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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 25, 2013

Honda's Fujino readying 'flying Acura'

Michimasa Fujino began working on Honda Motor Co.'s aviation project 27 years ago at a hangar in Mississippi. Next year, Fujino, now president of the aircraft unit, says the project may finally get off the ground.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Jan 30, 2013

Daiwa House starts Singapore venture; EU showcases environment technology

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Japan Times
BUSINESS / INDIA-JAPAN SYMPOSIUM
Feb 15, 2012

Rising consumerism in India offers Japan huge potential, experts say

India is rapidly evolving as a consumer market and Japan, whose trade and investment relations with the emerging South Asian giant have so far been limited, should take advantage of the huge potential created by the new trends of consumerism in the country, scholars and experts from Indian universities...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2011

Sony regroups ailing TV business

Sony Corp., struggling to rebound from seven consecutive annual losses in television manufacturing, has reorganized the business into three groups.
BUSINESS / UK JOURNALIST SYMPOSIUM
Jun 5, 2008

Innovate to survive, U.K. journalists say

Innovation will be the key to the survival of advanced economies in the intensifying competition with emerging powers with cost advantages.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2006

Eco-technology development crucial: Ford exec

Although it is struggling with financial trouble, U.S. automaker Ford remains committed to investing in new products and technology, a senior executive said Friday.
BUSINESS
Apr 29, 2006

EU-Japan ties have big potential to move on to a new dimension

Japan and the European Union need to expand cooperation on multiple fronts, including security, energy and technological innovations, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said at a recent seminar in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2004

Business chiefs blame officials for shortcomings of Japan

OYAMA, Shizuoka Pref. -- Business leaders must lead the nation in soul-searching debate on Japan's security, diplomacy and constitutional issues, Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2004

Honda, GE to market engine for business jets

Honda Motor Co. and General Electric Co. said Monday they have agreed to jointly commercialize a new turbofan jet engine for small business planes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2003

Downsize, get out of China's way and rebuild: business chief

Japan should aggressively create new businesses to regain its global competitiveness, according to Kakutaro Kitashiro, new chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai).
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2003

Softbank in Yahoo Japan selloff

In an effort to bankroll its broadband business, Softbank Corp. announced Monday it will offload around 17 percent of its group stake in Yahoo Japan Corp.
BUSINESS
Jun 6, 2001

Canada business chief proposes free-trade deal

The head of a Canadian big-business group proposed Tuesday that Japan and Canada push preparations for a free-trade agreement so the two nations can drop trade barriers and secure a freer flow of commerce.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2001

Digital legend aims to fill technology gap with $100 computer

Digital technology is evolving at stunning speed, slashing the prices of all sorts of digital gadgets and linking numerous countries through the ever-growing World Wide Web. But these developments fail to satisfy Kazuhiko Nishi, who wants tools created to tear down the technological and language barriers...
BUSINESS
Apr 5, 2001

U.S. firms have arrived: ACCJ

The focus of America's business interests in Japan has changed from "trading with Japan" to "doing business in Japan," according to a biennial report released Wednesday by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2000

NEC to spend $150 million on U.S. phone technology

NEC Corp. said Monday that it will invest $150 million over the next two years in the development of next-generation mobile phone technologies to be marketed in North America.
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2000

AOL, DoCoMo eye phone tieup

Japan's top mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc., is negotiating with the world's largest Internet service provider, America Online Inc., to tie up in online business for cellular phones, it was learned Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 3, 2023

The promise and peril of generative AI

To ensure that artificial intelligence delivers widely shared benefits, we must heed the lessons of the last wave of digital innovation.
Icons of Google's Artificial Intelligence app BardAI (or ChatBot), OpenAI's app ChatGPT and other AI apps are displayed on a smartphone screen.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 20, 2023

