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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 3, 2022

Twitter executive says moving fast on moderation, as harmful content surges

Elon Musk's Twitter is leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favoring restrictions on distribution.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 2, 2022

Activist fund that took on Toshiba targets $2 billion Japan firm

Singapore-based 3D Investment Partners is seeking to appoint four outside board members at Fuji Soft, a Tokyo-listed software firm.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 2, 2022

Elon Musk’s Neuralink hopes to implant chips in human brains within six months

The firm's main product for the brain consists of a tiny device and electrode-laced wires, along with a robot that carves out a piece of a person's skull and implants the wiring.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Smart Countryside
Dec 1, 2022

Is it a bus or a taxi? For some small Japanese towns, the answer is both

Hybrid mobility services are helping cater to Japan's older citizens, many of whom live in areas where traditional forms of public transport are lacking.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 29, 2022

Elon Musk says Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter

The billionaire attacked the iPhone maker with a flurry of tweets Monday, saying the company had cut its Twitter advertising and threatened to bump the social network from Apple's app store.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Nov 28, 2022

Chuhai Labs takes a democratic approach to running its game studio

A former Nintendo employee takes what he learned from the gaming behemoth and aims to improve upon it at his own game studio.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2022

Japan's Olympus says moving from asset sales towards doing deals

After two decades in human resources roles, incoming Stefan Kaufmann will become one of the few foreign CEOs leading a major Japanese company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2022

SoftBank’s quiet finance chief Yoshimitsu Goto to take Son’s place in spotlight

Goto will likely lead earnings briefings in the future to give Son more time to focus on chip design unit Arm's planned initial public offering and other priorities, the firm said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2022

Zuckerberg says ‘sorry’ as Meta begins slashing over 11,000 jobs

The company said that while reductions will happen across the company, its recruiting team will be disproportionately affected.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 8, 2022

Tide turns as more governments oppose rush to mine deep sea for valuable metals

A U.N.-affiliated authority is convening in Jamaica to fast track regulations that could allow the mining of fragile and biodiverse deep sea ecosystems for valuable metals as soon as 2024.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 5, 2022

Twitter cuts spur concerns about U.S. midterm elections and human rights

Elon Musk's broad-based cuts at the social media site are leading current and former employees to question whether it will have the resources to effectively moderate content.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Regional voices: Chubu
Oct 31, 2022

40 years on, Suzuki aims to recover 50% market share in India

With about 3,400 new car dealers throughout the country, the firm boasts the largest sales network in the industry in India.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 23, 2022

Who gets the last word on Steve Jobs? He might.

Some historians are wondering if Steve Jobs' widow is trying to frame the legacy of her late husband, a complicated and transformational figure who was shadowed by his flaws.
Players compete against one another during the Just Dance event at the Olympic Esports Week in Singapore in June.
MORE SPORTS / FOCUS
Sep 24, 2023

China hosts esports’ biggest moment with Tencent at the wheel

The once-in-four-years Asian Games, effectively a regional Olympics, is the first time that competitive video games will be eligible for medals.
Packages to be delivered on Amazon Prime Day in New York in 2022
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 27, 2023

Why Amazon’s online marketplace drew FTC scrutiny

The FTC’s case against Amazon is an important test of whether Lina Khan’s interpretation of the law will hold up in court.
A Ukrainian drone pilot, call sign Darwin, operating a first-person-view, or FPV, drone on a test flight near Kupiansk, Ukraine, on Aug. 5.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 1, 2023

Ukraine’s war of drones runs into an obstacle: China

Ukraine's latest fight is one over global electronics supply chains that run through China.
Hiroshi Mikitani, chairman and CEO of Rakuten Group, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo in May.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 17, 2023

Rakuten rally from record lows clouded by looming bond deadlines

The most pressing task now for Rakuten is to raise funds for a wall of more than $5 billion of bonds due in the next two years.
Various aspects of Japan’s Sado Island — noh, taiko drumming, business investment and cultural regeneration projects — weave their way into “L’ile d’Or Kanemu-Jima,” with characters and cultures coming together in a melting pot of real-world political problems, theater styles and dark humor.
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 20, 2023

Cultures collide in Ariane Mnouchkine's Sado Island-inspired play

The Kyoto Prize-winning French theater director's latest production, "L’ile d’Or Kanemu-Jima," draws from her experiences in Japan, both old and new.
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo atop a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 20, 2023

‘Sell TSMC, buy ASML’ gains traction as China-Taiwan risks grow

Because TSMC’s operations are mostly in Taiwan, it faces heightened geopolitical hazards. ASML, meanwhile, stands to benefit from the fragmentation.
An assembly engineer works on a TWINSCAN DUV lithography system at ASML in Veldhoven, Netherlands, in June.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 21, 2023

The multimillion-dollar machines at the center of the U.S.-China rivalry

Complex lithography machines that print intricate circuitry on computer chips are at the heart of Washington's tough new measures on Beijing.
A Cruise driverless car operating in San Francisco. On Tuesday, California regulators ordered Cruise, a General Motors subsidiary, to stop its driverless taxi service in San Francisco after a series of traffic incidents.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 25, 2023

California sidelines Cruise's driverless cars, citing safety risk

The U.S. state suspended Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment, saying the company had "misrepresented" the safety of the technology.
 Tesla Model 3 vehicles at the company's factory in Shanghai in January 2020
BUSINESS
Nov 5, 2023

Cooling EV sales have Tesla, GM and Ford rethinking investments

While the battery-powered vehicle market is still expanding, the pace of growth has slowed considerably.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 14, 2023

No link to bullying in Takarazuka theater actress's suicide: panel

Although there was no evidence of harassment in the all-female musical theater troupe, the actress was most likely under immense pressure, the panel said.
Rakuten Securities President Yuji Kusunoki
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2023

Rakuten Securities sees payoff from free trading plan after a year

The firm plans to make up for the decrease in domestic stock trading commission fee revenues by expanding its financial services such as margin trading.
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."
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2023

Listed firms in Japan work on fostering female managers

An increasing number of publicly traded Japanese companies are actively fostering female managers to assume leadership roles in the future.
Shareholders arrive to attend Toshiba's extraordinary shareholders meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 22, 2023

Toshiba shareholders approve plan to go private next month

The decision will allow a consortium led by JIP to buy all of Toshiba's remaining shares, marking the end of its decadeslong history as a public firm.
Yasuhide Uno, Usen-Next Holdings CEO, has transformed his father’s company into Netflix’s biggest competitor in Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 28, 2023

Reluctant CEO becomes billionaire at Netflix rival in Japan

Initially wanting nothing to do with his father's cable music company, Yasuhide Uno's faith in video streaming helped him rebuild it for a new era.
A Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. semiconductor wafer. Osaka-based Fuso Chemical, which has gone into debt rather than raise prices, counts TSMC as one of its clients.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 4, 2023

Key maker of chip materials goes into debt rather than raise prices

Osaka-based Fuso Chemical is bearing the cost to help churn out bigger volumes of sophisticated chips without asking customers for more.
Since starting out as a venue for short, silly lip-syncing videos, TikTok has emerged as an incubator for consumer trends, with millions of people trying on clothes and reviewing products.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 13, 2023

TikTok Shop sees early success, taking aim at giant Amazon

In a sign of how seriously Amazon is taking TikTok, the company cut deals with Pinterest, Meta and Snapchat to let users shop without leaving those apps.

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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
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