Tokyo's key Nikkei index closed down more than three per cent today after US Fed Chair Jerome Powell signalled an interest rate hike is likely in March. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index sank 3.11 per ... ( read original story ...)
Winter Olympics: Covid control with Chinese characteristics. What Beijing has learned from Tokyo ahead of second pandemic Games
Entire event will take place within a closed loop covering competition venues, living quarters and other facilities. Organisers taking stringent approach despite little evidence that rise in cases in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Osaka Steel keeps section prices flat for Feb sales
Osaka Steel, Japan's largest steel sections producer, has decided to keep its prices for February domestic sales unchanged for the third month, to give another month for the spot market to digest the ... ( read original story ...)
Thick fog causes pile-up on expressway near Tokyo, 19 injured
TOKYO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- A pile-up involving 12 vehicles on an expressway in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo amid dense fog injured 19 people, local authorities said on Thursday. The multiple-vehicle ... ( read original story ...)
19 injured in expressway pileup near Tokyo amid fog advisory
Nineteen people were injured on Thursday after a pileup involving 12 vehicles on an expressway in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)
How the Mayor of Tokyo Helped Give Citizen Watches Its Name
Unlike Seiko and Casio—the remaining Japanese Big Three—local language and family lineage didn’t play a part. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mitsubishi, energy body join Gates’ nuclear project
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency say they have signed an agreement to participate in a next-generation nuclear energy project with TerraPower, a company started by Bill G ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s favourite snack falls victim to global inflation with first-ever price hike
Umaibo, a crunchy corn snack that means ‘delicious stick’, increases in price from ¥10 to ¥12 – the first rise in the face of higher import costs ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks open mixed on dip-buying, U.S. rate hike concern
Tokyo stocks opened mixed Thursday as dip-buying following the Nikkei index's recent fall was offset by concern that an interest rate hike in the United States could come soon. In the first 15 minutes ... ( read original story ...)
Sushi restaurant in Tokyo serves up a plate of ‘old guy’ for only 200 yen
Such is the case with Oedo, a chain of revolving sushi restaurants found scattered around Tokyo and Chiba. It was just by chance that our reporter Yuichiro Wasai entered his local Oedo and found ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks open higher after mixed US close
Tokyo stocks opened higher in cautious trade today following a mixed close on Wall Street after Fed Chair Jerome Powell signalled an interest rate hike is likely in March. The benchmark Nikkei 225 ... ( read original story ...)
Panasonic, Toyota & Tokyo Uni join forces to further battery circular economy
Panasonic and Toyota have started joint research with the University of Tokyo on battery resources and recycling. In addition to CO2 neutrality, the aim of the project is to reduce production costs in ... ( read original story ...)
Paris Olympics: Jessica Fox reveals special behind-the-scene moment after Tokyo gold medal loss
Jessica Fix cried publicly and privately when unexpected errors in her race deprived her of a gold medal in her first event at the Tokyo Olympics. ( read original story ...)
Rowing-Triple Olympic great Bond retires after Tokyo glory
Rower Hamish Bond announced his retirement on Thursday, bringing down the curtain on a glittering career during which he became the first New Zealand man to win gold at three consecutive Olympics. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s tight border rules threaten foreign investment, business groups say
The largest international business group in Japan has warned that the country’s tight border restrictions risk staunching foreign investment and crushing Tokyo’s efforts to compete as a global ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Strict Covid Entry Ban Criticized at Home and Abroad
Delia Visser had dreamed of moving to Japan since spending time there as a teenager in 2014. After the country’s borders again slammed shut to non-resident foreigners in November, she switched her ... ( read original story ...)