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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 22, 2021

Shiseido in talks to sell personal-care business to CVC

The firm has been revamping its portfolio as the coronavirus pandemic has changed cosmetic and personal care routines, dealing a blow to beauty companies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Great Reset
Jan 19, 2021

Trade in personal data is here to stay

Japan is well-placed to be a leader in data trading, but technical hurdles need to be overcome and mindsets need to be changed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Dec 31, 2020

Japan Times 1996: Murayama to step down

A prime minister steps aside after being blamed for a series of blunders related to the previous year's catastrophes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 29, 2020

For Japan's automakers, Brexit deal may be too little, too late

Automakers including Nissan Motor might struggle to qualify some U.K.-assembled models for tariff-free export to the EU as they evaluate their local sourcing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Dec 27, 2020

How a British COVID-19 vaccine went from pole position to troubled start

A review of records and interviews with scientists and industry figures gives a detailed account of what went wrong with the Oxford-AstraZeneca study.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 22, 2020

With ‘next level’ battery tech, Apple targets autonomous car by 2024

Making a vehicle represents a supply chain challenge even for Apple, a company with deep pockets that makes hundreds of millions of electronics products each year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 20, 2020

No ‘negative’ news: How China censored the coronavirus

Officials scrambled to suppress inconvenient news and reclaim the narrative, according to confidential directives sent to local propaganda workers and news outlets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 19, 2020

U.S. blacklists dozens of Chinese firms, including SMIC and DJI

The United States added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and Chinese drone manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd., to a trade blacklist on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ratchets up tensions with China in his final weeks in office.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 12, 2020

What happens when a superspreader event keeps spreading?

A new analysis of a conference at a Boston hotel has concluded that the coronavirus strains loosed at the meeting have since migrated worldwide and sickened about 245,000 Americans.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2020

Apple suppliers’ exodus from China won’t slow down under Biden

The moves presage a larger and longer-term migration that may have ramifications for the iPhone maker as well as China's role as workshop to the world.
The Nippon Steel logo is displayed at the company's East Nippon Works Kimitsu Area plant in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, last month.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 14, 2025

Trump gives formal blessing to Nippon Steel's $14.8 billion bid for U.S. Steel

The approval capped a tumultuous 18-month effort by the companies, beset by union opposition and national security reviews.
A social media influencer photographs her meal for her followers.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 16, 2025

Influencers take bigger bite of ad pie as economic turmoil tightens budgets

Brands increased investment in influencer partnerships by 49% in 2024 and content creators topped social media marketing budgets, taking up a quarter of total annual spending.
Renault CEO Luca de Meo delivers a speech during a Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi news conference to present updates for the automotive alliance in Boulogne-Billancourt, on Dec. 6, 2023. De Meo, who is leaving Renault, is reportedly taking on the CEO job at luxury group Kering.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 16, 2025

Outgoing Renault boss de Meo set for CEO job at Gucci owner Kering: report

Such a move would mark a dramatic change at the luxury group, which has struggled to reinvigorate its top brand after the COVID-19 pandemic.
A public clash between Donald Trump and Elon Musk exposed the national security risks of the U.S. government's heavy reliance on SpaceX, a private company controlled by a single individual.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2025

Washington divorcing SpaceX just isn’t possible right now

The U.S. government depends on SpaceX for low-cost space launches while competitors lag behind.
Japan Post President Tetsuya Senda speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2025

Japan Post to accept loss of truck transport business permit

The transport ministry is expected to revoke the permit by the end of this month at the earliest.
Taiyo Holdings Chief Executive Officer Eiji Sato
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2025

Japan activist clout shown in shareholder rejection of Taiyo CEO

Voting out a company’s CEO candidate, something that doesn’t happen often in Japan, is another sign of how activist investors are pushing to change company policies.
Miho Koshiba started her career in finance before she founded the Mirai Institute, a think tank that operates the Midori.so coworking space with an ever-growing cosmopolitan community across seven locations in Tokyo.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jun 28, 2025

Miho Koshiba: ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if people looked forward to Mondays?’

The cofounder of the Midori.so coworking space shares her inspirations and aspirations for career and community.
An undated photo supplied by a resident of an apartment complex in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward shows people who appear to be staff members offering illegal private lodging services. Their faces are blurred for privacy reasons.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2025

Around 250 takedown requests made in fiscal 2024 over illegal private lodgings

Operators of private lodgings must notify prefectural governments of their businesses, ensure sanitary conditions and handle complaints.
Rie Usui has been working to help people with disabilities get jobs, and now runs a talent agency for disabled people.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 29, 2025

Tokyo woman working to help people with disabilities secure jobs

Rie Usui's talent agency represents about 40 models and television personalities who feature in advertisements and TV drama series.
Nissan plans to sell convertible bonds and use the proceeds to invest in new products and technologies such as electrification and software-defined vehicles.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 7, 2025

Nissan to sell ¥150 billion of convertible bonds to fund turnaround

Proceeds of the sale will be used to invest in new products and technologies such as electrification and software-defined vehicles.
Though Netflix remains the dominant choice globally for anime viewers, Amazon Prime Video has also invested heavily in anime, steadily adding titles to their catalogue.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 9, 2025

Once a niche, anime is now mainstream content for Netflix and other streaming services

Today, more than half of Netflix’s global users watch anime on its service, with shows such as “Sakamoto Days” proving to be massive hits.
Tetsuro Kamata (second from left), deputy superintendent-general of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department, and Hirohide Mori (left), head of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office's public security division, apologize to former Ohkawara Kakohki executive Junji Shimada (second from right) and company President Masaaki Okawara on June 20 in Yokohama.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Jul 10, 2025

Improper law-enforcement interrogations persist in Japan

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations has emphasized the urgent need for further reforms in interrogation procedures.
After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
COMMUNITY / Issues / Longform
Jul 14, 2025

How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan

Remote work is reshaping how Indian professionals navigate life, family and identity in a post-pandemic Japan.
A memorial is held at the site of Kyoto Animation Co.'s No. 1 studio, in the city of Kyoto on Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2025

Six years on, victims of fatal Kyoto Animation attack remembered

Some 150 people including bereaved relatives and employees attended the ceremony at the former site of the studio, offering silent prayers.
While Seven & I shares are higher than they were before Couche-Tard’s interest became public in August 2024, they fell after the proposal was withdrawn this week and are down by more than a fifth this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 18, 2025

7-Eleven operator risks becoming buyout target again if turnaround fails

Seven & I Holdings remains a buyout target in the eyes of some investors, who say new suitors may emerge unless the operator of 7-Eleven turns around its business.
Mizuho Investor Relations President Eiichi Yamazaki speaks during an interview on July 14 in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 22, 2025

Mizuho to enhance client support amid rise of activist investors

President Eiichi Yamazaki said that Mizuho Investor Relations will leverage its extensive data on institutional investors' voting guidelines and past behavior.

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Rock group The Yellow Monkey played K-Arena Yokohama in June as part of a nationwide tour. Concerts are increasingly popular in the age of social media as users value in-person experiences.
Inside Japan’s arena boom: Sports, sound and city-building