2020

How wrong was Milton Friedman? Harvard team quantifies the ways.

'Without monetizing impacts, we're left with the illusion that businesses have no impact,” says Professor George Serafeim of Harvard Business School.

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