BUSINESS

Japanese chip sector’s earnings show AI appetite and au...

Government backing and sustained AI investment are reinforcing optimism across t...

Profitable firms cut jobs as activist investors and TSE...

A wave of voluntary and early retirement programs in Japan that overwhelmingly t...

Takaichi pushes back against company's focus on shareho...

The Prime Minister's comments flicked at her frustration with firms for not usin...

Stablecoins: boring goes big, and now in Japan

They are designed not to fluctuate in value, and that's precisely what makes the...

Yoshinoya predicts record China profit on new recipes

The beef bowl chain redesigned menus, offering items with vegetable toppings and...

Disney eyes ESPN expansion in Asia to boost streaming c...

The company aims to add more live sports to Disney+ and gradually roll out ESPN ...

Japan Exchange looks at ways to curb crypto hoarding firms

The Tokyo Stock Exchange operator is exploring options including a stricter appl...

Producer prices rose 2.7% on year in October, with agri...

The producer price index, which measures the cost of goods traded between busine...

SBI Shinsei Bank targets ¥400 billion Tokyo IPO for val...

The lender was taken private in 2023 to repay Shinsei’s government bailout, whic...

Japan’s Seven Bank mulls investing in FamilyMart card a...

The Tokyo-based bank is looking for areas beyond its main business of operating ...

Elliott takes Toyota Industries stake and sees buyout p...

Toyota Industries disclosed in a filing that Elliott Investment Management had a...

Concentration of corporate power a 'huge' concern: U.N....

In an interview, Volker Turk pointed out how seven or eight big tech companies n...

SoftBank sells Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion to fund AI...

The Tokyo-based company now boasts a portfolio that includes some of the world’s...

German court rules against OpenAI in copyright case

OpenAI has faced court cases in the U.S. regarding their ChatGPT, but the challe...

Cyberattack leaves Asahi struggling as rival brewers ga...

The ransomware attack on Asahi Group Holdings disabled its internal system that ...

Shiseido seen logging record annual net loss of ¥52 bil...

Shiseido said that about 200 jobs at the company and a subsidiary will be shed t...