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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 28, 2021

SoftBank nears end of ¥2.5 trillion buyback, imperiling bull run

In March, shares fell even as more money was spent on re-purchases, the overall markets advanced and SoftBank's profit for the March quarter was expected to hit a record.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 27, 2021

China increases scrutiny of companies with new anti-spying rules

New rules allow security authorities to draw up lists of companies and organizations considered susceptible to foreign infiltration and require them to take security measures.
JAPAN
Apr 27, 2021

Tokyo to get SDF-staffed, large-scale vaccination site amid slow rollout

Medically licensed SDF personnel are expected to administer Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines to about 900,000 people age 65 or older living in the capital and neighboring prefectures.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 25, 2021

ASEAN to broker Myanmar talks in bid to end coup bloodshed

The plan is one of the most concrete moves yet aimed at ending months of violence since a Feb. 1 coup, which has seen the military regime kill hundreds of pro-democracy protesters.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Apr 25, 2021

Seth Sulkin: 'Having risk-averse banks with risk-averse venture capitalists makes success extremely difficult in Japan'

The CEO of commercial real estate development firm Pacifica Capital highlights the importance of switching lanes when external circumstances change.
BUSINESS
Apr 24, 2021

No holiday mood as Japan virus emergency set to hit tourism and shopping hard

The emergency, set to last from Sunday to May 11, is expected to dramatically impact industries that were hopeful ahead of the usually bountiful Golden Week holidays.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2021

After tech crackdown, Xi looking to tap Chinese firms' wealth of data

Beijing is pouring money into digital infrastructure, with the goal of positioning China as a leader in transforming the world economy within decades.
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2021

Suga's push to raise minimum wage faces uphill battle amid pandemic

There is stiff opposition to the plan from small and midsize firms worried about their survival, and from ruling party lawmakers fearing a political backlash.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Apr 22, 2021

Despite ‘comfort women’ ruling, Tokyo-Seoul relations expected to remain tense

A South Korean court's reversal on a previous “comfort women” ruling may be seen as a win for Japan, but Tokyo is not celebrating just yet.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 22, 2021

Will the Suga-Biden summit provoke China?

Based on my observations, global media coverage of the Suga-Biden summit meeting in Washington was rather favorable. Walter Russell Mead, for example, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s visit was “hailed in both countries as a major success,” and “The alliance...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 22, 2021

Hong Kong activists retreat as China-style justice comes to their city

On March 23, a Hong Kong High Court judge denied former Democratic Party lawmaker Andrew Wan’s bail appeal and sent him back to Lai Chi Kok prison.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 21, 2021

Ohio police kill Black teenage girl seen threatening others with knife

The incident, sparking street protests in Ohio's largest city, came as the U.S. was focused on the guilty verdict in the George Floyd case.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 21, 2021

Ahead of Biden's climate summit, U.S. lawmakers relaunch 'Green New Deal'

Initially introduced in 2019, the nonbinding resolution seeks to eliminate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions within a decade and transition the economy away from fossil fuels.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 21, 2021

Jury finds ex-cop Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd

The 12-member jury found Chauvin, 45, guilty of all charges including second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 21, 2021

Chad leader Idriss Deby, a key Western ally, killed in battle

Deby visited troops on the front line Monday after rebels based across the northern frontier in Libya advanced hundreds of kilometers south toward the capital, N'Djamena.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 20, 2021

COVID-19 once spared the young. Now more are being hospitalized.

The new variants of the virus are more contagious and appear to hit young people harder than the original strain that emerged more than a year ago.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 19, 2021

Beijing huddles with friends as it seeks to fracture U.S.-led 'clique'

China is shoring up ties with autocratic partners like Russia and Iran while using sanctions and threats to try to fracture the alliances the United States is building against it.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Apr 19, 2021

Frostini is a sweet cat who's ready to be served some love

Frostini isn't frosty, he's just shy. Like the drink that shares his name, however, he can provide that little touch of class after a hard day's work.
A fire caused by a gas pipeline leak rages in Puchong, Selangor on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 2, 2025

Scores hospitalized after huge fire at gas pipeline in Malaysia

Authorities said the blaze in the town of Puchong, on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur, had been extinguished by midafternoon.
U.S. President Donald Trump unveils new U.S. tariffs at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 3, 2025

Japan promises 'bold and speedy' response to Trump’s surprise 24% tariffs

The duty rate for Japanese products is the "worst among the scenarios that had been imagined" by the market.
Red Bull driver Yuki Tsunoda is a lot calmer than he was as a hotheaded rookie in 2021.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Apr 4, 2025

How Yuki Tsunoda’s new attitude helped him land a seat with Red Bull

Those close to Tsunoda are adamant that Red Bull is getting a new and improved version of the hotheaded rookie from 2021.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average after the close of trading on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange after the closing bell on Friday.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Apr 5, 2025

Recession trade engulfs Wall Street on tariff fight

Traders are pricing in what increasingly looks like a negative-feedback loop as Trump indicates he’s not going to back down.
Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda competes during the qualifying session of the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Apr 5, 2025

Tsunoda struggles in first qualifying with Red Bull as Verstappen takes pole

Tsunoda will start 14th at Suzuka Circuit on Sunday after a scruffy lap in the second qualifying stage, while his teammate grabbed a surprise pole.
People hold up a South Korean flag near the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 7, 2025

South Korea sets June 3 for presidential election: Yonhap

The country's Constitutional Court ruled that Yoon undermined the military’s political neutrality by sending troops to parliament to confront ordinary citizens.
Wall Street banks, under political pressure and tempted by short-term gains, are abandoning climate commitments and pouring billions into fossil fuels, risking both environmental catastrophe and massive future economic losses.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2025

Wall Street will regret helping the world burn

For an industry in the business of money, it sure has a funny way of ensuring its destruction. 
Ofunato Mayor Kiyoshi Fuchigami speaks during a news conference on Monday.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2025

Ofunato forest fire declared extinguished

Officials said Monday that there was no longer a risk of the fire breaking out again.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he attends the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington on Tuesday. Trump allowed new tariffs — including a 24% levy on Japan — to go into effect as scheduled on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 9, 2025

Trump's tariff gambit leaves Asia stunned and scrambling

Tariffs take time to actually affect prices and trade flows, but financial markets are already responding to the possibility of severe economic dislocation.
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.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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.

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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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