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BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Oct 8, 2020

Nagasaki bank merger may expose flaws in Suga’s regional rescue plan

Some in Nagasaki fret the merged bank, which would belong to a financial group based in Fukuoka Prefecture, may shift its focus away from local borrowers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2020

Who’s still working at home? The affluent is who

Many of the U.S. ZIP codes hit hardest by the pandemic's economic fallout are those where affluent stay-at-home workers have stopped spending money on local services.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2020

Nintendo bulls betting Switch can provide gaming’s iPhone moment

Some Nintendo bulls believe the company can transform into one that's able to roll out incremental new platforms while retaining its user base.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Top Global Universities in Japan
Oct 5, 2020

Liberal arts offers solid foundation for future study, career

Japan Times
JAPAN / Top Global Universities in Japan
Oct 5, 2020

Expectations toward universities and global talent

The business world has high expectations for globalizing universities to better prepare students to contribute and lead as global talent. We asked David Macdonald, representative officer and president of Discovery Japan, about his expectations and hopes for universities in the global era.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2020

India needs to copy China better

To lure manufacturers away from China, India is going to have to convince them that they'll be able to operate just as easily and efficiently.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Oct 4, 2020

Private renters in Sapporo launch domestic travel campaign as global travel stalls

In the six months to August, 709 minpaku properties closed down in Sapporo, their number down to around 80 percent of their peak.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Oct 2, 2020

Exchange outage latest blow to Tokyo’s financial hub dreams

Unlike equity markets in nearby Hong Kong natural disasters have never forced the exchange to close, but it has repeatedly been taken down by technical glitches.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 30, 2020

Of course, the U.S. presidential debate was always going to be about Trump

An insatiable self-evangelist and denier of realities that displease him, the U.S. leader invited viewers Tuesday to embrace his preferred version of Trump-era events.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 29, 2020

NTT to take mobile unit Docomo private for ¥4 trillion

The buyout is expected be the largest tender offer in history for a Japanese company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 28, 2020

ANA sees largest intraday drop in Tokyo trading since April 1

ANA Holdings Inc. tumbled as much as 8.5 percent in Tokyo trading Monday, its largest intraday drop since April 1, after a report the airline is considering raising ¥200 billion ($1.9 billion) through a public share offering.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 27, 2020

A closer look at the LDP lawmakers who support Suga

Yoshihide Suga became prime minister because he was able to secure the support of the most powerful formal faction leaders in the Liberal Democratic Party, whose members voted for him over rivals Fumio Kishida and Shigeru Ishiba, who also lead their own factions. But behind that support from top formal...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2020

Xbox targets mobile gamers with new cloud service in Japan

Microsoft is also engaging creators in the country, distributing development kits to more than 100 of them.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 23, 2020

Japan's SBI, eyeing shake-up of regional banks, may get a Suga boost

Suga has pledged to strengthen local economies and encourage regional banks to consolidate, a shake-up that many say is long overdue.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 21, 2020

In SUVs and on planes, richest 1% drive climate-heating emissions

The coronavirus pandemic has, though, opened the door to new, progressive policies to help tackle climate change.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 19, 2020

How COVID-19 has altered the conversation about money

Before the coronavirus, Tara Beier and her husband, Dennis, rarely discussed money. They kept separate bank accounts and divided their household responsibilities. Her husband, 42, covered the mortgage on the two properties they own, while Beier, 38, managed and took care of a rental home. It worked fine...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 18, 2020

Virus wrecks once-in-a-lifetime job chance for Japan’s new grads

With companies cutting back on hiring plans for 2021, soon-to-be college graduates worry they're missing their chance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2020

Singapore wants cold war’s casualties, not cash

Amid the drumbeats of a U.S.-China cold war, the Southeast Asian island-state is often talked about as a sanctuary for capital looking to flee the clash of superpowers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Sep 14, 2020

Abenomics improved Japan's corporate governance, but more work remains

While the framework prodded companies to strengthen corporate governance, many firms are still refraining from taking more proactive approaches.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2020

U.S.-China relations: Washington's bold moves have few buyers

By now, it is widely known that the U.S. is tightening the screws on Beijing across all areas of competition — from trade, technology to security.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Sep 12, 2020

For Japan-U.K. trade deal, speed was of the essence

Although both countries have touted a handful of differences, a fast-approaching year-end deadline meant the agreement mostly reproduces an earlier Japan-EU pact.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Sep 11, 2020

Trump’s 2016 China-bashing playbook risks flopping against Biden

U.S. President Donald Trump is reviving tactics from his 2016 campaign playbook on attacking China, but running as the incumbent means defending a record of only limited success in rewriting the economic relationship with Beijing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 11, 2020

Her father in prison, Uighur activist wants Disney to apologize

'It would be actually great if Disney can publicly first acknowledge the existence of those ... forced-labor camps ... and that it's wrong,' she said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2020

First woman to head top bank shows how Wall Street is playing catch-up

Citigroup Inc.'s appointment of Jane Fraser as its next chief executive on Thursday was celebrated on Wall Street as the first woman to lead one of the top U.S. banks. Yet this is a glass ceiling that corporate America shattered decades ago.

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