Category: BUSINESS

Kadokawa is doubling down on anime. The Japanese media behemoth stated its intention to produce 40 animated titles a year by 2023, in a presentation covering the fiscal year that ended on March 31. To ... ( read original story ...)

This embrace of esports may prove the IOC’s least controversial move this year as the organization prepares to stage the delayed 2020 Olympics under a cloud of doubt about its safety with the Covid-19 ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's biggest oil and gas explorer Inpex Corp 1605.T raised its net profit forecast for 2021 by 40% on Thursday thanks to higher than expected oil prices but left its capital expenditure plans ... ( read original story ...)

Fourteen of 33 sectors in Japan were in the red or saw profits decline in the business year through March, a tally showed Thursday, highlighting a growing earnings divergence between manufacturers and ... ( read original story ...)

City hosts test event amid protests against organising Olympics Seated inside Tokyo’s new $1.4 billion National Stadium, Sebastian Coe again tried to reassure athletes and skeptical residents of Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Credit Suisse's Hiromichi Shirakawa talks about the possibility of the Tokyo Summer Olympics getting canceled. He also gives his economic outlook for Japan if the country is not able to avert a fifth ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's vaccine chief, Taro Kono, met with a top official of the country's biggest business lobby on Thursday to ask that companies help vaccinate workers, Kyodo News reported. ( read original story ...)

Transition to electric vehicles is the theme under which James Hong from Macquarie Capital highlights two companies that will do better than Toyota or Nissan ... ( read original story ...)

Jessica Pegula earned arguably the biggest victory of her career Wednesday, beating second-ranked Naomi Osaka in the Round of 32 at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome. Pegula ... ( read original story ...)

Serena Williams saw the 1,000th match of her illustrious career end in a straight-set defeat by Argentina's Nadia Podoroska at the ... ( read original story ...)

While much ink has been spilled over the imminent demise of Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, it would appear that the end is once again nigh ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp. returned to profitability for the fiscal year that ended in March, it said Wednesday, boosted by the strong performance of its sprawling ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's biggest oil refinery Eneos Holdings Inc 5020.T said on Wednesday it would exit the coal mining business and sell some upstream oil assets to raise cash, as it cut its mid-term profit target by ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka said rising COVID-19 levels in Tokyo are a ‘big cause for concern’ and she is ‘not really sure’ the Olympics should go ahead this summer. Tokyo is under a state of emergency amid a surge ... ( read original story ...)

Toyota says its profit more than doubled to 777 billion yen, or $7 billion, in the last quarter as the Japanese automaker’s sales recovered from the pandemic. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks fell Wednesday morning as drops on Wall Street for a second consecutive day overnight strengthened worries about the out ... ( read original story ...)