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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Longform
Apr 4, 2022

Reimagining Japan’s growing glut of empty homes

Entrepreneurs see an opportunity in Japan's abandoned properties as businesses try to change them from liabilities into assets.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Apr 4, 2022

China promotes traditional cures as Pfizer pill alternatives

China is struggling to persuade skeptics to put aside doubts about traditional medicine that hasn't gone through large, standardized clinical trials.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Apr 2, 2022

Gaming companies slow to press pause on Russian business

Western console and game makers beat their Japanese counterparts to the punch when it came to taking a stand against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Apr 1, 2022

Shifts in yen signal Japan has ‘lost its mojo’ as supreme safe haven

When measured against a basket of units of trading partners, the yen's fading allure can clearly be seen.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Mar 30, 2022

Bankers are still standing behind the dirtiest fossil fuel

While the biggest chunk of the coal money is being accumulated for Chinese endeavors, the increase nevertheless runs counter to all the global banking sector chatter about the fossil fuel.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 28, 2022

Activist fund executives on board bolstered Olympus, CEO says

Olympus's shares have more than doubled since ValueAct, a U.S. hedge fund, persuaded Olympus to accept its director nominations in 2019.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2022

Putin’s war and the mirage of the rules-based order

Rules-based order and economic interdependence has not stopped countries like Russia and China from engaging in relentless expansionism at the expense of their neighbors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 25, 2022

SoftBank is seeking at least $60 billion in Arm IPO

Valuing Arm at more than $60 billion is a gambit for SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who acquired the business in 2016 for about $32 billion.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2022

Russia remainers say leaving would hand Putin an easy win

Moves by Nestle SA, Renault SA and Philip Morris International Inc. to scale back their Russian businesses have left a dwindling handful of holdouts resisting the corporate exodus.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 25, 2022

Experts see China stuck in a slowly evolving 'COVID zero' loop

Despite Chinese President Xi Jinping's call in mid-March to limit the economic and social fallout of virus elimination, large-scale lockdowns and mass testing drives are back.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 24, 2022

Toshiba faces unclear future after shareholders knock back two rival proposals

The result of the extraordinary general meeting appears to leave Toshiba with no immediate clear direction.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2022

China’s consumers face deeper economic damage from COVID lockdowns

President Xi Jinping has pledged to reduce u2018COVID zero' fallout, but unease may last longer if people remain wary and unemployment continues to rise.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 24, 2022

Zelenskyy’s virtual world tour proves a new weapon in Russia war

Badly out-gunned by Russia on land, in the air and at sea, the information war is the one arena in which Ukraine is clearly winning.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2022

Disruption to rail routes due to war in Ukraine poses latest hitch for supply chains

Exporters and logistics firms transporting auto parts, cars, laptops and smartphones are now looking to avoid land routes that pass through Russia or the combat zone.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2022

Russian oil seeps into global market to ease supply fears for now

For now, traders appear to be taking the view that the flow of Russian oil indicates that the market won't be as tight as first thought.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2022

Honda may commercialize algae-growing technology for carbon capture and biofuel

The automaker plans to use the algae at its production facilities in Japan and Southeast Asia to offset carbon emissions from the latter half of 2023.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 21, 2022

Toyota, Subaru and Mazda still betting on green combustion fuels amid EV shift

Japanese carmakers' approach of maintaining a broad range of options has drawn criticism from those who argue that they will fall behind in the pivot to battery-powered cars.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2022

Saudi Arabia’s oil-for-yuan bid won’t threaten the dollar

In an increasingly divided world, it makes sense to look for a good alternative to the greenback. Now is not that time.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 19, 2022

Western companies wrestle with Russia 'half-exits'

About 80 Western companies, mostly consumer and pharmaceutical companies that argue that pulling out would significantly harm the Russian population, have retained a presence in Russia.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 19, 2022

Syria's Bashar Assad visits UAE in first trip to Arab state since war began

The visit drew a sharp rebuke from Washington, with the State Department saying it was 'profoundly disappointed and troubled' by what it called an apparent attempt to legitimize Assad.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2022

Quake-hit Japan plants restart but Toyota to suspend 18 assembly lines

The quake has sparked concerns of further disruptions to a pandemic-hit supply chain for precision components vital to electronics and autos production.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 18, 2022

A ‘beautiful’ translation does not preclude a ‘faithful’ result

There are a few myths when it comes to the accuracy of any given translation; the process is more complicated than you think.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 16, 2022

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son loses $25 billion in tech’s brutal winter

From China's tech crackdown to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a litany of troubles has beset Son and his conglomerate.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 15, 2022

Bank of Japan chief risks hitting inflation goal in a way he doesn’t want

Economists are predicting core consumer prices will rise at a pace of 2% or more this year as surging energy prices, a weakening yen and stabilizing phone charges feed inflation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 15, 2022

Shaming Apple and texting Elon Musk, a Ukraine minister uses novel war tactics

Mykhailo Fedorov has become one of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's most visible lieutenants, deploying technology and finance as modern weapons of war.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 14, 2022

Russia asked China for military and economic aid for Ukraine war, U.S. officials say

Moscow was eyeing help from Beijing to help counteract the battering its economy has taken from broad sanctions imposed by the U.S., European and Asian nations.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / Longform
Mar 14, 2022

Plastic love: Proliferation of PET bottles in Japan complicates a sustainable future

Japan recycles and reuses its ubiquitous plastic container more than almost any other country — but some say it's still not enough.
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.
Japan to overhaul tax exemption system for foreign visitors
The Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in August
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.
Real-life ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ ordered to pay ¥1 billion in damages
High-rise buildings in Tokyo. Through faking documents and passports a criminal group conspired to pose as the owner of a real-estate plot and buildings in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in 2017, defrauding Sekisui House of ¥5.5 billion.
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.
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
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
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