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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 27, 2018

Japan's financial regulation shake-up seen as a game changer for banks

The Financial Services Agency is laying the groundwork for a regulatory overhaul that could lead to a shake-up in Japan's ¥1 quadrillion banking industry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 26, 2018

Apple and autos add fresh impulse to world economy as capital spending spreads

Companies across the developing world are stepping up investment to meet rising demand from industrial economies, in a development that is further boosting already buoyant global growth.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2018

How to test your favorite conspiracy theory

In most cases, witnesses are unreliable, and the stories are too complicated to be true.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 23, 2018

Nissan and DeNA to launch self-driving taxi trial in Yokohama

Nissan and the game maker plan to hold a two-week experiment in Yokohama to develop a ride-hailing app for self-driving cabs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2018

Uber CEO plans closer ties with Toyota on autonomous driving

The world's largest car maker and the world's biggest ride-hailing company plan to team up on autonomous driving as technological changes sweep through the transportation industry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / A MATTER OF HEALTH
Feb 20, 2018

Online test aims to educate Japanese teen girls about sexual violence

Question: "Someone I've met on the internet asked me to send them a picture of myself. What should I do?"
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 16, 2018

The push for solar power lights up options for India's rural women

In her village of Komalia, the fog swirls so thick at 7 a.m. that Akansha Singh can see no more than 15 meters ahead. But the 20-year-old is already cycling to her workplace, 9 kilometers away.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018

Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics Day 6: Silver and smiles

Japan's silver streak continued Wednesday with Ayumu Hirano in the men's half pipe and Nao Kodaira in the women's speed skating 1000m event.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2018

SpaceX gets FCC chief's nod to launch satellite-based broadband network

Elon Musk's SpaceX, fresh off the successful launch this month of the world's most powerful rocket, won an endorsement on Wednesday from the top U.S. communications regulator to build a broadband network using satellites.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 14, 2018

U.K. judge refuses to stop legal action against WikiLeaks' Assange

A British judge refused on Tuesday to halt legal proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for jumping bail and fleeing to the Ecuadorean embassy in London in June 2012.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 13, 2018

For young Japanese seeking romance, beauty is in the eye of the dating app

Japan's millennials are apathetic about romance, and everyone knows it.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Feb 12, 2018

China's millennium-old fireworks hub grapples with bans and shifting traditions

From the concrete bunkers carved into the hillside, where workers gingerly handle piles of explosive black powder, to the shop fronts selling colorful boxes of pyrotechnics, time may be catching up with Liuyang's millennium-old fireworks industry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 8, 2018

SoftBank in talks to buy one-third stake in reinsurer Swiss Re as domestic rivals report record profits

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son is warming to an industry that's long been a favorite of billionaires looking to diversify their business empires.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 7, 2018

SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son eyes telecoms IPO within 2018

SoftBank Group Corp. said Wednesday that it wants to list its Japanese telecoms unit this year, a move toward completing its transformation from a domestic telecoms upstart into one of the world's biggest technology investors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 2, 2018

Kaz Hirai to end six-year Sony reign on high note

Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai, the man credited with the electronics giant's turnaround, will assume the chairmanship and be replaced by his right-hand man.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 1, 2018

Uber plots expansion in Japan and Singapore amid talk of retreat from Asia

If Uber Technologies Inc. is planning a retreat from Asia, no one told Brooks Entwistle, head of the ride-hailing company's business in the region.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 31, 2018

Hawaii employee mistook 'exercise' for real missile attack: FCC

A Hawaii employee who issued a false missile warning mistook a test drill for an actual attack, the U.S. Federal Communications said on Tuesday, faulting the state's handling of the issue.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2018

Justice Department's inspector general turns up anti-Trump FBI agents' missing text messages

The Justice Department's inspector general has recovered missing text messages from two FBI officials who sharply criticized Donald Trump, making them a flash point in the debate over the federal criminal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
BUSINESS / DAVOS SPECIAL 2018
Jan 23, 2018

Innovative maps show relationships among key issues

In 2016, World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab proclaimed the fourth industrial revolution as a distinct evolution from its predecessor because of the rapid onset of ubiquitous change.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2018

China turning into a scientific superpower

China is rapidly gaining in the global race for knowledge.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 22, 2018

SoftBank reportedly ready to invest $400 million in health care portal run by Chinese firm Ping An Insurance

SoftBank Group Corp. is nearing a deal to invest about $400 million in a health care portal run by Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. ahead of the Chinese company's initial public offering, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jan 21, 2018

January 22, 2018

LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Jan 21, 2018

Beloved games get bigger and better

'Dissidia' breeding'
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Jan 20, 2018

Entering the drone age: Japan seeks to tap into the potential of unmanned flying vehicles

When officials from the Crisis Management Division of the city of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture carried out emergency response drills last summer, they received a helping hand from an unconventional source.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 17, 2018

Blockchain and drones could play a role in Tepco's fight for survival

Shattered by the enormity of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and bleeding customers to nimbler rivals, Tokyo's lumbering, 66-year-old electric-power behemoth has a new strategy for long-term survival: reinventing itself as a cutting-edge innovator.
China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost
China Coast Guard officers unfurl a national flag on Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in disputed waters of the South China Sea this month in this screen shot taken from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
California says it overtakes Japan to become world’s No. 4 economy
Vehicles travel along the 110 freeway in downtown Los Angeles. California's GDP has overtaken Japan's to become the world's fourth largest economy, according to the U.S. state.
Arunima Mazumdar: ‘Japanese literature has a niche but deeply engaged readership in India’
Arunima Mazumdar, a New Delhi-based communications professional, began sharing her love of Japanese literature online in 2022. The platform has grown into a robust community known as Dokusha Book Club.
Expo '25 gives the world a masterclass in mascots
2025 Osaka Expo mascot Myaku-Myaku dances on the stage during the event's official opening ceremony on April 12.
Japan struggles with gray zone of AI deepfakes exploiting children
AI-generated content — including those made using pictures of real people, which are known as “deepfakes” — is not explicitly covered under Japan's current legal framework, nor are human-drawn illustrations that depict child abuse.
‘Wildcat Dome’ challenges Japan's historical narratives
On the surface, "Wildcat Dome" tells a personal story of damaged children — now adults — bound together by tragedy. Underneath, there’s a constant undercurrent of political consequence, invisible and pervasive like radioactive particles.
Reclaiming Sanya, one meal at a time
Magokoro Yoshihira (center) is the managing director of Yui Associates, which operates the neighborhood fixtures of Sanya Cafe and Juyoh Hotel. Yusuke Takahashi (left) met Yoshihira during a difficult period in his life and now works as the cafe’s chef. Nancy Anne (right) has worked for over 10 years at Juyoh Hotel and enjoys the multicultural environment.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
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