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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 7, 2022

Nippon Paper sues Daio Paper over patents on very long toilet rolls

In a suit filed with the Tokyo District Court, Nippon Paper has demanded that Daio stop making and selling similar products and pay u00a533 million in damages.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 7, 2022

How China has added to its influence over the iPhone

Apple is taking small steps toward India. But the production of its latest phone, set for introduction on Wednesday, shows how difficult it will be to make big changes.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2022

Thai opposition seeks to strip Senate of powers to pick next prime minister

Lawmakers were set to vote on a raft of proposals to amend the 2017 military-backed constitution.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 7, 2022

‘Playing with fire’: U.N. team calls for no-fire zone at Ukraine nuclear plant

In a highly anticipated report, nuclear experts who inspected Europe's largest nuclear plant called for Russia and Ukraine to halt all military activity around the complex.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2022

Russia looking to buy 'millions' of North Korean rockets and artillery

The U.S. said any deal would violate U.N. sanctions on Pyongyang and described the move as the latest sign of Moscow's “desperation” as its bloody war in Ukraine grinds on.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2022

Yen plunge worsens despite strongest government warnings yet

The renewed selloff in U.S. Treasurys this month has widened the yield gap between the U.S. and Japan, pushing the yen to a 24-year low.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 7, 2022

How will Ukraine rebuild (and who should pay)?

A report to Western donors before a major reconstruction conference next month urges quick decisions, phased investment and strict foreign oversight of any aid.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Sep 7, 2022

Billy Horschel calls LIV players at BMW PGA event ‘hypocritical’

Horschel, an outspoken critic of the Saudi-backed LIV circuit, was peeved that some LIV players who had never previously played in Europe were on hand at Wentworth Club outside London.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 7, 2022

A man who genuinely cared: Mourning the real Shinzo Abe

Though the slain former Japanese prime minister belonged to the hawkish wing of his party, he was not the unbending nationalist conservative that many foreigners deemed him to be.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Sep 7, 2022

PSG faces backlash over mockery of train travel option

Politicians, campaigners and even France's prime minister weighed in on Tuesday, condemning Christophe Galtier and Kylian Mbappe for being out of touch as Europe faces an energy crisis.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2022

Australia reassures Japan and South Korea as it considers limiting LNG exports

Heightened demand for gas and a likely shortage next year have prompted calls for the Australian government to use a policy forcing operators in eastern states to offer cargoes domestically first.
Air traffic at the Erbil International Airport in Erbil, Iraq, was suspended in the early morning on Tuesday amid explosions.
WORLD
Jan 16, 2024

Iran attacks Israel's 'espionage centers' in Iraq, state media says

Revolutionary Guards said they also struck in Syria against the Islamic State group.
People walk outside a polling station in Uxbridge, Britain, on July 20.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 16, 2024

Millions more overseas Brits now eligible to vote in U.K. elections

The expansion in the electorate follows a change in the law scrapping a previous curb on U.K. citizens voting if they had lived overseas for over 15 years.
A man rides a scooter over a bridge across from the Lujiazui financial district in Shanghai on Jan. 9.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 16, 2024

China set to reach 2023 growth goal as focus shifts to new year

The figures for GDP, industrial production and retail sales are likely to show improvements from the same period in 2022, helped by a low base of comparison.
The Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance headquarters in Tokyo. The insurer isn't interested in buying Japan’s superlong sovereign bonds until yields start rising.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 16, 2024

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance to avoid Japan sovereign bonds for now

Japanese life insurers are the main buyer of bonds due in more than 10 years and typically increase purchases toward the end of the fiscal year.
Smoke billows above Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 16, 2024

Israel to end war in southern Gaza 'soon' as U.N. demands cease-fire

A day after Israel's prime minister said fighting would continue for months, the Israeli army confirmed one of four divisions in northern Gaza had withdrawn.
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, inside the Congress Center ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 16, 2024

OpenAI will roll out new tools to thwart election misinformation

New tools will attribute information about current events provided by its chatbot ChatGPT, and help users determine if an image was created by its AI software.
A doctor and a nurse check on people affected by the New Year's Day quake in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 6.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2024

Doctors and nurses support families at morgues after Noto quake

Teams were sent after the 2016 quakes in Kumamoto Prefecture and a major mudslide in Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture in 2021.
A container ship crosses the Gulf of Suez toward the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal east of Cairo. Vessels have been pausing or diverting from the Red Sea amid the escalating conflict in the region.
WORLD
Jan 16, 2024

Yemen's Houthis threaten to hit U.S. ships as more tankers steer clear

The Iran-allied militant group said British and American vessels had become "legitimate targets" following last week's strikes on its sites by both countries.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 16, 2024

North Korea's Kim calls for change in status of South and warns of war

Kim Jong Un has called for a constitutional amendment to change the status of South Korea to a separate state, while also abolishing three inter-Korean agencies.
Stronger annual wage negotiation results are likely to pave the way for the Bank of Japan to end its negative interest rate by this spring, a former BOJ official says.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 16, 2024

Wage gains of 4% would pave way for BOJ rate hike, ex-official says

Market participants are monitoring annual wage talks closely as they may be a decisive factor in prompting Japan's central bank to end the world’s last negative rate.
A banner for the World Economic Forum hangs on a building on the first day of the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 16, 2024

Pre-Davos survey indicates CEOs' fears regarding AI and climate

Some 45% of more than 4,700 global CEOs surveyed do not believe their businesses will survive, barring significant changes, in the next 10 years.
A woman who filed a suit claiming damages against her father but had her claim dismissed by the Hiroshima High Court in November has said she felt like she was being accused of making a complaint only when time had run out.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Jan 22, 2024

Passage of time gets in the way for victims of child sexual abuse

The woman, in her 40s, deemed it unfair that the perpetrator gets away scot-free because of the statute of limitation.
A worker carries a tray containing steamed kamaboko at a factory in Ise, Mie Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society / Regional voices: Chubu
Jan 22, 2024

As costs rise, kamaboko producers struggle to stay afloat

Many have little choice but to raise the prices of their own products after having exhausted other measures.
A person walks amid the snowy wreckage of collapsed homes and power lines in earthquake-hit Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 16, 2024

U.S. military to join relief effort in earthquake-hit Noto area

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said that the U.S. military and the SDF would be working “side by side” in the operations.
Japan's input inflation was flat in December, the weakest showing in almost three years.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 16, 2024

Japan’s input inflation flatlines for weakest result since 2021

Input prices were unchanged last month from a year earlier, the weakest showing in almost three years as the yen’s recent gains helped cap import costs.
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
Tokyo’s take on that viral chocolate from Dubai
Cafe N°_5's take on the Dubai chocolate craze that has been circulating on social media over the past few months is a mix of bitter and sweet.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
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.

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