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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 14, 2017
China's Xi pledges $14.5 billion for 'Belt and Road' globalization initiative
President Xi Jinping laid the framework for Chinese-style globalization and his ambition to lead it in a speech inaugurating his cornerstone diplomatic initiative for a new Silk Road.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 13, 2017
Australia says China is conducting extensive espionage
China is conducting extensive espionage against Australia, Canberra's most senior defense official said on Friday in a rare public accusation against its largest trading partner.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
May 12, 2017
Macron win seen ending Japan's record sale of French bonds
Like any good love affair, it has had its ups and downs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 12, 2017
SoftBank may seek merger talks between Sprint, T-Mobile US
SoftBank Group may propose to T-Mobile US that the American mobile carrier enter merger talks with SoftBank's U.S. subsidiary Sprint, sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 11, 2017
In financial straits, shrines turn to luxury property development
Shinto elders at the centuries-old Unesco World Heritage Site of Shimogamo Shrine upset neighbors when they bulldozed a swath of old Kyoto forest to build an apartment complex with units selling for more than $2 million apiece.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 11, 2017
EGW buys Tokyo office tower for ¥30 billion with Korean investor funds
EGW Asset Management Inc., which manages about ¥200 billion ($1.8 billion) in assets, has acquired an office building in central Tokyo for about ¥30 billion.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 7, 2017
Faster investing, stronger private-sector cooperation key to ADB’s support of regional growth: Nakao
Speedier investing and stronger cooperation with the private sector are key for the Asian Development Bank to continue supporting further growth in the Asia-Pacific region, its president says.
BUSINESS
May 1, 2017
Chinese investment in Australia surges 11.7% as deals hit record
Chinese investment in Australia surged 11.7 percent last year to 15.4 billion Australian dollars ($11.5 billion) amid booming demand for agricultural assets and infrastructure, according to a report released Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 27, 2017
Investment funds target firms focusing on job, work environment reform
With the government's drive to create more flexible and effective working environments, investment companies have been setting up funds to invest in companies focusing on job market reforms, including the promotion of women in the workplace.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2017
Japan Post to book first net loss since privatization
Japan Post Holdings Co. is set to fall into the red for the first time since it was privatized in 2007, posting a net loss of about ¥40 billion for the business year that ended March 31, the postal giant announced Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2017
Maverick Beji Sasaki picks a fight with Fujitsu to push takeovers, turnarounds of undervalued firm
Beji Sasaki, a maverick businessman who first challenged Tokyo's status quo four decades ago, says his bidding war with the $13 billion computer giant Fujitsu Ltd. is just the start of his plan to use takeovers to change Japan Inc.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 24, 2017
Japanese map publisher Zenrin's Indian partner in expansion drive
MapmyIndia, the Indian partner of Japan's leading digital mapping firm Zenrin Co., is ramping up investment with plans to spend $30 million — equivalent to its total investment in the last two decades — in the next few years to further consolidate its market leadership in India.
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2017
China's property investment remains robust despite curbs
Real estate investment in China remained robust in the first quarter from a year earlier, official data showed Monday, as the pace of new construction quickened, despite intensified government cooling measures.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 17, 2017
A $165 billion money manager says Japan's stock gloom overdone, predicts surge after geopolitical risks ease
Japanese stocks have been battered so badly that they're too cheap to ignore, says the $165 billion investor Pictet Asset Management Ltd., after the Topix index tumbled to its fifth straight weekly loss.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 11, 2017
Japan dumps record French debt as U.S. bond-selling eases
Holders of U.S. Treasuries can breathe a sigh of relief as Japan's spotlight turns to France.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 4, 2017
Activist hedge fund battles 144-year-old firm to ditch low-return ventures
Katakura Industries Co., a Japanese company founded more than a century ago, is no stranger to reinvention. Once a silk producer, it has diversified into making underwear, manufacturing fire engines, operating shopping malls and even bee-keeping.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 21, 2017
SoftBank invests $300 million in WeWork: source
SoftBank Group Corp. invested $300 million in WeWork Cos., a person familiar with the matter said, an influx of cash that values the New York-based co-working giant at more than $17 billion.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 17, 2017
The $3 billion biotech firm that almost wasn't finds new life
The biggest biotechnology company in Japan almost didn't get built.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 13, 2017
Hitachi looks to boost U.S. rail business amid Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure blitz
Hitachi Ltd. is aiming to expand its rail business in the U.S. by bidding for streetcar and light-rail projects as President Donald Trump pledges to spend as much as $1 trillion to upgrade infrastructure across the country.
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2017
SEC freezes assets in SoftBank-Fortress insider-trading probe
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday it froze the assets of certain traders in a suspected insider trading scheme involving more than $3.6 million in profits related to the takeover Fortress Investment Group by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp.
America wasn’t made for walking, and it’s killing them
A 2010 study found that U.S. adults averaged 5,117 steps daily and that this was lower than the averages found in similar studies in Switzerland, western Australia and Japan.
Rare sequel to 'My Neighbor Totoro' to play at Cannes
A screening of "Mei and the Baby Cat Bus," which is being billed as a "mini-sequel" to the Studio Ghibli classic "My Neighbor Totoro," is set to take place at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Saudi crown prince seeks soft power in game hub Japan
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomes Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last July.
Japan survey finds 30% of student interns experience sexual harassment
The proportion of recent graduates in Japan who have worked as interns have experienced sexual harassment during their internship was 30.1%, according to a labor ministry survey, up 4.6 percentage points from the previous survey in fiscal 2020.
Seoul's eclectic Art OnO shines light on Japan's artists and galleries
Art OnO, which took place from April 19 to 21 in Seoul, featured a modest number of 36 participating galleries from 15 countries.
Want to be a voice actor? Stay 'true to the character'
SungWon Cho is a veteran with more than 10 years of experience portraying characters in anime, cartoons and video games.
Local theater in Japan is more than a hobby — it’s a community
Japan Times contributor Laura Pollacco (front right) was offered the role of one of her all-time favorite heroines, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in the Tokyo International Players’ production of “Pride and Prejudice.”
Can AI-generated inventions be patented? A Tokyo court says no.
The Tokyo court's ruling comes amid ongoing debates on how to regulate generative AI and is part of a transnational class action lawsuit.
Massimo Bottura: 'The Japanese let ingredients express themselves'
Italian chef and restaurateur Massimo Bottura is increasingly focusing on passing on his knowledge to chefs such as Antonio Iacoviello.

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