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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2020

China is loading up a five-year warning shot to the U.S.

Beijing knows it needs to push its way up and out of a grim economic reality. That should be a worry for competitors aiming at the same space as Chinese companies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 30, 2020

Rejoining Paris deal would be easy for Biden. The hard part is averting climate disaster.

For a U.S. President Joe Biden, rejoining the Paris agreement would be almost as simple as signing an autograph. The hard part would be everything else.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2020

Trump made a promise to save coal in 2016. He couldn’t keep it.

The grim outlook for coal could take a political toll on Trump, whose 2016 victory was propelled by carrying the mining strongholds of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 4, 2020

Honda and GM seek North America alliance to share car platforms

Honda Motor Co. and General Motors Co. are laying the groundwork for a deeper partnership in North America to jointly develop gasoline engines and crossover SUVs, seeking to cut costs as the auto industry moves toward electric vehicles.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 28, 2020

U.S.-China confrontation not a replay of the Cold War

Japan's only path is to uphold the security alliance with the U.S. while keeping relations with China as friendly as possible in order to make money.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Aug 26, 2020

In a second Trump term, Tokyo would need to bolster ties elsewhere

The U.S. president has repeatedly voiced disdain for the existing alliance system, calling allied countries freeloaders that should pay more of its costs.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 26, 2020

Moon risks U.S. rift with China policy, top South Korean opposition lawmaker says

South Korea is caught between maintaining strong ties with China — its biggest trading partner — and the U.S., its main military ally.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Aug 25, 2020

Let's discuss an app dispute

A Bloomberg article dives into a dispute companies are having with Apple and introduces English terminology used in legal disputes.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 22, 2020

This ‘dashi sensei’ helps parents get comfortable making broth from scratch

Mika Kumahara teaches parents how to make simple, all-natural dashi broth they can feed their children.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 19, 2020

SoftBank to dispatch executives to help stricken Oyo

Cuts in Japan by the online hotel operator come as it adapts to a much smaller tourism industry in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 14, 2020

Fortnite maker sues Apple and Google over app store dispute

The disagreement stems from a longstanding Apple App Store rule saying most apps must offer billing through Apple and pay the company 30 percent of revenue.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2020

The global war for 5G heats up

U.S. moves have undermined Huawei's prospects outside China, but their long-term efficacy to constrain China's development and export of 5G technology is uncertain.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 31, 2020

Dollar suffers worst month in a decade

The euro rose the most in a decade this month, the British pound is headed for its best July since 1990, and for the first time this year, every major currency in the world rose against the greenback.
One of Swiss startup Enerdrape’s energy-harvesting panels is seen in this screenshot taken from video posted to the firm's YouTube account.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Aug 17, 2025

A startup is tapping underground parking garages for clean energy

Globally, heating accounts for nearly half of all energy consumption. That could make decarbonizing it a half-trillion-dollar market.
Sakurazaka46, the idol pop outfit formerly known as Keyakizaka46, wrapped up an an 11-night nationwide tour this month.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 29, 2025

Sakurazaka46 wants the world to dance along

The 33-member idol group takes its spectacle-heavy performances on the road — and abroad.
A Citibank branch in Tokyo. Amid a talent war, the New York-based lender tried to convince a senior executive of equity distribution in Tokyo and his junior colleague to stay after they tendered resignations.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2025

Citigroup asks two Japan bankers to rethink leaving in talent war

The negotiations highlight the challenges facing global and local financial firms in Japan to retain top staff and attract newcomers.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping attend the BRICS Summit plenary session in Kazan, Russia, on Oct. 23.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2025

Realism and realpolitik rule Indian foreign policy

A decade from now, there is likely to be heated debate in the United States over “who lost India,” an accounting that may rival the “who lost China?”
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato reaffirmed in a joint statement their commitment to allowing markets to determine currency exchange rates and not targeting them for competitive advantage.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 12, 2025

U.S. and Japan pledge not to manipulate forex for competitive advantage

Tokyo has spent close to $150 billion in the last three years trying to prop up the yen with the last move in July last year.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order directing federal agencies to recommend changes to a temporary visa program used to bring foreign workers to the United States to fill high-skilled jobs during a visit to the world headquarters of Snap-On, a tool manufacturer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on April 18, 2017.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 22, 2025

H-1B workers abroad race to U.S. as Trump order sparks dismay and confusion

Tech companies and banks sent urgent memos to employees, advising them to return before a deadline of 12:01 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Sunday.
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya (center) with other parliament members from the party
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 3, 2025

What’s driving the far-right voters who shook Japanese politics

Sanseito’s slogan is "Japanese First,” and it campaigned on a mix of tax cutting, vaccine skepticism and restrictions on immigration and foreign investment.
An ABB robot at the Sony U.K. Technology Centre in Pencoed, Wales
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2025

SoftBank to buy ABB’s robotics arm in $5.4 billion deal

The Japanese investment firm agreed to take over a business with more than 7,000 employees, which supplies industrial arms and robots.
As horse-trading and speculation surge over  who will be elected the next prime minister in parliament — the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Sanae Takaichi or a possible candidate put forward by a unified opposition — Japan’s next leader will be confronted with a quick succession of key diplomatic events.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 13, 2025

A frenetic diplomatic schedule looms for Japan’s next leader — whomever that may be

Japanese diplomacy has landed in a precarious position following the exit of Komeito from the LDP-led ruling bloc as a spate of summits and meetings loom at the end of this month.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivers remarks on Wednesday on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Washington.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 16, 2025

Bessent says yen will settle if BOJ keeps taking right policies

The statement follows the U.S. treasury secretary's remarks in August that Japan’s central bank was behind the curve in addressing inflation.
Ambassadors for French cosmetics group L'Oreal at the end of a show during Paris Fashion Week on Sept. 29. L'Oreal is set to acquire Kering's fragrance line Creed, as well as rights to develop fragrance and beauty products under Kering's fashion labels under a 50-year exclusive license.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 20, 2025

Kering to sell beauty unit to L'Oreal for $4.66 billion to cut debt, refocus on fashion

New Kering CEO Luca de Meo is moving to refocus the luxury group on its core fashion business.
Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia's president-elect, holds a Bolivian flag during an election night rally following the presidential runoff election in La Paz, Bolivia, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2025

Bolivia's new president rekindles cautious hope for stalled lithium dreams

The country holds the world's largest resources of the ultralight metal used in electric vehicle batteries.
Shohei Ohtani lacks the advantages that made NBA legend Michael Jordan a global icon: a unified mass media landscape, broad commercial appeal and a sport built to show off individuality.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 24, 2025

Why can’t Shohei Ohtani truly be like Michael Jordan?

The challenge begins with baseball itself. The game is played at a high level throughout the Americas and parts of Asia-Pacific, but remains a niche sport elsewhere.
Sanae Takaichi’s selection as Japan’s first female prime minister marks a historic breakthrough for women in politics, but her leadership faces significant challenges from political fragility and critics, both at home and abroad.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 26, 2025

Takaichi’s rise to power and the ‘glass cliff’

Her appointment could prove to be a “glass cliff” as she encounters hypercriticism and the inherent challenges of a shaky coalition.

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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes