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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2020

In world of video game development, chronic overtime is endemic

Polish game developer CD Projekt Red this week asked all of its employees to work six-day weeks in the lead-up to the November release of Cyberpunk 2077.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 1, 2020

Tokyo trading halted due to hardware failure

Trading was suspended from the start of the morning session at 9 a.m., and the exchange is preparing to resume trading Friday by restarting the overall system.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 1, 2020

Japan's mobile phone carriers brace for further intervention by Suga

Even before becoming prime minister, Suga had intervened in the cell phone market in an attempt to lower fees.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 1, 2020

Docomo deal signals more unwinding of 'parent-child' listings in Japan

After years of complaints from corporate governance experts, the wave of consolidation or sales of these units is gathering pace.
Japan Times
LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Oct 1, 2020

New hotel brings piece of Hawaii to Yokohama

A bit of Hawaii has come to Japan with the opening of The Kahala Hotel & Resort Yokohama on Sept. 23 in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai 21 district.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 1, 2020

COVID-19 presents crucial moment for gender diversity in Japan

With the pandemic changing the way we work, the International Conference for Women in Business says women must now be brought to the fore.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2020

How the world’s most expensive skyscraper deal turned sour

The background of the investors behind the record-breaking deal drew as much interest as the transaction itself.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 29, 2020

NTT to take mobile unit Docomo private for ¥4 trillion

The buyout is expected be the largest tender offer in history for a Japanese company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 28, 2020

ANA sees largest intraday drop in Tokyo trading since April 1

ANA Holdings Inc. tumbled as much as 8.5 percent in Tokyo trading Monday, its largest intraday drop since April 1, after a report the airline is considering raising ¥200 billion ($1.9 billion) through a public share offering.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 28, 2020

Saudi Arabia sends blue ammonia green fuel to Japan in world first

Japan aims to be a world leader in the use of hydrogen, which is contained in ammonia, as an energy source.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 25, 2020

This is why COVID-19 may be life-threatening for some patients

The common thread in the research is the lack of a substance called interferon that helps orchestrate the body's defense against viral pathogens.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 25, 2020

Facebook's Oversight Board plans to launch just before U.S. election

The board will initially review only appeals over posts that Facebook has taken down, rather than content the company decides to leave up.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 24, 2020

Volkswagen aims to turn legions of SUV buyers into electric converts

The ID.4 electric vehicle will compete with the likes of Toyota's RAV4, Honda's CR-V and Subaru's Forester.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 24, 2020

Promoters push online concerts in an effort to save Japan's live house culture

Kaala, a group of independent music promoters, has launched a concert series called Korona Nights to keep outlets for underground musical expression alive.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 23, 2020

Double whammy for minorities key in vaccine race, Fauci says

There is a toxic combination for minorities that translates into higher COVID-19 hospitalization rates than the population at large, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2020

China unlikely to approve Oracle and Walmart's TikTok deal, state media says

Beijing is unlikely to approve an "unfair" deal Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. said they have struck with ByteDance over the future of video-streaming app TikTok, state-backed newspaper Global Times said in an editorial.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2020

Microsoft’s Bethesda acquisition paves way for Netflix of gaming

The software giant aims to use the draw of popular Bethesda titles such as The Elder Scrolls and Fallout to attract subscribers to its Xbox Game Pass service.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2020

China’s threats of war push Taiwan to boost U.S. economic links

The government of Tsai Ing-wen is aiming to provide more incentives for U.S. policymakers to intervene in any potential conflict.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2020

The 737 MAX debacle won’t be the end of Boeing

Is Boeing Co. capable of making commercial aircraft at all?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 21, 2020

Jack Ma’s Ant Group lifts IPO funding target to $35 billion

Ant's simultaneous listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai may mark the biggest IPO ever, topping Saudi Aramco's record $29 billion sale.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan

Podcast

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

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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