Tag: business

It’s been nearly a decade since Japan widened the scope for arms exports, but there is little to show for the policy change. ( read original story ...)

House of Representatives lawmaker Masatoshi Akimoto has been indicted for taking bribes from a former president of a wind power company after being as･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is no longer in deflation but policymakers need to ensure prices do not slide back into contraction, economy minister Yoshitaka Shindo said on Friday, suggesting authorities are still concerned ... ( read original story ...)

Sony Group is increasing its focus on the virtual production business where it is seeing market-beating growth, a company executive said, riding on the strength of the Japanese entertainment ... ( read original story ...)

Travelers from Japan, Trinidad, the U.S. and beyond traveled to the electric streets of Tokyo and verdant countryside to celebrate Caribbean culture. ( read original story ...)

Sales will go ahead at some stores in eastern Japan's Kanto region on Dec. 1, and from late December, they will be sold across Japan. Reservations will be accepted until Nov. 27. (Japanese original by Yuka Kato, Business News Department) ( read original story ...)

TIFFCOM, the rights market that sits alongside the Tokyo International Film Festival, is celebrating its return to an in-person format for the first time since 2019, with a move to another venue and ... ( read original story ...)

Japan and the United States. One company is pushing to tap two of those markets: Tokyo-based lunar lander company ispace is rebooting its U.S. subsidiary, aiming to be a key transportation provider in ... ( read original story ...)

"China will still make unremitting efforts to persuade South Korea and Japan to return to the track of regional cooperation," expert Zhan Debin told Newsweek. ( read original story ...)

Pfizer is partnering up with Boston synthetic biology firm Ginkgo Bioworks, plus other life sciences news you may have missed. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the central government, the Kumamoto prefecture and a chemical company to recognize more than 120 plaintiffs as patients of the decades-old Minamata ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese lower house lawmaker was indicted Wednesday for receiving bribes from a wind power firm in exchange for exercising his inf ... ( read original story ...)

Delta Air Lines has abandoned its plan for twice-daily nonstop flights between Portland and Tokyo’s Haneda airport, flights announced before the COVID-19 pandemic but never launched. ( read original story ...)

The owner of a Japanese restaurant damaged in a massive fire has filed a temporary injunction to stop the city from demolishing the building. Osaka Japanese Restaurant at 426 W. Market St. was damaged ... ( read original story ...)

A growing movement opposing a highly controversial redevelopment of a historic Tokyo park has submitted a fresh petition in its campaign to get the national government to intervene and revise the plan ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said there was "very high uncertainty" over whether companies would continue raising prices and wages, stressing anew the bank's resolve to maintain ultra-loose ... ( read original story ...)