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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 26, 2017
Kobe Steel loses JIS quality certification for some copper products
A key quality certification for some of Kobe Steel's copper and copper-alloy products has been revoked over the firm's data falsification scandal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 21, 2017
Lack of automation let Kobe Steel manually manipulate inspection certificate process, official says
Some Kobe Steel Ltd. plants lack systems that automatically input product inspection data from measuring devices to produce inspection certificates, it was learned Saturday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 20, 2017
Kobe Steel said employees' cover-up hampered internal probe on data falsification scandal
Kobe Steel's data-fabrication scandal deepens after revelations that employees failed to disclose deceptive practices at the troubled metal maker.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 13, 2017
Kobe Steel scandal widens to 500 firms
Chairman says all business sections being probed, promises to shoulder clients' costs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Oct 13, 2017
Kobe Steel cheating scandal driven by competition to improve metals, especially for automakers
Behind the scandal engulfing Kobe Steel Ltd. over the falsification of data for some of the materials it supplied is a harsh reality for Japanese steel companies: the need to provide higher and higher quality metals to compete.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2017
Japanese firms give telecommuting a try on designated day to ease rush hour congestion
It's Monday morning. You roll out of bed, grab a coffee, sit on the couch and you're already at work. Sound good? Well, that's how the government wants you to work.
EDITORIALS
Jun 1, 2017
Amended privacy protection law
Efforts must be made to ensure that tightened rules on the handling of personal data does not deter the disclosure or flow of necessary information in the name of privacy protection.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2017
Chinese learning the value of privacy
If China's biggest online players want to chart a bigger role for themselve at home and abroad, they're going to need to start taking privacy much more seriously.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 23, 2017
How data geeks could enable mass deportation
Technology companies have databases that document people's ethnicity, religion and other personal information on a massive scale.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2016
Foreign-owned IT firms to challenge Trump's concept of 'American'
Open up the guts of the U.S. government — something President-elect Donald Trump hinted he will do — and what do you see?
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
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.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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?
By Kathryn Wortley

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