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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2020

U.S. judge rejects Huawei challenge to federal law restricting its business

A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday rejected Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.'s constitutional challenge to a U.S. law that restricted its ability to do business with federal agencies and their contractors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2020

Fujitsu gets Japan's first preliminary local 5G license

Japan's communications ministry on Tuesday gave major electronics maker Fujitsu Ltd. the country's first preliminary license to build a local fifth-generation, or 5G, communications network.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 18, 2020

Japan approves bill to help firms develop 5G and drone technologies

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill designed to help companies develop secure 5G mobile networks and drone technologies amid growing alarm among policymakers about the increasing influence of Chinese technology.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 17, 2020

Malaysia to choose 5G partners based on own security standards

Malaysia's own security standards will dictate which companies take part in its planned 5G rollout this year, its communications minister said as the United States pushes countries to exclude China's Huawei.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 17, 2020

Sharp unveils Japan makers' first 5G-ready smartphone

Sharp Corp. unveiled its first 5G smartphone model Monday, ahead of the ultrafast network service launch scheduled for March.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 17, 2020

Nintendo faces shortage of Switch consoles for U.S. and Europe due to COVID-19

Nintendo Co. is likely to struggle to supply sufficient Switch consoles to its U.S. and European markets as soon as April due to a production bottleneck caused by the coronavirus outbreak, according to sources with knowledge of the company's supply chain.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 17, 2020

Japan recession fears grow as GDP shrinks at 6.3% rate with COVID-19 hit to come

The contraction in the annualized gross domestic product for October-December was the worst in five quarters.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 15, 2020

China counts 2,641 new coronavirus cases and 143 deaths as it struggles to slow spread

More than 2,600 new cases were confirmed from a coronavirus outbreak in mainland China, the National Health Commission said on Saturday, a day after people returning to the capital from holidays were ordered to quarantine themselves for 14 days to try to contain its spread.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 14, 2020

MGM's longtime CEO Jim Murren to quit before contract ends

Jim Murren, MGM Resorts International's longtime chairman and chief executive officer, plans to step down before his contract expires, departing as the casino company copes with fallout from the deadly new coronavirus.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 12, 2020

Japan and the U.S. should co-develop an anti-ship cruise missile system

In the face of growing Chinese maritime capabilities, the U.S. and Japan cannot simply sit idle.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2020

With virus outbreak, China showcases micro drone surveillance

China remains dependent on using humans to watch other humans. That, however, is changing very quickly.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 7, 2020

China's mobile internet giants teaming up against Google's Play app store

China's Xiaomi, Huawei Technologies, Oppo and Vivo are joining forces to create a platform for developers outside China to upload apps onto all of their app stores simultaneously, in a move that analysts say is meant to challenge the dominance of Google's Play store.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 7, 2020

Coronavirus pushes robots to front lines of China's hospitals

The deadly coronavirus outbreak, which has pushed the Chinese medical community into overdrive, has also prompted hospitals to more quickly adopt robots as medical assistants.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2020

Battling a pandemic is a job for the military

Even if coronavirus fizzles out, the world's armies must prepare for the next deadly outbreak.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 1, 2020

Tsuta: The original Michelin-starred ramen shop returns, better

Yuki Onishi is clearly not a chef who is ready or able to rest on his laurels. His flagship ramen restaurant, Japanese Soba Noodles Tsuta, is one of the best-known in the city, drawing legions of fans from near and far. He has won accolades, grabbed global media attention and opened several overseas...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2020

¥4.4 trillion extra budget clears Japan's Upper House

More than half of the massive spending package — u00a52.3 trillion — is earmarked for disaster recovery measures and other public works projects.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 29, 2020

Coronavirus a disease of Chinese autocracy

China continues to undermines its own and the world's safety in order to bolster the CCP's authority.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 28, 2020

Why Sony has developed an electric vehicle

Sony's Vision-S electric car project may be a harbinger of its true comeback.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2020

Japanese banks' fortress mentality puts them on trailing edge of fintech revolution

Japan's effort to nudge its more than 100 struggling regional lenders into the digital age is floundering.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 23, 2020

NTT Docomo to launch 5G streaming service in March

Mobile phone carrier NTT Docomo Inc. said Wednesday it will launch in March a video-streaming service based on fifth-generation, or 5G, high-speed wireless technology.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 23, 2020

British children get the right to know if parents are spying on them online

British children will get the right to know when their parents are spying on them online under a binding code for technology firms, a data watchdog announced on Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 23, 2020

Inside China's virus zone, unease grips a city in lockdown

In Wuhan, the central Chinese city that's ground zero of the deadly new virus spreading through the country, a sense of fear is rapidly taking hold.
Japan Times
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Jan 18, 2020

Memories from the Great Hanshin Earthquake still resonate 25 years later

On the morning of Jan. 17, 1995, I was jolted awake in my Kyoto apartment by the largest earthquake I'd ever experienced. The glass windows shook violently, but thankfully didn't break.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jan 16, 2020

To deter China, refined 'porcupine strategy' may be more crucial to Taiwan than high-profile arms

In her first term, President Tsai Ing-wen secured more than $10 billion in high-profile U.S. weapons to defend Taiwan against China. Over the next four years, it may be more important to acquire less glamorous but nimbler weapons to prevent Beijing from considering an invasion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 10, 2020

Were the 2010s a return to the 1930s?

The last decade saw the framework of the long postwar period start to crumble.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Japan and U.S. to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency
A U.S. Marine Corps M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile (12SSM) system are put on display at a symposium at a base in Kisarazu, Japan, in June 2022.
Preparations for Osaka Expo well underway amid lack of excitement
The Grand Ring, a symbol of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.

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