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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2017

Electric carmakers have an Africa problem

Volkswagen's recent failure to lock in the price of cobalt for five years points to a serious problem with the optimistic projections of an electric vehicle revolution.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2017

Rosneft to take control of Kurdistan oil pipeline

Russian energy major Rosneft has agreed to take control of the main oil pipeline in Iraq's Kurdistan, further boosting its role as the main international investor in the semi-autonomous region.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 19, 2017

WPP alliance dead with or without Bain deal, Asatsu-DK CEO says

Asatsu-DK Inc.'s chief executive officer said he is determined to sever an alliance with top stockholder WPP PLC, seven months after the world's largest advertising agency called on share owners to vote him out.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017

Toyota targets 1,000-km driving range with fuel cell concept car

Toyota Motor Corp. is set to unveil a fuel cell concept car that aims to offer 50 percent more driving range than its current hydrogen-powered sedan in a technology push that defies a rising wave of battery-powered vehicles.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 18, 2017

How a homemade tool helped North Korea's missile program

In 2009, a pop video from North Korea celebrated a new national hero — one that outside experts would later realize was at the heart of the secretive state's banned nuclear and missile programs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017

Airbus stake in Bombardier C Series jet seen putting Boeing in catch-up mode

Airbus SE's acquisition of a majority stake in Bombardier Inc.'s C Series plane threatens to leave Boeing Co. trailing in a looming race to develop a new generation of more advanced short-haul jets.
Oct 16, 2017

vKirirom Pte. Ltd. succeeded in fund collecting 5.3 million US dollars in total from angel round

vKirirom Pte Ltd. (Singapore, CEO: Takeshi Izuka), which is an Asia unifying holding company that runs vKirirom Nature City and also holds A2A town (Cambodia) Co.,Ltd that runs vKirirom Pine Resort and Kirirom Institute of Technology(KIT), has succeeded in collecting total of 5.3million US dollars through...
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Oct 15, 2017

Keeping an eye on new gadgets

Haro, the cute robot mascot of the anime series 'Mobile Suit Gundam,' is about to get real.
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Oct 13, 2017

Kobe Steel cheating scandal driven by competition to improve metals, especially for automakers

Behind the scandal engulfing Kobe Steel Ltd. over the falsification of data for some of the materials it supplied is a harsh reality for Japanese steel companies: the need to provide higher and higher quality metals to compete.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS,Decision 2017
Oct 10, 2017

Yuriko Koike’s tactics fail to inspire hope as Lower House election kicks off, analysts say

Just hours before his announcement last month that he would dissolve the Lower House for a snap election, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was blindsided by his biggest political adversary of late: Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike. The telegenic, populist governor had upstaged Abe by announcing that she would create...
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BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 10, 2017

Political risk seeps into yen trade as Japan's Abe faces popular upstart in October election

It's been five years since politics captured much attention from the foreign-exchange world in Japan, but traders are now gaming out potential scenarios for the yen after the Oct. 22 general election.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 10, 2017

Kobe Steel's admission over falsified data sends shock waves through manufacturers across Japan

Revelations renew concerns about the integrity of Japanese manufacturers, and follow scandals involving rupturing Takata air bags and unauthorized inspections at Nissan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Oct 7, 2017

Monk Kaishun Nishigaya's voyage from Japan to Seattle, Alaska and Saipan

Nishigaya was offered a resident ministry at Seattle Nichiren Buddhist Church and, undeterred by the 14-day journey by ship to reach the United States, snapped it up.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 7, 2017

'Me': Novel explores the psychology of the telephone scam

Charles De Wolf's new understated-but-excellent translation of 2010's "Ore Ore" is sure to bring novelist Tomoyuki Hoshino to a wider audience. "Me" is a bizarre, compelling — and at times confusing — novel, which Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe praised for its "literary thought." Oe awarded the novel...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2017

82-year-old glassmaker Ohara eyes future in next-generation battery market

Ohara Inc. sees batteries playing a bigger role in its future.
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2017

U.S. judge dismisses criminal charge in Toyota sudden acceleration case

A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed a criminal charge against Toyota Motor Corp. after the Japanese automaker completed three years of monitoring under a $1.2 billion settlement in which it admitted to misleading the public about sudden unintended acceleration in its vehicles.
EDITORIALS
Oct 5, 2017

Yet another U.S. mass shooting

The Las Vegas massacre has shocked America, but will it prompt politicians to tighten U.S. gun control laws?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Oct 5, 2017

Carlos Ghosn's protege faces first crisis with 'shocking' Nissan Japan recall

Carlos Ghosn, one of the auto industry's most celebrated turnaround artists, saved Nissan Motor Co. by managing himself out of numerous tight spots. Now his hand-picked successor faces a big test of his own, just six-months into his tenure as Nissan's chief executive officer.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 4, 2017

Supercar's 'Three Out Change!!' may be the most stunning debut in Japanese rock history

The years 1997 and 1998 were a watershed in Japanese music. It was the dizzying peak that marked the point between the relentlessly climbing music sales that preceded and the mostly unbroken decline that followed. It also saw the 21st century begin to take shape, with artists such as Hikaru Utada, Ayumi...

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight