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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 31, 2019

Facebook's gains show user growth still possible in U.S.

Facebook Inc. delivered better-than-projected sales and steady user growth in its third quarter, proving that its business can endure increasing regulatory scrutiny and criticism over its immense reach and influence.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2019

Boeing unveils revamp to deepen safety focus after 737 Max crashes

Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg unveiled a structural overhaul intended to sharpen the plane-maker's focus on safety after two accidents of its 737 Max killed 346 people within a five-month span.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 10, 2019

Employees sour on Tesla amid cost-cutting and layoffs

Tesla Inc's rankings at two high-profile job websites have declined, suggesting that job dissatisfaction at the electric car company is intensifying amid layoffs, strategy shifts and executive turnover.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 4, 2019

The Royal Ballet brings the best of British ballet to Japan with its production of 'Don Quixote'

For ballet fans across Japan, The Royal Ballet represents the pinnacle in dance, and its upcoming summer tour of Tokyo and Yokohama from June 21 to 30 keeps expectations high.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 11, 2019

Weak Uber market debut augurs poorly for other Silicon Valley unicorns

Uber Technologies Inc.'s conservative initial public offering could not keep its shares from sinking in their trading debut on Friday, fueling debate on Wall Street over whether the outcome of the most anticipated listing since Facebook would weigh on other Silicon Valley unicorns.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Apr 29, 2019

HNA's $25 billion fire sale not enough to emerge from crisis

Even for a company that's been through as many crises as HNA Group Co., it's been a rough few months.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 18, 2019

Philip Morris says it doesn't want you to buy its cigarettes, but will IQOS help it survive?

How can a company that tells people explicitly not to buy its products survive? That's a question for Philip Morris International Inc., which recently unveiled a campaign to "unsmoke" the world.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Mar 24, 2019

Apple's iPhone struggles unravel ambitions of Japan Display

When Japan Display Inc. broke ground on a new factory in central Japan in 2015, the future looked bright for one of the world's top vendors of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2019

New documents link Huawei to suspected front companies in Iran and Syria

The U.S. case against the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies, who was arrested in Canada last month, centers on the company's suspected ties to two obscure companies. One is a telecom equipment seller that operated in Tehran; the other is that firm's owner, a holding company registered...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 11, 2018

Google's China problem is America's China problem

How Beijing pressures and deploys Chinese citizens abroad to expand its power and influence is an issue of grave concern.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2018

Faced with Japan's changing habits and demographics, delivery firm Sagawa looks to diversify

Sagawa delivery driver Keisuke Kawabe has seen the video that went viral on the internet two years ago of one of his colleagues smashing up parcels out of frustration that the customer wasn't home, and he doesn't approve.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Deep Dive
Nov 18, 2018

Japan's IT firms enthusiastically open doors to overseas tech workers

The dozens of young Chinese engineers looked nervous, but eager, as they presented their work in English during a hack-athon in September at the high-rise Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2018

Goldman Sachs to failed manga artist to startup queen: Akiko Naka's unique path to success

By the age of 34, Akiko Naka has already experienced more career-wise than most people do in a lifetime.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 10, 2018

Evidence of China's computer hardware tampering found at U.S. telecom in August: security expert

A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network and removed it in August, according to a security expert working for the telecom company, in fresh evidence that critical technology components bound for the U.S. had been tampered with...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Oct 10, 2018

Japan demonstrates how too many rules can ruin governance

Culture of over-regulation helps explain the country's persistent problem with data falsification.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Sep 28, 2018

SEC probe raises once unthinkable prospect of a Tesla without Elon Musk

It is nearly impossible to imagine Tesla Inc. without Elon Musk — its chairman, CEO, largest shareholder and public face.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead
Sep 17, 2018

For Lifull president Takashi Inoue, emerging tech and a touch of altruism are key to success

Takashi Inoue wants to transform his company, Lifull Co., into a one-stop shop for important lifestyle goods and services, where customers don't just make purchases but are able to get information about what they are buying as well.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2018

Amazon at $1 trillion is more dream than reality

Its market value is a vision of the future, not the present.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 18, 2018

Phillip Morris' iQOS e-cigarette is capable of harvesting smoker's data: ex-project manager

In seeking regulatory approval overseas for iQOS, an electronic smoking device, Philip Morris International Inc. is claiming the product is less likely to cause disease than traditional cigarettes. But the iQOS, which is gaining popularity in Japan, holds another, less obvious advantage over regular...
BUSINESS
May 5, 2018

Xerox CEO to stay in surprise U-turn, putting deal with Fujifilm in flux and setting off proxy war

A plan to replace the chief executive officer of Xerox Corp. and several directors fell apart over a technicality, setting the stage for a proxy fight in which activist shareholders will seek to improve the terms of a deal to cede control of the iconic U.S. printer company to Japan's Fujifilm Holdings...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead
Apr 1, 2018

Zozotown founder Yusaku Maezawa follows eclectic path

Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup cans, a painting by Takashi Murakami and a word sculpture by Jack Pierson are some of the pieces decorating the head office of Start Today Co., operator of Japan's largest online fashion mall, Zozotown.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ESG Consortium Special
Dec 31, 2017

Long-held business beliefs still true in modern times

There are some things that Japan does very well. Things such as trains arriving on time, great food and anime. And the world, by and large, recognizes this.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 22, 2017

While agile startups blaze a trail, Japan remains ambivalent on electric vehicles

Despite growing interest in electric vehicles amid stricter curbs on greenhouse gas emissions, globally renowned Japanese carmakers have yet to totally embrace the challenge — raising concerns they may fall behind emerging rivals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 23, 2017

Uber's messy data breach collides with launch of SoftBank deal

Uber, nearing a deal with SoftBank, says it paid hackers destroy data on more than 57 million users stolen from the company but not reported to victims or authorities.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Nov 9, 2017

Monsanto's decisions behind the weed-killer crisis that caused millions acres of crop damage

In early 2016, agri-business giant Monsanto faced a decision that would prove pivotal in what since has become a sprawling herbicide crisis, with millions of acres of crops damaged.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Nov 6, 2017

SoftBank's Masayoshi Son faces tough choices after dropping Sprint and T-Mobile tieup plan

Masayoshi Son, celebrated Japanese deal-maker, just negotiated himself into a corner.

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