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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 9, 2021

Likely legal, ‘vaccine passports’ emerge as the next coronavirus divide in U.S.

Around the U.S., businesses, schools and politicians are considering 'vaccine passports” as a path to reviving the economy and getting Americans back to work and play.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2021

Investors press companies on human rights in Xinjiang

The moves highlight the challenges for brands trying to maintain their business ties amid rising tensions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2021

Prince Harry fits right in as a Silicon Valley executive

Harry is far from the first royal to trade the palace for the boardroom.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2021

H&M faces boycott in China over stance on treatment of Uyghurs

A similar statement from Nike was also attracting criticism on Wednesday, a sign that Western clothing manufacturers could face growing hostility in China.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 20, 2021

This startup sold DNA kits to test poop. Prosecutors say it’s a fraud.

The founders of uBiome Inc. were criminally charged with a $60 million fraud in an alleged scheme that reads like a smaller-scale, lower-profile version of the collapse of Theranos Inc.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2021

Uber's U.K. driver benefits highlight broader gig-worker challenges

Uber has said it wants to expand limited benefits similar to those offered to drivers in the U.K. across all of Europe and the United States.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 18, 2021

SoftBank loses global head of communications Gary Ginsberg

Masayoshi Son's conglomerate has lost a number of senior executives over the past several months.
A man places a sign outside a Tesla dealership during a protest against its CEO Elon Musk, in Los Angeles, California, last month.
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Apr 4, 2025

Tesla investors brace for further sales decline as Musk backlash grows

Protests in many countries against Musk's involvement in the Trump administration and far-right politics in Europe have tarnished the image of the once-leading EV brand.
One of Honda's most senior executives resigned over allegations he’d engaged in inappropriate conduct during a social gathering outside of work hours.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 7, 2025

Senior Honda executive resigns after allegations of misconduct

Honda’s audit committee investigated the accusations against Shinji Aoyama, an executive vice president and board director, and compiled a disciplinary action plan.
Brine pools at the Atacama salt flat in Antofagasta region, Chile, in 2023. Local Chilean Indigenous communities are pushing for greater control over lithium extraction in the country just as the government plans to raise production.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Apr 8, 2025

As Chile revs up lithium plans, Indigenous people demand more control

Mining companies describe a potential system as "unprecedented" in Chile, adding that it would comply with international treaties on Indigenous rights.
Bento boxes and other food items attract visitors at the Sera roadside station in Hiroshima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Apr 21, 2025

10 years on, Hiroshima-Shimane highway boosts logistics and tourism

The Chugoku Yamanami Highway has played a crucial role in regional development since its full opening in 2015.
The U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works facility in Pennsylvania
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 9, 2025

U.S. Steel says activist investor now in favor of Nippon Steel deal

Ancora Holdings owns less than a 1% stake in the company.
A myocardial cell sheet using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 9, 2025

Japanese startup seeks approval for world’s first iPS regenerative treatment

The Osaka University startup is targeting patients suffering from severe heart failure for whom current treatment options are limited.
Guests play the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 console at an event in Paris on April 2.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 10, 2025

Nintendo gets breathing room on tariffs — just in time for Switch 2 launch

Nintendo dodges a 46% tariff on Vietnam-assembled consoles, buying time to flood the U.S. with Switch 2 units before the launch window closes.
Fast Retailing Chairman and CEO Tadashi Yanai smiles during a news conference on Thursday in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 11, 2025

Fast Retailing's first-half sales hit record high

The growth reflected strong domestic sales of Heattech heat-retention garments and down jackets.
Bottles of Hakkaisan-brand sake for export
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2025

U.S. tariffs overshadow Japan's agriculture and food exports

Japanese goods need to be sold by "emphasizing that there are no alternatives" to them, said Kazuhito Yamashita, senior researcher at the Canon Institute for Global Strategies.
SBI Holdings CEO Yoshitaka Kitao speaks during a news conference on Thursday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 17, 2025

SBI Holdings CEO to 'fight to the end' if Fuji Media resists leadership rethink

Yoshitaka Kitao said he will increase SBI Holdings’ stake in Fuji Media Holdings depending on how the TV network responds.
Shares of Eli Lilly & Co. surged on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after early reports of its experimental weight-loss drug put in a par with market leader Ozempic. The stocks of the drug’s originator, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., also saw an uptick.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 18, 2025

Weight-loss pill orforglipron shines in study, boosting Lilly and Chugai

Eli Lilly’s orforglipron pill, licensed from Chugai Pharmaceutical, could reshape the booming weight-loss drug market, early data shows.
Rescue personnel search for survivors trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Bangkok on April 2, five days after an earthquake struck central Myanmar and Thailand. Thai authorities say they have arrested a Chinese executive at a company that was building the skyscraper.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 21, 2025

Exec linked to Bangkok building collapse arrested

The skyscraper was the only major building in the capital to fall in the catastrophic March 28 earthquake.
The logo of Jetstar Airways on an aircraft parked outside a maintenance hangar in Melbourne, Australia, on Feb. 27.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 22, 2025

Jetstar Japan fined for failing to provide adequate cabin crew breaks

This is the first time a ruling has been handed down in Japan regarding flight attendants' rest time, according to the plaintiffs.
An attendee plays with the Nintendo Switch 2 gaming device at a media event in Tokyo on April 3.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 24, 2025

Nintendo says demand for Switch 2 console in Japan is overwhelming

"We have received 2.2 million applications for the lottery sale at our official online store for customers in Japan alone," said Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa.
Stephen Dacus, incoming chief executive officer of Seven & I Holdings, speaks during an interview at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Friday. Dacus plans to boost investments in its U.S. stores using cash from a planned listing of its American retail operations.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2025

Seven & I’s new CEO plans aggressive investments in U.S. stores

In addition to investing in its North America operations, Stephen Dacus is also looking to review the company’s supply chain globally.
A Maruti Suzuki concept electric SUV at a trade show in Gandhinagar, India, last January
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2025

Maruti Suzuki profit misses estimate on higher input costs

The disappointing earnings for the sector leader come amid a broader consumption slack in the world’s most populous country.
The Maersk Launcher, chartered by a seabed-mining company to explore the practices viability, returns from an expedition to the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean in June 2021.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2025

Trump moves to ramp up deep-sea mining for critical minerals

The move comes amid increasing concern over new Chinese curbs on the export of rare-earth materials.
The launchpad is seen after a Russian Soyuz 2.1A rocket carrying satellites took off at the new Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, in Russia's far eastern Amur region in April 2016.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2025

Russian satellite tied to nuke program appears out of control, analysts say

The Cosmos 2553 satellite has had various bouts of what appears to be errant spinning over the past year.
Farmer Moises Schmidt shows a cocoa bean at the Schmidt Agricola plantation in Riachao das Neves, Bahia state, Brazil, on Nov. 19, 2024.
BUSINESS
Apr 29, 2025

Brazil's would-be cocoa king aims to revolutionize industry with giant farm

The farmer's $300 million plan is the largest and the most innovative in the Brazilian state of Bahia, but not the only one.
Google has been pushing back on the remedies proposed by the U.S. to address its search dominance — one of which is sharing search data with rivals.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 3, 2025

U.S. presses for Google to share data by citing Yahoo Japan deal

Google has long had a relationship with Yahoo Japan to provide it with search results and some backend work related to search advertising.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
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