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Fuji Media shares drop as buyback plan heralds activist...

Under the plan, Fuji Media will repurchase up to ¥235 billion of its own shares.

JAL says passenger revenue in December was 20% short fo...

The drop was attributed to Beijing advice to Chinese citizens to refrain from tr...

DeepL to release AI-powered interpretation software in ...

The software will integrate speech recognition and machine translation technolog...

Rengo head urges wide-ranging changes for gender equality

Tomoko Yoshino, Rengo’s first female leader, said that the proportion of women i...

Top consulting firms test boundaries with China workaro...

Faced with a fraught geopolitical environment, global consultancies are turning ...

Katayama says Takaichi wasn’t emphasizing weak yen merit

Takaichi's comments suggested she was trying to preserve speculation over govern...

Supply snags and political turmoil undercut aviation gr...

Planemakers such as ‍Boeing have faced supply chain problems since the COVID-19 ...

Japan's farm, food and fishery exports in 2025 set reco...

The total failed to reach the government's target of ¥2 trillion for 2025 even t...

Nochu to recapitalize JV hit by $1 billion First Brands...

JA Mitsui Leasing will book a $968 million allowance on the collapsed U.S. auto-...

JR East given administrative guidance over service halts

The company’s executive vice president and chief safety officer was summoned ove...

BOJ summary suggests emerging urgency around timely rat...

The summary signals the possibility of Gov. Kazuo Ueda’s board raising the bench...

China AI deals push Hong Kong listings to busiest start...

Initial public offerings fetched about $5 billion last month, the highest total ...

Nomura shares drop after profit falls more than estimated

The stock slid as much as 5.3% on Monday morning in Tokyo before paring the decl...

U.S. container growth vanishes with world trade flows ‘...

Trump tariffs have led major economies to reduce their reliance on the American ...

Natural treasure: Tile company finds global audience wi...

In lush Gifu Prefecture lays a distinct kind of buried treasure: clay, upon whic...

Small firms in Japan struggling to raise wages

It is difficult for small companies to narrow the pay gap with large corporation...