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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2015

'Puzzle & Dragons' maker plans expansion into game publishing

GungHo Online Entertainment Inc. plans to strike partnerships with third-party game developers and share its recipe for success as the maker of the world's highest-grossing smartphone title begins to expand into publishing.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 18, 2015

Japan's 'Galapagos phones' making a comeback

Smartphones have spread rapidly in Japan in recent years, but there still seems to be strong demand for feature phones, or so-called "Galapagos" phones, according to recent data.
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2015

Uber will spell the end of London's black cabs

While there are sentimental reasons to lament the demise of black cabs, Londoners should treat it as a sign of progress.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 22, 2015

Sony beats estimates as Hirai revamp fuels earnings growth

Sony Corp. raised its profit forecast for the second time since February as Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai's revamp stokes earnings from games and financial services.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 17, 2015

China's incredible shrinking factories

Eight years ago, Pascal Lighting employed about 2,000 workers on a leafy campus in southern China. Today, the Taiwanese light manufacturer has winnowed its workforce to just 200 and leased most of its space to other companies: lamp workshops, a mobile phone-maker, a logistics group, a liquor brand.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 3, 2015

Rebranded as democracy advocate, ex-coup leader Buhari had tech leg up in Nigeria polls

Technology played a decisive role in helping Muhammadu Buhari become the first Nigerian to oust a sitting president at the ballot box, from social media campaigning to biometric machines preventing the widespread rigging that marred past polls.
EDITORIALS
Mar 31, 2015

Trading personal data

A proposed revision to the law on protecting personal information, already submitted to the Diet, would allow businesses that hold customer data to provide the information to third parties as long as the data is processed to prevent identification of the individuals. It is intended to facilitate the...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2015

Nintendo finally enters smartphone game sector, with DeNA as partner

In a major policy shift, Nintendo Co. said it has partnered with mobile video game operator DeNA Co. to enter the smartphone game market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 12, 2015

Vaio Phone to offer SIM-free option in 'wide open' market

Japan Communications Inc. unveiled on Thursday a new smartphone designed in collaboration with Vaio Corp. to energize the market for SIM-free smartphones in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 11, 2015

Clinton admits it would have been better to have second email address

Likely Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday it would have been better if she had used a government email account and a separate mobile device as U.S. secretary of state, but said the vast majority of her correspondence went to employees using government addresses.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 18, 2015

Sony CEO Hirai says selling TV business now an option

After years of refusing to entertain the idea of selling its long-struggling TV business, Sony Corp. CEO Kazuo Hirai said Wednesday that putting the unit on the auction block is now an option.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 18, 2015

Number of IPOs in Japan projected to hit 17-year high

Nomura Holdings Inc. expects initial public offerings to double to their highest level in 17 years as the resurgent stock market attracts investors to entrants, including Japan Post Holdings Co.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 15, 2015

Growth-stunting technology

Though information and communications technology has made remarkable strides since 1991, it appears to have stunted Japan's economic growth rate.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Feb 6, 2015

Revival in Sony shares credited to ascent of CFO Yoshida

Investors' newfound enthusiasm for bloated Sony owes much to ascendant CFO Kenichiro Yoshida's ability to cut jobs, exit money-losing businesses and rein in its outsized ambitions.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 6, 2015

RadioShack files for bankruptcy, will sell up to 2,400 stores

Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Thursday and said it had a deal in place to sell as many as 2,400 stores to an affiliate of hedge fund Standard General, its lender and largest shareholder.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2015

Facebook diplomacy on the Ukrainian front

Dramatic dispatches of diplomacy from a Ukrainian tank officer underscore social media's ability to keep soldiers and their commanders on Ukraine's eastern battlefield in touch with friends and families.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 28, 2015

Sony teaming with Aeon for share of budget smartphone market

Sony Corp. and major retailer Aeon Co. are planning a foray into the market for lower-priced smartphones, according to sources.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 9, 2015

Sony to delay sale of PlayStation 4 in China

Sony Corp. will delay sales of the PlayStation 4 in China, originally scheduled for this Sunday, due to "various factors," the company said.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 6, 2015

Dish to unveil $20-a-month streaming-TV service with ESPN, TNT

Dish Network Corp. plans to unveil the first major online television service from a cable or satellite company, a $20-a-month set of 12 channels that targets U.S. customers who don't want to pay for larger, more expensive TV packages.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2014

Conservative Abe's secrecy law doesn't hold a candle to Seoul's press suppression

For people concerned with the weakening of press freedoms under the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, its criticism of Asahi Shimbun and the new state secrets law, there should still be a sense of relief that media suppression in Japan has not quite reached the levels now being seen in South Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Dec 16, 2014

Unlocking carriers' SIM hold on cellphones: Will competition heat up?

In October, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry announced new guidelines on removing the SIM lock on cellphones, saying carriers will be required to unlock handsets starting next May.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 12, 2014

Loeb's opponents cheered even as Sony tightened belt

When activist investor Daniel Loeb announced in October he'd sold his Sony Corp. stake, executives at the company's Culver City, California, studio lot expressed relief.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 9, 2014

China arming stealthy subs with long-range nuclear missiles

China is preparing to arm its stealthiest submarines with nuclear missiles that could reach the U.S., cloaking its arsenal with the invisibility needed to retaliate in the event of an enemy strike.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2014

NPO lends support to Filipino dropouts

A charity in the Philippines is helping an important but often overlooked segment of the population: school dropouts.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2014

A common sense policy on conflict minerals

Funding conflict and human-rights abuses through the purchase of natural resources is not an acceptable cost of doing business.
WORLD
Dec 2, 2014

Boko Haram insurgents attack two north Nigerian cities, fire on air force jet, witnesses report

Islamist insurgents attacked two northern Nigerian state capitals on Monday, hitting a police post and setting off explosions in a market that killed at least five people, witnesses said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2014

'Super Smash Bros.' preorders set Wii U record, giving Nintendo hope for big Christmas

Advance orders for the "Super Smash Bros." video game for the Wii U console are at a record and may lift sales of the struggling console during the holidays, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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