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JAPAN
Oct 13, 2020

Power firm JERA to shut inefficient coal-fired plants by 2030

The firm also said it aims to achieve net zero emissions of carbon dioxide by 2050.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Top Global Universities in Japan
Oct 5, 2020

Expectations toward universities and global talent

The business world has high expectations for globalizing universities to better prepare students to contribute and lead as global talent. We asked David Macdonald, representative officer and president of Discovery Japan, about his expectations and hopes for universities in the global era.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 2, 2020

Secrecy and speed: Inside Ant Group’s unusual IPO process

The fintech giant is following a highly unusual process that draws on some of the tactics its former parent and affiliate Alibaba Group has previously used.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2020

How Harley-Davidson lost its rumble in India

India hasn't been an easy market for Harley, where it's had an assembly plant for a decade and only sells a few thousand bikes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 18, 2020

TikTok’s owner gaining confidence that Beijing will OK U.S. deal

The proposal calls for ByteDance to own most of TikTok, with Oracle, Walmart Inc. and venture capital investors holding a minority.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2020

Why calls to boycott 'Mulan' over concerns about China are growing

Disney’s live-action remake of "Mulan” has drawn a fresh wave of criticism for being filmed partly in Xinjiang, the region in China where Uighur Muslims have been detained in mass internment camps.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 5, 2020

Competing interests of labor unions laid bare at TV Asahi

When a company's workforce contains both journalists and news program workers, conflict can arise.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 28, 2020

SoftBank Group to sell $12.5 billion of stock in mobile wireless unit

Some 927 million shares of SoftBank Corp. will be sold via a global secondary offering, with the unit buying back up to 1.68 percent of its shares for about u00a5100 billion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2020

Pharma rivals are fighting COVID-19 together — Why stop there?

Pandemics make for strange bedfellows.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 24, 2020

European battery-makers power up for a 'green' recovery

European firms are focusing on niche markets and new technologies rather than taking on Asian firms whose mass production is aimed at supplying electric vehicles.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 23, 2020

Threatened by Facebook disinformation, a Buddhist monk flees Cambodia

The case shows how repressive governments can move with stunning speed to disgrace opponents, using social media and technology to amplify their divisive campaigns.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 22, 2020

Yellow brick roads: How Japan's tactile paving aids solo travel

Revolutionary tiles may have given the visually impaired more independence, but developers aren't content to rest on their laurels just yet.
Anthropic, an AI startup founded in 2021, is one of the world’s most valuable private companies and competes with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI as well as Google and Microsoft.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 28, 2025

Anthropic says attacker used AI tool in widespread hacks

The campaign demonstrated a "concerning evolution in AI-assisted cybercrime” in which a single user can operate like an entire cybercriminal team.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the world's largest contract maker of chips, used in everything from smartphones to missiles.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 28, 2025

Taiwan prosecutors charge three with stealing TSMC trade secrets

The three people include a former TSMC engineer who went to work for Tokyo Electron's Taiwan subsidiary and two staff employed by the chipmaker.
A sleepy Tokyo-listed operator of nail salons is aiming to reinvent itself as one of the world’s largest corporate holders of Bitcoin.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 30, 2025

Japanese nails salon attempts reinvention as major bitcoin holder

The shift is the latest in a wave of radical financial reinventions pulling the likes of biotech firms and regional banks into crypto’s orbit.
Eric Trump, a son of U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at the Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong on Friday. He attended an extraordinary shareholders meeting of Metaplanet in Tokyo on Monday as the firm's adviser.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 2, 2025

Eric Trump takes stage in Japan as bitcoin firm Metaplanet votes on capital plan

The relationship between the Japanese bitcoin firm and U.S. President Donald Trump's son comes as the Trump family expands its crypto ventures internationally.
Brand-new toilet paper and other items are displayed at secondhand goods store PX in the city of Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 19.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 2, 2025

Tokyo police ensure mountain of lost and found items don't go to waste

The Metropolitan Police Department received some 4.756 million lost items last year — a record number.
Takeshi Niinami, who has resigned as Suntory Holdings chairman and CEO, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 3, 2025

Ex-Suntory CEO Niinami says he is confident he has 'broken no laws'

