BUSINESS

CEO of Salonpas maker seeks to take $2.9 billion drug f...

A growing list of companies are exiting the public market to shield themselves f...

Is the AI boom a bubble waiting to pop? Here’s what his...

Investors are increasingly asking if we’re living through another financial bubb...

Japan retail investors ignore domestic bull market to o...

Individuals unloaded a net $24.3 billion of Japanese stocks and related investme...

Investors face more geopolitical whiplash from Trump’s ...

Market reaction was fairly muted with stocks rising, oil prices volatile and gol...

Ueda highlights BOJ’s intention to keep raising rate to...

The central bank raised its benchmark rate to 0.75% on Dec. 19, the highest leve...

‘Tuna King’ pays record ¥510.3 million for bluefin at T...

Sushizanmai boss Kiyoshi Kimura paid the top price at the annual new year auctio...

Goldman seeks to raise $500 million for Japan real esta...

The firm has been pitching investors in recent months, capitalizing on a resurge...

Despite Maduro's capture, there are no quick wins in ta...

The South American country may have the world's largest estimated oil reserves, ...

The very best is on the menu for business travelers flo...

From around the world they come, staying at Japan’s luxury hotels and dining at ...

Japan policy wonks consumed by debate over how to measu...

Ignoring the primary budget balance just obscures the problem, one side argues.

Tesla loses EV crown to China's BYD in 2025 as sales slip

Investors have paid little mind to Tesla’s decline in the global EV pecking orde...

Wall Street carries big expectations after best run sin...

As markets move deeper into 2026, the concern is not that last year’s rally was ...

Grok makes sexual images of kids as users test AI guard...

X's AI tool created and published images of minors in minimal clothing, in appar...

Inside China’s six-decade campaign to dominate rare earths

From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, generations of Chinese Communist Party bosses ...

Mercari goes global with anime and manga leading the way

It wants to be the go-to marketplace for international customers seeking high-qu...

New Year's sales start at major department stores

Sogo & Seibu's Sogo store in Yokohama prepared about 30,000 lucky bags, includin...