BUSINESS
Sony names finance chief Hiroki Totoki as its next CEO
Kenichiro Yoshida, the outgoing CEO, will remain as chairperson of the board.
DeepSeek tests Meta’s ambition for U.S. open-source AI ...
Mark Zuckerberg has long championed Meta’s open-source approach to artificial in...
Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok
Microsoft emerged as a top bidder in 2020, but the talks soon collapsed, and a d...
Rare China support shows Vanke may be too big to fail
The unusual support shows that Vanke holds a special place within China’s moribu...
Ishiba’s government taps academic Koeda to join BOJ board
In 2022, Koeda argued in a column in the Nikkei newspaper that it’s important to...
Norinchukin urged to tap outside expertise and diversif...
A government panel has advised the bank to increase members of its board with ex...
Honda sets its sights on 50% share of world’s motorcycl...
The company's global motorcycle sales are forecast to reach 20.2 million for the...
Trump pledges tariffs ‘much bigger’ than 2.5% and on ke...
The American president's remarks were the latest in a string of major signals th...
Keidanren sets ¥200 trillion capital spending target fo...
The target was unveiled at a joint meeting of the public and private sectors to ...
Citi analysts say Trump can’t reverse energy transition
Despite the Trump administration’s determination to shred Biden-era climate prot...
DeepSeek’s AI model tests limits of U.S. restrictions o...
Powerful AI software from the Chinese startup indicates its engineers built a co...
Trump should uphold TikTok ban and allow Nippon Steel d...
Both positions are more in line with traditional Republican orthodoxy.
Nissan eyes cuts without resorting to plant closures, s...
The carmaker will focus on reducing and consolidating existing production lines ...
Nippon Life to revamp overseas business operations afte...
Japan’s biggest life insurer will establish a new headquarters division in late ...
Why is the AI world freaking out over China's DeepSeek?
DeepSeek has far-reaching implications for the global tech industry, upending th...
Brookfield seeks to buy more property in Japan after $1...
There has been a trend of increased foreign investor activity in Japanese real e...
