Tag: Yokohama

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electron on Tuesday hiked its operating profit forecast for the year ending March 2025 by 8.5% to 680 billion yen ($4.42 billion) amid chip industry investment supported by the ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged more than $65 billion of fresh support for the nation’s semiconductor and artificial intelligence sector as Tokyo looks to keep up with a global spending ... ( read original story ...)

Carlyle, Warburg Pincus and a host of global investment firms plan to beef up headcount in Japan as deals here surge, but the country's relatively low number of buyouts for much of the past two ... ( read original story ...)

Miho Hashino's body bore approximately 30 injuries, including cuts and stab wounds that suggest she tried to fight off her attacker. ( read original story ...)

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura has decided to run in the leadership race of Japan's second-largest opposition party slated to be held ... ( read original story ...)

As part of a restructuring initiative, U.S. Forces Japan is looking into appropriating an Army compound in central Tokyo as the command weighs a move from the city’s western suburbs potentially to a ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government is not planning any tax hike to finance its 10 trillion yen ($65 billion) plan to support domestic semiconductor and artificial intelligence projects, industry minister Yoji Muto said on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government is planning to continue gasoline subsidies next year with phased in reductions, the Nikkei newspaper said on Tuesday. In a draft economic stimulus plan, the subsidies will continue in 2025, ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Democratic Party for the People will nominate its head Yuichiro Tamaki for the premiership vote as planned following a report about his personal life. ( read original story ...)

A 21-year-old man, attending a university in Tokyo and studying to become a social worker, asked for protection from police officers who arri ... ( read original story ...)

After an initial vote failed, with no candidate getting a majority, Ishiba bested Yoshihiko Noda, the president of Japan's Constitutional Democratic Party and the LDP's main political opposition with 221 votes to Noda's 160 and 84 invalid ballots that ... ( read original story ...)

Temperatures are cooling in Japan, but interest in visiting shows no signs of abating, as autumn arrivals continue to outpace pre-pandemic levels. ( read original story ...)

Japan is developing an innovative project to connect Tokyo and Osaka via a "conveyor road", an automated route designed to address the growing demand for delivery services and the shortage of drivers. ( read original story ...)

Yokohama has been building ties with Northampton College by providing educational talks on logistics and by donating a retired lorry for its mechanical students to practice their skills. It was after ... ( read original story ...)

Shigeru Ishiba's scandal-tarnished coalition lost its parliamentary majority in a lower house election late last month. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Police said Monday they have launched an investigation after the kanji character for "death" was found graffitied on two spots of a stone wall at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in ... ( read original story ...)