About 35,000 toy items from 190 Japanese and foreign companies are being showcased at International Tokyo Toy Show 2024. ( read original story ...)
Nikkei reporter arrested after texting man at Japan news outlet 64 times
Police have arrested a female reporter for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily on suspicion of violating the Anti-Stalking Act for allege ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Consumer Confidence Remains Stable
Japan's consumer sentiment held steady in August after rising slightly in the previous month, survey data from the Cabinet Office ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Kirin clinched Fancl takeover to propel health pivot, president says
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Kirin Holdings has secured enough shares to take ... MY.Alpha, which has managed the Asian hedge fund business of York Capital Management Global Advisors, did not reply to a ... ( read original story ...)
How Japan Airlines Is Leaning On Its Third-Party MRO Business
How Japan Airlines Is Leaning On Its Third-Party MRO Business is part of our Aviation Week & Space Technology - Inside MRO and AWIN subscriptions. Subscribe now to read this content, plus receive full ... ( read original story ...)
Cannabis retailer Tokyo Smoke to close 29 stores amid creditor protection proceedings
Tokyo Smoke says the moves are meant to better align its operations ... The owner of Inspire Studio in Minnedosa is dealing with a bit of a head-scratcher, as the statue outside her business has been ... ( read original story ...)
Tsuruga No.2 reactor in central Japan fails restart safety review
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has decided that the No.2 reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture failed to pass its restart safety review. ( read original story ...)
Seven & I seeking govt protection tests Japan’s appetite for reform
The Japanese operator of 7-Eleven stores is seeking designation as a core company under the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act ... ( read original story ...)
Toyota shutters Japan factories as typhoon approaches
Auto giant Toyota is suspending production at all its factories in Japan because of an approaching typhoon, the company said Wednesday."From today's ... ( read original story ...)
Easy Japanese news in translation: 7 quake-evacuated penguins shown in Tokyo before return
Seven Magellanic penguins that had been evacuated from Notojima Aquarium in the city of Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, were shown to the public for one d ... ( read original story ...)
Collector Kankuro Ueshima on His Prodigious Art Buying, Starting a Tokyo Museum, and Emerging Artists in Japan
The 45-year-old Japanese collector tells us how he went from building a collection of international contemporary art to opening a private museum in Tokyo. ( read original story ...)
BOJ may add wage-related items to Tankan business survey
The Bank of Japan says it may add wage-related questions to its quarterly Tankan survey of domestic business sentiment. ( read original story ...)
IKEA launches new urban store model in Tokyo’s Shibuya
TOKYO -- Swedish furniture giant IKEA reopened its renovated location in Tokyo's Shibuya ward on Tuesday as an experimental store with large digital displays and an emphasis on online shopping, as the ... ( read original story ...)
‘Cat employees’ at Tokyo office boost efficiency for human co-workers
TOKYO -- A system engineering firm here has 11 unusual employees ... so having the cats interrupt us is just the right amount of change of pace." When the business purchased the four-story building ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s police to deploy AI-powered drones in disaster-hit areas to deter looters
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated north-east Japan and killed more than 20,000 people and its aftermath was still relatively fresh in many people’s minds, Ishizuka said. Millions ... ( read original story ...)
UCLA Study Reveals Two Epicenters Behind Japan’s Violent Noto Earthquake on New Year’s Day
The first seven months of 2024 have been so eventful, it’s easy to forget that the year started off with a magnitude 7.5 earthquake centered beneath Japan’s Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day. The earth ... ( read original story ...)