Twenty million train rides are taken daily in the Tokyo. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of employees in Tokyo will work from home for two weeks as part of a trial of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan trade minister blasts South Korea for ‘mistaken’ explanation after bilateral meeting
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko said on Tuesday it was "regrettable" that the South Korean government had made what he said was an erroneous explanation after the two sides ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei falls as China’s slowing growth hurts sentiment; automakers buck weakness
TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei fell on Tuesday as slowing economic growth in China hurt investor sentiment, but automakers outperformed on a media report that China will rely more on hybrid ... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank-backed startup preps $500m IPO to make Pepper smarter
SoftBank Robotics' own android Pepper has been adopted by thousands of businesses in Japan. Last year, SoftBank inked a deal with Chinese electronics giant Haier, which now uses the Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Cites ‘National Security’ in Free Trade Crackdown. Sound Familiar?
“If the investigation concludes that our government has done nothing wrong, Japan should immediately withdraw its retaliatory export restrictions,” Kim You-geun, a senior South Korean national ... ( read original story ...)
Japan in tight spot in tussle with Russia over isles near Hokkaido
TOKYO -- It appears that the grand bargain proposed almost three years ago by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to bring an end to a territorial dispute with Russia has not panned out. ... ( read original story ...)
Hakuho suffers first defeat in Nagoya; Kakuryu remains unbeaten
NAGOYA - Hakuho suffered his first loss of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday, as fellow yokozuna Kakuryu kept his spotless record to take the sole lead. In the penultimate match of Day 9 at ... ( read original story ...)
South Korean business owners call for boycott of Japanese goods
Dozens of South Korean small-business owners rallied in South Korea’s capital on Monday calling for boycotts of Japanese consumer goods to protest Tokyo’s move to tighten high-tech exports to its ... ( read original story ...)
Hold the beers: Budweiser APAC IPO fail shows valuations face investor push-back
For now I would say we have an operating IPO market with cautious investors - that's a good ... Budweiser APAC's range compared with a ratio of 11 for both parent AB InBev and for Japan's Kirin ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM Abe’s ruling bloc set for solid upper house win: polls
Similar polls taken by other media outlets, including the Kyodo news agency, showed support for ... bloc and other smaller parties including the Japan Innovation Party, which support ... ( read original story ...)
Constitutional revision hangs in balance of Japan’s election
The LDP leads in about 70% of the 32 single-seat districts, mainly in western Japan, Nikkei's nationwide poll and research show. Of the districts with two to six seats, the ruling party is ... ( read original story ...)
An American ninja in Nagoya
Making their debut in 2015, the troupe holds weekend performances at Nagoya Castle, drawing crowds of local visitors and overseas tourists with gravity-defying stunts, martial arts and swordsmanship. ... ( read original story ...)
Japan-South Korea feud deepens with disputed accounts of trade meeting
told reporters as he was leaving Japan on Saturday. In response, Iwamatsu, director of METI's trade control policy division, told a hastily arranged news conference: "We've checked the record of the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Bandai Namco looks for life after Gundam anime
The company will join Japan's blue-chip Nikkei 225 Stock Average on Aug. 1, reflecting its rising fortunes. For fiscal 2020, it is targeting 750 billion yen in sales and 75 billion yen in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan struck by mega earthquake – centre to the north of Okinawan Islands
The United States Geological Survey confirmed the tremor hit north of the Okinawan islands. The islands are part of the wider Ryukyu Islands chain and are south of the main Japanese islands of ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese space probe makes another landing on asteroid
The Hayabusa2 space probe on Thursday successfully completed a second landing on the asteroid Ryugu after its first landing in February, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said. ... ( read original story ...)