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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2021

Deserted factories in Nanjing show how China's electric car boom went too far

Scores of firms have fallen by the wayside, unable to raise the crazy amounts of capital needed to make automobiles at scale.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 17, 2021

U.S. and France clash over surprise Australia submarine deal

The French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, was blunt, saying his nation, whose friendship with the U.S. dates to the American Revolutionary War, felt 'stabbed in the back.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 5, 2021

Does Didi's crash point to the future of U.S.-China financial frictions?

While the rivals are said by some to be in the midst of a 'new Cold War,' some financial businesses linking the two are thriving.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Aug 31, 2021

Why the U.S.-China conflict is threatening the future of Wall Street

Both sides have introduced measures affecting the other's operations, but care must be taken to manage escalation.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Aug 3, 2021

Can Japan break away from its 'digital defeat'?

The country's difficulty in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need for careful planning from the government's new digital agency.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2021

Singapore’s angst over expats forces simmering political debate

The government is under pressure to explain its approach right as the country is trying to stoke post-pandemic growth.
Japan Times
Hong Kong report 2021
Jul 30, 2021

Taking The Caravel Group forward into the next generation

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2021

Under siege, China's private education giants take steps to curb fallout

The regulations marked the culmination of a monthslong campaign to rein in the ad spending wars and cut-throat competition that's come to define the sector.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2021

China crackdown rocks investors: ‘Everybody’s in the crosshairs’

With losses in Chinese tech and education exceeding $1 trillion, investors question where regulators might strike next.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jun 8, 2021

NFT interest growing in Japan, but legal worries persist

While the local NFT market is still in its infancy, there has already been a battle among businesses to team up with popular intellectual-property holders.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 26, 2021

Old-school tycoons of Hong Kong are losing to China’s moguls

The past few years have seen a remarkable shift in fortunes between China's tech-savvy moguls and their old-school Hong Kong counterparts.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 25, 2021

Smart rings seen as new frontier for cashless payments

As retailers around seek ways to make it easier to shop seamlessly without touching anything, MTG in Japan is betting its technology can rule them all.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 9, 2021

Likely legal, ‘vaccine passports’ emerge as the next coronavirus divide in U.S.

Around the U.S., businesses, schools and politicians are considering 'vaccine passports” as a path to reviving the economy and getting Americans back to work and play.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2021

The next electric-car battery champion could be European

With Europe expected to lead the world in electric-car sales for a second straight year, a rush to build a battery-supply chain from scratch is playing out across the continent.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 6, 2021

Why shortages of a $1 chip sparked crisis in the global economy

The trouble for the chip industry — and increasingly companies beyond tech, like automakers — is that there aren't enough display drivers to go around.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 1, 2021

Kioxia is said to focus on IPO in next few months

Kioxia could be valued at u00a53.32 trillion in the current market, said Hideki Yasuda, an analyst at Ace Research Institute.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2021

A slow return to agriculture in Fukushima’s evacuated areas

Ten years on from the triple disaster of 2011, farming in the region is tentatively getting back on its feet. But can this growth be sustained?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 12, 2021

Digital piece by Beeple sells for $69 million, blasting crypto art records

The price tag isn't just an unprecedented price for a so-called non-fungible token, it's an unprecedented price for a new artist.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 1, 2021

Biden putting tech — not troops — at center of U.S.-China strategy

The administration is moving to put semiconductors, artificial intelligence and next-generation networks at the heart of U.S. strategy toward Asia, attempting to rally what officials are calling 'techno-democracies” to stand up to China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 24, 2021

A digital firewall in Myanmar, built with guns and wire cutters

The military has repeatedly shut off the internet, isolating a country that had only in the past few years linked to the outside world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2021

Flying taxis are an extremely expensive ride

Despite their cost, air taxis could soon become reality thanks to advances in batteries, software and lightweight materials.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Feb 16, 2021

How McLaren aims to rebuild supercars for the electric era

There's nothing quite like the roar of a revving McLaren engine to set a petrolhead's pulse pounding, or the full-throated scream as it tears across the tarmac.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 26, 2021

The world is dangerously dependent on Taiwan for semiconductors

With carmakers including Volkswagen, Ford and Toyota forced to halt production and idle plants, Taiwan's importance has suddenly become too big to ignore.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2020

Rags to riches: CEO of ¥100 billion startup comes up from the streets

Taihei Kobayashi's story is among the most remarkable to emerge from a small-cap stock boom that's minting fortunes.
Special Supplements
Nov 9, 2020

Tokyo government making efforts to mitigate climate change and meet UN SDGs

The Earth is facing a crisis due to climate change that leads to extreme weather such as torrential rains, intensified typhoon damage and deadly heat waves occurring simultaneously around the world. Reducing emissions is one of the urgent actions that global society must take to address climate change....
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 1, 2020

Rethinking the nation's dependence on Tokyo

As living with COVID-19 becomes more normal and with the risks of other pandemics growing, Japan needs to disperse important agencies and facilities around the country.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 29, 2020

Samsung reports profitable quarter but warns of weaker outlook

Samsung Electronics Co. warned earnings in the current quarter will decline, saying the strong growth in its mobile and memory business that helped third-quarter profits will ease amid intensifying competition and weakening demand.
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
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2020

PlayStation inventor starts new career making robots for no pay

Ken Kutaragi, 70, wants to make affordable robots that can safely move around and do physical work alongside humans in factories and logistics centers.
A pedestrian shares the sidewalk with a food delivery robot in Los Angeles.
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead
Dec 31, 2024

The world needs a pro-human AI agenda

It is both technically feasible and socially desirable to have AI that complements workers, improves our information ecosystem, and strengthens democracy.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
China’s unbeatable new production model export
China is not merely moving more goods; it is exporting a new, ruthlessly efficient production model powered by automation, AI and state-guided industrial optimization.
Trump: The $550 billion pledged by Japan is 'our money'
U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. He told CNBC that investment pledges are like signing bonuses.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Japan swelters as previous heat record melts
A worker tries to cool down a street in central Tokyo Tuesday as wide swaths of the Kanto region sweltered under intense heat. In Gunma Prefecture, the temperature rose 41.8 degrees Celsius, the highest ever recorded in Japan.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Fuji Rock's weekend of surprises was one of its best yet
Radwimps lead singer Yojiro Noda threw himself into the rock band’s Green Stage performance ahead of headliner Vampire Weekend.
How Trump is gaslighting on climate change — with Japan’s help
The Bishu Maru LNG tanker, owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, next to the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas
With a new distillery, Suntory makes a spirited move on gin market
A staff inspects a distillation pot still at Suntory's new Osaka Spirits & Liqueurs Craft Distillery, which will focus on gin production and help Suntory capture a bigger slice of the fast-growing gin market.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.

Podcast

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

Longform

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped
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