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Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 2, 2018

Harri Koskinen: The Finnish connection

Industrial designer Harri Koskinen talks about his designs for the Iittala x Issey Miyake Home Collection and the affinity between Japanese and Finnish culture.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 30, 2018

Ghosn a symptom of broken global capitalism

There hasn't been a more exciting time to be a critic of the 'greed is good' philosophy of the corporate sector led by self-centric rock-star CEOs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2018

Google workers push to stop censored search engine Project Dragonfly targeting China users

More than 200 engineers, designers and managers at Alphabet Inc.'s Google demanded in an open letter on Tuesday that the company end development of a censored search engine for Chinese users, escalating earlier protests against the secretive project.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 22, 2018

As demand slows, Apple iPhone supplier Foxconn plans deep cost cuts

Foxconn Technology Group, the biggest assembler of iPhones, has become the latest Apple Inc. supplier to warn of anemic demand, with an internal memo suggesting that expenses will be cut by almost a half next year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 21, 2018

Renault and Nissan lurch toward war

There's one thing that's clear amid the uncertain future for this carmaking alliance: The Japanese company wants Ghosn gone.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2018

Japan startup's superflies may hold key to food self-sufficiency — even in space

Houseflies, the Soviet space program and manned missions to Mars — these aren't plot devices for a Cold War space thriller, but key terms to understand the history behind Fukuoka-based startup Musca Inc.'s project to provide a solution to some of the world's most pressing agricultural problems: food...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Nov 20, 2018

Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance seen surviving the arrest of Carlos Ghosn

The arrest Monday of Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who is widely credited with turning around the struggling Yokohama-based automaker and forming one of the world's most powerful auto groups, has sent shock waves through the industry and left observers wondering what will become of the firm's cross-border...
EDITORIALS
Nov 20, 2018

Nissan must rebuild its governance

The Ghosn scandal highlights Nissan's flawed governance.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 17, 2018

Keidanren faces flak for falling behind the times despite change in leadership

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) published an article on June 17 that was critical of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), a lobbying organization made up of more than 1,300 of the country's biggest companies. The Nikkei has always been in Keidanren’s corner, so it was something of a shock to...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 17, 2018

Flamboyant 'host club king' Takeshi Aida given an extravagant sendoff

An extravagant wake and funeral was held earlier this month in memory of host club Ai Honten's flamboyant founder, Takeshi Aida, who passed away on Oct. 25 at the age of 78 after a prolonged illness.
Japan Times
Nov 16, 2018

Pensees Inc. has become a Golden Partner with HubSpot Inc.

From organizing News2u group’s net PR and strategy planning for web Pensees Inc. has become a Golden Partner with HubSpot Inc. to thinking of the design, its built and analyzation of UI · UX, Pensees Inc.(Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Akira Masuda) has become a certified...
Japan Times
Singapore report 2018
Nov 15, 2018

The leader of looking forward

This year, Makino Asia Pte. Ltd. celebrates 45 years in Singapore as the Asian headquarters of Makino Milling Machine Co. Ltd.
Japan Times
Singapore report 2018
Nov 15, 2018

Delivering quality products and innovative design to Asia

The YKK Group manufactured its first fastening product over 80 years ago. The company has since grown to become the world’s largest manufacturer of zippers and fastening products with 111 affiliated companies across 73 countries and regions.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 14, 2018

Nobel Prize winner Tasuku Honjo calls for better-funded and more imaginative pharma industry in Japan

On the evening of Oct. 1, Dr. Tasuku Honjo was in his office at Kyoto University discussing a manuscript with two of his colleagues when a secretary came dashing in to announce there was a call from Sweden. Could he take it?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 14, 2018

Fearing 'back doors' for Beijing, some German officials push to exclude Chinese firms from building 5G infrastructure

Senior German officials are planning a last-ditch drive to convince the government to consider excluding Chinese firms such as Huawei from building Germany's 5G infrastructure, concerned that it could compromise national security.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE HIGH GROUNDS
Nov 10, 2018

Social Good Roasters: Balancing coffee and community

Social Good Roasters is a social welfare organization that specifically employees people with disabilities such as Down syndrome and autism and teaches them everything from how to sort unroasted coffee beans to the process of brewing and roasting.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 9, 2018

North Korean worker seeks Dutch shipbuilder's prosecution over labor abuses, alleging 'slave-like conditions'

A North Korean laborer has filed a landmark criminal complaint against a Dutch shipbuilding company that allegedly profited from the abuse of workers in its supply chain in Poland and was aware of the "slave-like conditions," lawyers said on Thursday.
Japan Times
Poland report 2018
Nov 9, 2018

QLOC brings its A-game to Japan

What started off as a small company providing quality assurance and localization services in 2009 has grown to be one of the key European companies providing first-class services for the video game industry.
Japan Times
Poland report 2018
Nov 9, 2018

Committed to developing strong relationships

Offering a full range of products and services for passenger cars and commercial vehicles, Hitachi Capital Polska is driving into the future. The company provides clients with fleet solutions based on best whole-life cost for business purpose, safety, environmental, guaranteed mobility and customer satisfaction....
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 5, 2018

Chinese state-backed chipmaker's dreams of dominance face hurdle with U.S. indictment

Chinese state-backed semiconductor maker Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. Ltd. billed itself as a national leader in the tech industry. It planned to drive a shift toward locally made chips and end a heavy reliance on imports, especially from the United States.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2018

Apple warns on holiday sales, sending value below $1 trillion

Apple Inc. on Thursday warned that sales for the crucial holiday quarter would likely miss Wall Street expectations, which Chief Executive Tim Cook blamed on weakness in emerging markets and foreign exchange costs.
Reader Mail
Nov 2, 2018

A long way from full acceptance

Regarding the Oct. 8 article "Gaijin Day: How an event in Hamamatsu about unity proved to be divisive": I lived in Japan for more than 30 years and worked in a Japanese-owned company there as well as working in several universities. I finally left Japan because I found the "quiet" discrimination there...
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.
Hiroshi Kurosaki looks beyond Japan for heart-wrenching drama
Hiroshi Kurosaki’s Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye” centers on a woman (Kasumi Arimura, left) who discovers her dead lover’s heart saved the life of a quiet pianist (Kentaro Sakaguchi).
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.
‘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

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