Japan-South Korea row may cause lasting economic and security shift, aiding China and North
Escalating tensions between Japan and South Korea, both key U.S. allies in East Asia, threaten to change long-standing economic and security structures in the region across the board, to the potential benefit of China and North Korea, foreign affairs experts have cautioned. As long as ...
Farmers turn to tech as key river in U.S. West faces distress
A drone soared over a blazing hot cornfield in northeastern Colorado on a recent morning, snapping images with an infrared camera to help researchers decide how much water they would give the crops the next day. After a brief, snaking flight above the field, the ...
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Japan Display Inc. said Friday it had developed a negative net worth following a group net loss of ¥83.27 billion ($786 million) for the April-June quarter due to restructuring costs and falling demand for smartphone displays. The company also posted an operating loss of ¥27.48 ...
Fujitsu to introduce system to better reward highly skilled workers
Fujitsu Ltd. plans to introduce a system this fiscal year that better rewards highly skilled workers, Takahito Tokita, president of the electronics firm, said Thursday. The move is aimed at strengthening the company's competitiveness in the hiring market, Tokita said in his first interview since ...
U.S. holds off on Huawei licenses as China halts farm purchases
The White House is holding off on a decision about licenses for U.S. companies to restart business with Huawei Technologies Co. after Beijing said it was halting purchases of U.S. farming goods, according to people familiar with the matter. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose department ...
Toshiba logs ¥140 billion net loss in April-June on poor chip demand
Toshiba Corp. reported a net loss of ¥140.23 billion ($1.3 billion) for the April-June quarter, weighed down by the sluggish performance of its affiliated semiconductor business amid the escalating U.S.-China trade war. The technology conglomerate said on Wednesday that the red ink came also after ...
Japan OKs first shipment of high-tech chemical to South Korea under tightened controls
Trade minister Hiroshige Seko rejected criticism of the recent decision to scrub South Korea from the so-called whitelist of countries cleared for preferential export screenings.
Samsung unveils new Galaxy Note 10 smartphones with advanced camera tech
Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its new Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus smartphones on Wednesday at an event in New York. The Note 10 will feature a 6.3-inch (16-cm) display while the Note 10 Plus will have a 6.8-inch screen. Both will be equipped ...
Japan's current account surplus sank 4.2% in first half amid weak exports
Japan's current account surplus shrank in the first half as exports to Asia turned sluggish amid ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China, government data showed Thursday. The surplus in the current account, one of the widest gauges of international trade, stood at ...
Tourists to Japan are fueling a boom in personal translation devices
Takehiko Fujita wouldn't be able to do his job selling eye drops and pain relievers without his pocket translator. Instead of an app, language dictionary or call-in translation service, the clerk at a Japanese drugstore uses Pocketalk, a ¥25,000 device made by Sourcenext Corp. that ...
Samsung seeks alternatives to Japanese suppliers amid trade row
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co., the world's biggest smartphone and memory chipmaker, is seeking alternatives to Japanese suppliers for some key materials, it said Wednesday as Seoul and Tokyo remain embroiled in a bitter trade dispute. The row has seen the Japanese government ...
