BUSINESS

Toilet-maker Toto hikes capital expenditures to meet AI demand for its ceramics

Toilet-maker Toto hikes capital expenditures to meet AI...

The company is capitalizing on an unexpected surge in demand from chip gear make...

China extends outbound investment curbs to individual investors

China extends outbound investment curbs to individual i...

The new rules, released Monday by China's cabinet, broadened the definition of "...

SoftBank among the bidders for Blackstone’s Japanese payment firm

SoftBank among the bidders for Blackstone’s Japanese pa...

Japan's cashless payments market has expanded for more than a decade as consumer...

Boston Consulting Group exec urges Japan to clarify purpose of investment

Boston Consulting Group exec urges Japan to clarify pur...

Reiko Akiike, co-chair of Boston Consulting Group Japan, says she has strong exp...

Australian LNG union begins strikes at Tokyo-based Inpex’s Ichthys plant

Australian LNG union begins strikes at Tokyo-based Inpe...

Ichthys accounts for about 2% of global output for liquefied natural gas and has...

Salesforce Japan to focus on helping firms deploy AI effectively

Salesforce Japan to focus on helping firms deploy AI ef...

Salesforce Japan's CEO said firms often have fragmented systems in which data is...

Seven Bank-developed ATMs made available at FamilyMart stores

Seven Bank-developed ATMs made available at FamilyMart ...

The new ATMs offer services similar to those of regular Seven Bank ATMs.

Japan’s duty-free sales climb in May as tourism boom endures

Japan’s duty-free sales climb in May as tourism boom en...

Japanese department stores are rebounding from a shaky start to the year as ling...

South Korea overtakes India as world’s sixth-largest stock market

South Korea overtakes India as world’s sixth-largest st...

Memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have powered the country's eq...

Nikkei ends at record high on Middle East optimism

Nikkei ends at record high on Middle East optimism

The benchmark index of 225 selected issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's ...

Nvidia enters Windows PC market, taking on Intel and AMD

Nvidia enters Windows PC market, taking on Intel and AMD

Its new RTX Spark Superchip will debut this fall in laptops and desktops running...

SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan’s most valuable company

SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan’s most valuable company

Shares of the Masayoshi Son-led technology group climbed 14% in Tokyo trading, p...

Yen defies record intervention as wait for BOJ hike raises risks

Yen defies record intervention as wait for BOJ hike rai...

The currency underperformed all its Group-of-10 peers in May despite record spen...

Rush to buy air conditioners in Japan before pricier models hit next April

Rush to buy air conditioners in Japan before pricier mo...

The new models are expected to be pricier to meet the updated energy standards s...

Job recruitment officially kicks off in Japan for class of 2027

Job recruitment officially kicks off in Japan for class...

The government imposes a nonbinding "ban" on the recruitment of new graduates ev...

France eyes billions of investment in AI

France eyes billions of investment in AI

Some 200 top executives from around the world are expected at Versailles palace ...