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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 4, 2017

Toshiba looks to build new Yokkaichi chip plant without partner Western Digital, further fueling feud

Toshiba Corp. is moving forward with plans to build a new memory chip plant without partner Western Digital Corp., another escalation of the fight over the future of their joint venture.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 2, 2017

Daiichi Sankyo settles U.S. lawsuits over intestinal damage from blood-pressure drugs, paying $300 million

Daiichi Sankyo Inc. has settled thousands of lawsuits alleging its blood-pressure drugs caused intestinal damage, bringing to $339 million the amount the drugmaker has paid over the medicines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 27, 2017

LMVH profit jumps as Japan, Europe join China luxury rebound

LVMH's first-half profit grew at the fastest rate since 2011 as Japan and Europe joined a luxury industry recovery led by China, showing double-digit sales increases in the second quarter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 25, 2017

Alphabet adds to cash pile despite higher costs and antitrust fine

Alphabet Inc. reported a 21 percent jump in quarterly revenue Monday, maintaining a growth rate that is rarely seen among companies its size and suggesting the big sales gains enjoyed recently by the other internet firms are not done yet.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2017

What a London cabbie learned from Uber

Uber has delivered a much-needed wake-up call to London's taxi industry.
EDITORIALS
Jul 21, 2017

Learning from lapses in corporate governance

Japanese companies have been given the tools to improve their corporate governance, now it's up to them to learn how to use these tools effectively.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 18, 2017

UFC plots growing presence in Asia, beyond

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is returning to Japan after a two-year absence on Sept. 23, when it will host UFC Fight Night Japan at Saitama Super Arena.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 17, 2017

Uber's board, shareholders rumored to have discussed sale of shares to SoftBank, others

Uber Technologies Inc. shareholders and its board, led by early backer Benchmark, are rumored to have discussed selling some of their shares to Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. and other potential investors.
EDITORIALS
Jul 15, 2017

Volvo's electrifying decision

Volvo, long at the forefront of automobile innovation, demonstrates this once again by saying it's going fully electric.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 8, 2017

Japan's used goods sell big in Southeast Asia

Japanese companies are turning the nation's secondhand goods into cash in Southeast Asia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2017

Job-changing reaches a seven-year high as Japan Inc. scrambles to cope with labor shortages

Japan's labor shortage has pushed the number of people changing jobs and employers during their career to its highest level since the global financial crisis, as companies scramble for workers with experience amid a rapidly-aging economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2017

Ukraine's Cyber Police seize servers of accounting software firm after global malware attack

Ukrainian police on Tuesday seized the servers of an accounting software firm suspected of spreading a malware virus that crippled computer systems at major companies around the world last week, a senior police official said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 2017

Russia's oligarchs-in-waiting

As the better-known children of Russia's previous generation of oligarchs have steadily left the country, the offspring of Vladimir Putin's cronies have taken their place.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 28, 2017

Toshiba deal repeats Japan Inc.'s old mistakes

With their persistent interference, the bureaucrats are hurting, not helping Japan's prospects.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 27, 2017

What Japan Inc. should learn from Takata

Now, as Tokyo sorts out the biggest failure in postwar Japanese manufacturing, it's all too possible its political and corporate cultures will learn little from 'Takatagate.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 20, 2017

Toshiba board, CEO blasted by Glass Lewis for poor governance

Proxy adviser Glass Lewis & Co. blasted Toshiba Corp.'s board for poor governance amid repeated scandals and recommended investors vote against all directors at the company's shareholders meeting this month.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2017

Boeing launches new version of 737 with flurry of orders at subdued Paris air show

Boeing unveiled a new version of its bestselling 737 aircraft on Monday, injecting life into a faltering civil aviation market as French President Emmanuel Macron flew in to open the world's biggest air show in Paris.
WORLD
Jun 19, 2017

Google toughens measures to remove and restrict visibility of extremist content on YouTube

Alphabet Inc.'s Google will implement more measures to identify and remove terrorist or violent extremist content from its video sharing platform YouTube, the company said in a blog post Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 15, 2017

Line plans smart speaker to challenge Amazon, Google

Line Corp. said Thursday it plans to focus more on artificial intelligence, saying AI-related services will be the next big thing after the smartphone boom.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2017

Uber leadership team at crossroads as director steps down for sexist comment

Uber Technologies Inc. director David Bonderman said on Tuesday that he has resigned from the company's board following a remark he made during a staff meeting that was widely seen as offensive to women.
Transport ministry issues warning to Haneda Airport operator
The operator of Tokyo's Haneda Airport has been warned by the government over its inappropriate transactions.
Xi defiance pays off as Trump meets most China trade demands
Then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visits a school in South Gate, California, in February 2012. Experts say Xi won big in his standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Nissan shares surge as carmaker set to cut 20,000 jobs in huge overhaul
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars and car parts imported to the U.S. have been painful to most global brands, but crippling in Nissan’s case.
Japan might be playing long game in U.S. tariff talks
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House earlier this year. Ishiba said Monday that farmers won't be sacrificed for automakers in Japan's tariff negotiations with the U.S.
More details emerge about stabbing near Tokyo University metro station
Yoshitaka Toda, the suspect in Wednesday's knife attack at Todaimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line, leaves a police station in the Japanese capital the same day for a pre-detention medical examination.
Sculpted waves, sleek updos: Showa hairstyles are back in fashion
The larger-than-life hairstyles of Japan's Showa Era are unmistakable — and they're making a comeback.
Japan should produce its own AI defense solutions, Sakana AI CEO says
Sakana AI CEO David Ha speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Nissan gets ‘wake-up call’ with $4.5 billion annual net loss
Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa in Tokyo as the company releases its results
Consumption tax set to dominate Upper House election debate
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan set for bigger role in Philippines after SDF’s debut in key drills
Philippine Army Brig. Gen. Michael Logico, who was involved in managing the latest iteration of the Balikatan U.S.-Philippine drills, told The Japan Times that he expects military ties with Japan to surge even further once Tokyo ratifies a key visiting-forces agreement with Manila.

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