Google tests AI tool that is able to write news articles

Some executives who saw Google’s pitch described it as unsettling, and two people said it seemed to take for granted the effort that went into producing accurate and artful news stories.
Sam Altman, the then-chief executive officer of OpenAI, speaks at Keio University in Tokyo in June.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 18, 2023

In shock move, ChatGPT maker OpenAI ousts CEO Sam Altman

The shock firing followed a review the company's board, which concluded that "he was not consistently candid in his communications."
Split over the leadership of Sam Altman, board members and executives at OpenAI turned on one another. Their brawl exposed the cracks at the heart of the artificial intelligence movement.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 11, 2023

Inside OpenAI’s crisis over the future of artificial intelligence

From the moment it was created in 2015, OpenAI was primed to combust.
Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive (right), arrives to testify at an antitrust case against Google in Washington on Oct. 30. A trio of antitrust cases on the docket threaten to reshape Google’s business and sap its profits.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 13, 2023

Google’s antitrust loss to Epic could preview its legal fate in 2024

The San Francisco case was the first test of how Google might fare in the antitrust gauntlet it faces in the United States — and the company was routed.
Volkswagen is casting its net wider in pursuit of a potentially game-changing technology: a "solid-state" electric car battery
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 16, 2024

Volkswagen and rivals plug away at solid-state battery puzzle

An array of technical hurdles are holding back wider development of solid-state technology, seen by its backers as the "holy grail" of EV batteries.
Japan’s shortage of software engineers in particular has caused the country to lag behind in its digital transformation.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 6, 2024

Tech firms in Japan are scouring for talent amid labor shortage

Three-quarters of technology hiring managers in Japan found recruitment to be "very” or "quite” competitive last year.
The U.K. government acknowledged in November that AI was already affecting jobs in the finance and insurance sector.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 27, 2024

U.K. stands to lose 8 million jobs from AI, analysis warns

AI already impacts 11% of tasks done by U.K. staff, a figure that could rise to almost 60% if firms integrate the technology more deeply.
Nissan is leveraging its e-Power hybrid technology in Tunisia as Africa is not ready in terms of infrastructure availability of electricity.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 27, 2024

Nissan to test African demand for its e-Power hybrid vehicle

Africa is the world's last remaining automotive frontier due to the low level of vehicle ownership.
A Rapidus factory under construction in Chitose, Hokkaido on April 26. The Tokyo-based chipmaker was set up with the aim to realize domestic production of state-of-the-art semiconductors.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
May 6, 2024

Rapidus gearing up for mass production of next-generation chips

About three years before the planned start of mass production, Rapidus faces a host of difficult challenges, especially over technology and profitability.
Japan to start new residency system for foreign workers
Students hoping to work in Japan attend a Japanese class at a job placement company in Hanoi in October 2022.
Japan to regularly accept assistant language teachers from India
Indian assistant language teachers pose for a photo with Japanese Ambassador Keiichi Ono (center) at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Friday.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear
Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
‘Demon Slayer’ movie slashes its own box office records
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” is the first installment in a trilogy that's set to wrap the anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotoke's manga about sword-wielding heroes fighting man-eating demons.
Kyoto University researchers find mechanism behind malignant pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the third-leading cause of cancer death in Japan, has the lowest five-year survival rate of any cancer at just 8.5%.
Amid fossil fuel shift in U.S., hope emerges for India and Japan tie-up on solar
A technician works on the assembly line at a solar panel manufacturing hub on the outskirts of New Delhi last October.
Japan and NATO to launch defense-industrial talks, top envoy says
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte looks at military equipment on the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami stealth frigate during a visit to the MSDF's naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in April.
Three decades and a pile of notebooks: The beat writer who chronicled Ichiro’s career
Reporters and photographers, including long-time baseball beat writer Keizo Konishi, swarm around Ichiro Suzuki during the World Baseball Classic in San Diego in 2009.
Tokyo is the No. 2 choice for international students
The University of Tokyo. International students are increasingly flocking to Asia, with affordability being a particularly important metric.
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.

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