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CHIBA, Japan — The Japanese video game industry is finding its way out of the doldrums by adapting new technology for decades-old titles. And that energy was evident at the annual Tokyo Game Show, which opened to media Thursday before opening to the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — The Japanese creator of the first emoji wanted to add nuance to mobile phone messages and never imagined what he created in 1998 would become a global phenomenon. Shigetaka Kurita says he was rushing to meet a deadline at his phone company when ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Amazon.com has launched its business-to-business operation in Japan, where the U.S. tech giant is expected to carve out space against long-established rivals well-versed in this country's corporate norms. All-in-one solution Debuting in April 2015 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - With no platform, no party leader and not even a formal name, a nascent political party linked to popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is preparing for a snap election that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to call ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Tokyo shares ended little changed Wednesday after hitting a more than two-year high, but Nintendo surged on hopes for strong sales of its Switch games console. The Super Mario maker jumped 4.73 percent to 42,890 yen, adding to a more than seven ... ( read original story ...)

and the Development Bank of Japan - to invest in the business only after any arbitration with Western Digital is settled. But sources familiar with the talks have said it remains unclear if INCJ will commit to joining the consortium even when the legal ... ( read original story ...)

Inaki Berenguer, the CEO of CoverWallet, a New York-based fintech company, told Business Insider that the proposed sandbox in Japan would help foster an environment in which entrepreneurs have more leeway to innovate. While such an environment is ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index on Tuesday morning rose past 20,000 for the first time in six weeks after Wall Street saw another record close and a weak yen lifted exporters. The bellwether Nikkei 225 index climbed 1.45 percent, or 288.06 points, to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co Ltd , Japan's top electric-arc furnace steelmaker, said on Tuesday it would raise its product prices for a second month in October due to higher overseas prices and a tight domestic market. The ... ( read original story ...)

Taking place at the Global Business Hub in the heart of Tokyo, the Money20/20 Tokyo roadshow aims to engage with and learn from the Japanese FinTech ecosystem in advance of the inaugural Money20/20 Asia conference - to be held in Singapore, March 13-15 th ... ( read original story ...)

Read expert review Yurakucho, a bustling business district – loosely linking Hibiya to Tokyo Station – is home to countless shops, restaurants (from the exclusively high-end to the tiny and atmospheric salaryman-packed venues that sit beneath the ... ( read original story ...)

based business is banking on the growing popularity of the maitake ... an invitation from Joe Fontana while the former London mayor was on a trade mission to Japan. "Right now we are preparing to sell," said Odaira, speaking through his translator and ... ( read original story ...)

Investment Boost Away from the media glare, on the ground there was some serious business afoot, with both JICA and Jetro ( Japan External Trade Organisation) playing a critical role. Some 450 Japanese honchos congregated at the Gandhinagar summit earlier ... ( read original story ...)

“So the business is getting tougher every year.” And in Kawakami village, also in western Japan, the aging owner of the last pump stand handed the business for free to the village, and a public cooperative reopened it in April, offering various ... ( read original story ...)

"This is death to the family," Harvard sociologist Mary Brinton recently told Business Insider. Japan's centenarian population has been rising year over year since 1971, when there were just 339 centenarians. Last year, government data showed there were ... ( read original story ...)

of India told Business Standard. Exports of soymeal - a processed soyabean product rich in proteins used as animal feed - to Japan greatly reduced in the wake of sustained high price compared to a low international price in 2014-15 and 2015-16. ( read original story ...)