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COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 30, 2022

China’s video game ambitions threaten to one-up Japan

Along with the EU, the world's second-largest economy, China, wants to use gaming to promote soft power. Japan should take that as a warning.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 16, 2022

Rakuten seeks $500 million in rare Japanese junk bond deal

The bond offering is gaining attention given the fledgling junk debt market in Japan, where weaker firms aren't compelled to sell speculative-grade notes due to easy access to bank loans.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 9, 2022

Breaking Japan’s cash habit by nudging wage earners

The Japanese government plans to pay workers directly into digital wallets to move them off cash and into virtual payments.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Mar 17, 2022

Beating Japan at its own (video) game: A smash hit from China

Genshin Impact, one of the world's hottest mobile games, has all the characteristics of a Japanese invention: giant robots and characters with huge eyes and spiky, rainbow-colored hair.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 4, 2022

Activision Blizzard earnings miss estimates after Microsoft deal

Adjusted revenue fell 18% to $2.49 billion in the fourth quarter, Activision Blizzard said in a statement Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 9, 2021

Military coup puts Telenor's future in Myanmar on the line

The firm, one of the biggest foreign investors in Myanmar, must now decide whether to ride out the turmoil, or withdraw from the market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 12, 2021

Rakuten to raise $2.2 billion as Japan Post and Tencent buy stakes

The Japanese e-commerce pioneer has benefited from a boom in online shopping during the pandemic, but faces stiff competition from Amazon.com Inc.
Japan Times
Special Supplements / 5G Special
Feb 24, 2021

Racing full speed ahead toward a digitalized Japan

About a year has passed since Japan’s first commercial 5G mobile communications service was launched. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has announced a target of increasing the number of base stations to 280,000 by the end of March 2024 and is promoting further development of the...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 22, 2020

SoftBank to match NTT Docomo's ¥2,980 smartphone plan as price war escalates

Some in the industry have accused the government of excessive meddling after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's administration urged major carriers to lower fees.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2020

Trump’s TikTok assault opens new front in tech war with China

By going after TikTok, the U.S. is expanding a fight against Beijing using Chinese-style restrictions on tech companies in a move that could potentially have enormous ramifications for the world’s biggest economies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2020

Japan internet providers say they can handle coronavirus-driven surge

Internet traffic in Japan has spiked as more homebound workers and students rely on video meetings and streaming content amid the COVID-19 outbreak, raising the question of how much this will affect access to networks that may until now have been taken for granted.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 7, 2019

Vodafone tests new network tech in U.K. in challenge to 'big three' suppliers

Vodafone is testing innovative open access radio technology in Britain — a first for Europe — in a move that could break the grip Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia hold on the telco equipment market.
Japan Times
South Africa report 2019
Aug 30, 2019

Mitsubishi Corporation — contributing to Africa’s development

Mitsubishi Corp. is committed to supporting Africa’s economic development. One of Japan‘s largest trading companies, it is active in 12 countries across the continent and the corporation’s business is growing at a breathtaking pace.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2019

Tokyo to allow students to bring smartphones to school

Tokyo's Board of Education said Thursday it has decided to allow students at metropolitan junior high and high schools to bring their mobile electronic devices, including smartphones, to school.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 10, 2019

The 'black ships' from Asia

Japan is being leapfrogged by innovations from all quarters across Asia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INSIDER REPORT
Dec 3, 2018

Adapting to new industries, bolstering world's infrastructure

The ability of the sōgō shōsha to survive through all the changes and transformations that have taken place over the years can, in many ways, be attributed to their adeptness in recognizing the rise of new industries early on and creating new businesses in the process, or in applying new technologies...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Jul 19, 2018

Google shrugs off EU fine; damage to hinge on rivals' next moves

The European Union's record $5 billion fine against Google, levied Wednesday morning, marks the biggest regulatory attack yet on technology giants. But investors and analysts largely shrugged off the ruling's potential to immediately dent Google's business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 13, 2018

Adobe to launch Photoshop for iPad in strategy shift

Adobe Systems Inc., the maker of popular digital design programs for creatives, is planning to launch the full version of its Photoshop app for Apple Inc.'s iPad as part of a new strategy to make its products compatible across multiple devices and boost subscription sales.
Soldiers look at a bomb shelter painted like a forest at the Nova memorial site in Re’im, Israel, in April.
WORLD
Aug 12, 2024

Israel bolsters infrastructure defense amid Iranian threats

Israel is so reliant on technology that the country has earned the nickname "Start-Up Nation.”
A woman checks her phone as she stands amid the rubble of a building destroyed during Israeli bombardment in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 12, 2024

In Gaza, keeping the internet on can cost lives but also save them

Preserving the war-torn territory's internet connection comes at a price and the risks can be deadly for desperate users.
The new V Point program offers a feature allowing members to earn double reward points when making payments with credit cards.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Aug 26, 2024

New V Point spurs corporate economic bloc race in Japan

Competition among corporate groups in Japan is intensifying further as they strive to expand their economic influence through shared reward points.
A member of the Self-Defense Forces wipes away sweat as he conducts a search and rescue operation at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 11, 2018.
ENVIRONMENT / Boiling Point
Aug 29, 2024

Can Japan handle a heat wave and natural disaster at the same time?

Recent typhoons and the Nankai Trough megaquake alert have put the spotlight on how the country would deal with a dual disaster.
Hashim Safieddine, a Shiite Muslim cleric and the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, speaks Wednesday during a funeral in Beirut for some of those killed after paging devices exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon the previous day.
EDITORIALS
Sep 20, 2024

Pager bombs just add more fuel to the Middle East fire

The tale that is emerging after the pager bombs is one that resembles a spy novel, a feat of derring-do by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.
Eric Adams, mayor of New York, exits a weekly news conference at City Hall in New York in 2023.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 27, 2024

NYC mayor was corrupt for years, U.S. claims in scathing case

The indictment calls into question the political future of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is in charge of running the biggest U.S. city.
A room in a temporary shelter in Kanagawa Prefecture for young people who have run away from home due to abuse and other reasons
JAPAN / Society
Sep 30, 2024

Japan's children's agency looks to set up shelters for runaways

The agency has launched a project offering subsidies to prefectures and major cities that set up runaway shelters.
People line up to buy wood to protect their assets before the hurricane Milton, in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2024

After Helene devastation, over 1 million people flee path of Hurricane Milton

Milton, which exploded Monday into one of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record, was forecast to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday.
The RX-78F00/E Gundam model, standing approximately 17 meters tall and weighing about 49 tons, will be exhibited at the Osaka Expo.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2024

Full-size Gundam unveiled at Osaka Expo venue

Bandai Namco will launch related products including plastic models and action figures in conjunction with the display.
Federal Judge Amit Mehta ruled in August that Google, whose Chrome browser controls about 61% of the market in the U.S., illegally monopolized the search market.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 19, 2024

DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome to break search monopoly

Such a move would be a historic crackdown on one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?