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Idol game app firm collapses as data shows bankruptcies up 7% on year

Idol game app firm collapses as data shows bankruptcies...

Even as share indexes reach record highs on the back of corporate profits, bankr...

Heat waves expose insurance gap as European business losses mount

Heat waves expose insurance gap as European business lo...

Moody's estimates that last summer's European heat waves cost €43 billion ‌in lo...

Akita eyes AI data center that could become Japan’s largest

Akita eyes AI data center that could become Japan’s lar...

Two firms are cooperating with the city and prefecture to make the center a hub ...

What Bessent’s economic isolation of Iran could look like

What Bessent’s economic isolation of Iran could look like

While the Trump administration hasn't said what it's planning to do, there are s...

China’s 32,000-kilometer solar trade route that battled U.S. tariffs

China’s 32,000-kilometer solar trade route that battled...

The route let companies to obscure work done in China and Indonesia to deliver s...

New shinkansen model delivered to Taiwan

New shinkansen model delivered to Taiwan

The N700ST is based on the latest shinkansen model of JR Central, producing less...

Japan companies step up efforts to prevent heatstroke

Japan companies step up efforts to prevent heatstroke

Among some of the measures are summer shifts that avoid the hottest time of the ...

U.S. to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China 

U.S. to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race w...

Washington is warning other nations they will be excluded from a U.S.-led coalit...

Bessent asked to justify yen intervention in letter from top Democrat

Bessent asked to justify yen intervention in letter fro...

The request extends the senior Democrat's pattern of scrutinizing the Trump admi...

Google opens first directly run store outside U.S. in Tokyo

Google opens first directly run store outside U.S. in T...

The store sells smartphones and offers repair services.

Japan’s inflation paradox is creating winners and losers

Japan’s inflation paradox is creating winners and losers

The rising cost of living is challenging Takaichi's triumphant rhetoric about Ja...

Carry traders exploit intervention to rebuild yen shorts

Carry traders exploit intervention to rebuild yen shorts

Every intervention to prop up the yen also creates a fresh opportunity to sell it.

Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Alibaba’s support, sources say

Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Ali...

The move is a departure from the iPhone maker's strategy of relying on third-par...

Japan’s power futures get boost as utilities hedge price risk

Japan’s power futures get boost as utilities hedge pric...

Fuel prices have been volatile since the outbreak of the Iran war in late February.

Ice cream makers bet consumers still want treats, just healthier ones

Ice cream makers bet consumers still want treats, just ...

Companies may be enjoying a summer sales boost, but behind the scenes they are p...

Tokyo Kiraboshi to consolidate consulting and systems divisions

Tokyo Kiraboshi to consolidate consulting and systems d...

In May, the regional banking group fully repaid ¥40 billion in public funds to t...