His comments came a day after Tuesday’s shocking revelation that he is the target of a police investigation over illegal drugs.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a warning via social media after the EU announced it was fining Google almost €3 billion ($3.5 billion) and ordering the search giant to stop favoring its own advertising technology services.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 6, 2025

Trump threatens trade actions after EU fines Google over ads

The EU announced that it was fining Google almost €3 billion ($3.5 billion) and ordering it stop favoring its own advertising technology services.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with head of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) autonomous non-profit organization at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2025

Russia targets billionaire’s empire over alleged Ukraine links

The case shows how asset seizures in Russia are surging since the invasion of Ukraine, as the Kremlin cracks down on perceived enemies of the state.
Bartering has returned to Russian foreign trade as companies trying to avoid Western sanctions swap wheat for Chinese cars and flax seeds for building materials.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2025

Wheat for Chinese cars? Russia turns to barter to skirt sanctions.

The return of the old-fashioned practice shows just how far the war in Ukraine has distorted trading ties for the world's biggest producer of natural resources.
Boring tests will be conducted in two areas near the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power's Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture to look into ground hardness, ahead of the planned construction of a new nuclear reactor.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2025

Kansai Electric to complete survey for new nuclear reactor in 2030

A final decision on whether to build the new reactor will be made after a detailed survey to examine the impact of earthquakes.
Chinese tech stocks have surged in past weeks, driven by a perception that the nation’s industry leaders are making steady progress in developing homegrown AI and chips.
BUSINESS
Sep 18, 2025

Huawei unveils AI chip road map to challenge Nvidia’s lead

Chinese tech stocks have surged in past weeks, driven by a perception that the nation’s industry leaders are making steady progress in developing homegrown AI and chips.
Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz speaks after signing a contract for the delivery of mobile communication centers in Zegrze, Poland, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 25, 2025

Poland becomes top importer of Taiwanese drones, skirting China

From almost nothing in the previous years, Poland is now absorbing almost 60% of Taiwan’s drone exports, which expanded this year to about $32 million through August.
Pokemon said it has not given permission to use its upbeat theme music and imagery for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's deportation video posted on X and TikTok.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 26, 2025

U.S. Department of Homeland Security doubles down on Pokemon-themed deportation video

The Pokemon Co. said they had no involvement in the Pokemon-themed arrest and deportation video.
Sony Financial Group CEO Toshihide Endo strikes the trading bell during the company's listing ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 29, 2025

Sony Financial surges in spinoff listing in Tokyo trading debut

The reference price for Sony ’s financial unit was set at ¥150 last week, which would translate into a market capitalization of about ¥1 trillion ($6.7 billion).
Yokohama F. Marinos players during a match against Al Nassr in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 26. Household appliance retailer Nojima has been floated as a possible buyer for the team if its sale by Nissan goes ahead.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 1, 2025

Nojima may consider buying Yokohama F. Marinos

Nissan is considering selling off the club in the J1 top division of the J.League.
Yokohama midfielder Kota Watanabe (center) during a game against Kawasaki at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama last month.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 4, 2025

Nissan aims to remain top shareholder of Yokohama F. Marinos

The struggling automaker may sell some shares in the club, saying that "we are actively evaluating enhancements to the shareholding structure."
University of Tokyo lands its highest spot ever in global higher education ranking
The University of Tokyo in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
After ruling bloc breakup, CDP and Komeito eye unified PM candidate
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda speaks to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on Friday.
As the Osaka Expo comes to a close, what will its legacy be?
After a run-up marked by apathy, organizers soon found they had the opposite problem as crowd control became a concern.
Why Japan's coalition collapsed — and what's next
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi enters party headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
At Osaka Expo, gas giants promote a greener future. But is it a lot of hot air?
The Gas Pavilion had welcomed around 500,000 visitors by the end of August, making it one of the most popular exhibits at the Osaka Expo.
‘Takaichi trade’ starts unwinding as political calculus upended by Komeito exit
Less than a week ago, Sanae Takaichi seemed set to become Japan's first female prime minister.
‘Save the Ring’ calls intensify as Osaka Expo’s end nears
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there
Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi stopped by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya Ward last month following his stint at Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing his show “Comedy Samurai.”

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

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
By Patrick St. Michel

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