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BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Jun 24, 2021

Corporate governance issues haunt troubled Toshiba as it faces off with investors

Amid scandal, a shareholders meeting on Friday is set to be a showdown between Toshiba's board, who are pushing to retain Chairman Osamu Nagayama, and investors who want him out.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2021

Boeing faces rocky path to gaining approval for return of 737 Max in China

Trade power tensions, regulatory hurdles and attempts by the West to counter Chinese competition are delaying the move.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 24, 2021

‘The Door into Summer’: Some doors are best left closed

An orphaned genius travels to the future and back in Takahiro Miki's treacly sci-fi, “The Door Into Summer,” based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2021

Europe is finally hitting Google where it hurts most

Forget the $9 billion of fines that came before. They barely scratched the surface. For Google, this is the big one.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 22, 2021

Carlos Ghosn looms over Nissan annual meeting years after arrest

Shareholders at the automaker's annual meeting Tuesday repeatedly questioned executives about the events surrounding Ghosn's 2018 arrest.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society / FOCUS
Jun 22, 2021

Can we be friends? Dating apps say sex isn't everything in a post-pandemic world

Amorous entanglements aren't uppermost in the minds of many people emerging from long periods of pandemic isolation. Instead, they crave the friendships and social groups.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2021

Workplace and university vaccinations ramp up in Japan

The government had received applications from 3,479 sites to function as vaccination venues as of Friday, with nearly 14 million people estimated to be immunized under the framework.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 18, 2021

Inside Hong Kong's Apple Daily, China's besieged liberal media icon

Thursday's early-morning raid by 500 police officers was a shock, not only to Apple Daily staffers but to journalists throughout China's freest city.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 17, 2021

Hong Kong arrests Apple Daily staff using security law

Hundreds of police officers descended on the newspaper's Hong Kong headquarters, media reports said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 16, 2021

Regeneron drug reduces COVID-19 patient deaths in large study

The results suggest there would be six fewer deaths over 28 days for every 100 patients given the company's casirivimab and imdevimab combination of monoclonal antibodies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2021

Airlines plan to plow billions into flying taxis

Flying taxis have moved a step closer to becoming a fixture buzzing across the world’s urban skyscapes after startups in the U.K. and Brazil made commercial breakthroughs and a closely watched effort was unveiled in Los Angeles.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Jun 12, 2021

The secret to this sake’s flavor? Aging it underwater

What started as an experiment has turned into a way for Otokoyama Honten brewery to recover from the 2011 Tohoku triple disaster.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 11, 2021

Indians still battling impacts of COVID-19 now burdened with medical debt

Even before the pandemic struck, India's out-of-pocket expenses on health care were among the highest in the world.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2021

Nomura prime brokerage cuts seen sparing little in U.S. and Europe

Word of the retreat is already spreading on Wall Street, as some of Nomura's prime brokerage employees in New York start to explore other job opportunities.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jun 9, 2021

How China is tightening its grip on Hong Kong’s media scene

The moves by the city's Beijing-appointed government have raised more questions about Hong Kong's viability as a financial hub.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 8, 2021

Websites rumble back to life after Fastly-linked outage

High traffic websites including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal, Spotify and the New York Times were listed as experiencing problems by outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2021

Apple's new 'private relay' feature will not be available in China

Apple's decision to withhold the feature in China is the latest in a string of compromises the company has made on privacy in a country that accounts for nearly 15% of its revenue.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jun 8, 2021

Big Tech watches tide turning on taxes after its years of plenty

In the current system, the likes of Facebook, Amazon.com and Google have paid effective tax rates which appeared on a long, steady march toward zero.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 7, 2021

'Nihonbashi Valley': Tokyo’s old trade quarters transforming into a startup hub

The financial district home to the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Bank of Japan is undergoing a makeover, luring dozens of life science and space technology startups.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 6, 2021

Olympics gave hope to Japan’s LGBTQ activists. But old prejudices die hard.

Even a modest goal of labeling discrimination 'unacceptable” has proved too much for conservative lawmakers, who have blocked consideration of a bill by the Diet.
BUSINESS
Jun 6, 2021

Wood shortage and soaring prices threaten lumber industry in Japan

With demand rising in the United States and China, where the national economies are picking up, lumber prices have skyrocketed and Japanese firms are struggling to procure material.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 5, 2021

‘Waffles + Mochi’ teaches kids how to eat — with gusto

The new food-travel show from Netflix and the Obamas' Higher Ground takes kids on a global journey to learn about ingredients and how to cook with them.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jun 4, 2021

Chinese drugmakers take aim at lucrative U.S. anti-cancer market

In recent years, medicines that free the immune system to attack tumors have become blockbusters in a $150 billion global market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jun 3, 2021

Global corporate tax crackdown gets ethical investor boost

Many funds have said they are escalating talks with companies over their tax planning and, if necessary, will dump shares.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 3, 2021

From Nigeria to Brazil 'halo' crops reap pandemic profits

Increasingly health conscious consumers have given an already buoyant global spice market a further boost during the pandemic, heightening investor interest in the sector.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
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