Tag: business

State of Affairs - Debate Over 'Packing' the Court, Little Tokyo Business Survives Pandemic But At Great Personal Cost, Why Memes Are Popular NFTs ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga have agreed to jointly invest $4.5 billion for the development of next-generation communication known as 6G, or "beyond 5G." The two ... ( read original story ...)

In 1964, less than two decades removed from World War II, Japan used the Summer Olympics to showcase its astonishing recovery from a horrific defeat ... ( read original story ...)

Yoga classes and vinyl records aren’t typical features of the traditional Japanese sento (public bathhouse) but these are challenging times for the bath business and Takuya Shimbo, owner of two such ... ( read original story ...)

President Joe Biden and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga are showcasing the alliance between their two countries as well as their shared resolve in dealing with China. ( read original story ...)

Little Tokyo restaurateur Kenji Suzuki was nervous about a pandemic with too many unknowns. Adding to his anxiety: he's in partial remission from leukemia, meaning the cancer is still there, just less ... ( read original story ...)

Little Tokyo restaurateur Kenji Suzuki was nervous about a pandemic with too many unknowns. Adding to his anxiety: he's in partial remission from leukemia, meaning the cancer is still there, just less ... ( read original story ...)

Vietnam's health ministry called for the acceleration of its COVID-19 vaccine rollout on Friday as the expiry date of the Southeast Asian country's first batch of jabs supplied through the COVAX ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese companies need to pay attention; things are going to change. President Biden chaired the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee while in the Senate, and those are two areas ... ( read original story ...)

The Biden administration in no rush to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership as it reviews inherited trade policies and focuses on its domestic agenda. ( read original story ...)

The head of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday was again forced to assure the world that the postponed games will open in just over three months ... ( read original story ...)

The mascot was pulled after just one day because people thought the cuteness of the character did not match the seriousness of the issue. ( read original story ...)

Japan aims to double its inter-regional power grid capacity by adding up to 23 gigawatts to help speed expansion of renewable energy such as offshore wind farms, the Nikkei business daily said on its ... ( read original story ...)

In a quiet residential neighborhood of southern Osaka, the transition of a private house licensed to take in lodgers into a so-called ... ( read original story ...)

Japan placed Tokyo under a new, month-long state of "quasi-emergency" on Friday to combat surging COVID-19 infections, less than a month after the capital and host of the Summer Olympics lifted a ... ( read original story ...)

You wouldn't think a heavy metal kid from Washington, D.C. would be a natural fit for the Land of the Rising Sun. But Japan, and Tokyo in particular, has been ... ( read original story ...)