BUSINESS

BOJ board member adds to signals pointing to interest r...

"I am convinced that continuing with further policy interest rate hikes will be ...

Tepco to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa No. 6 reactor on Mo...

Tepco restarted the reactor on Jan. 21 for the first time in 13 years and 10 mon...

Toyota appoints CFO Kenta Kon as new CEO

Koji Sato, current president and CEO of the world’s largest car company, will st...

Countries using internet blackouts to boost censorship,...

Governments in countries like Iran and Myanmar are emerging from internet shutdo...

Bets on big Takaichi win set Japanese stocks on path to...

Japanese stocks have already outperformed many of their developed-market peers, ...

Panasonic cuts profit estimates on restructuring costs

The company's operating profit is now projected at ¥290 billion, down from its p...

U.S., EU and Japan unveil critical-minerals partnership

Critical minerals include rare earth metals, which are key to the production of ...

TSMC plans major upgrade of Japan chip plant in win for...

The go-to chipmaker for Nvidia and Apple has decided to adopt cutting-edge techn...

Sony hikes profit outlook after resilient holiday-quart...

The Japanese conglomerate now expects operating profit of ¥1.54 trillion in the ...

Refiner Eneos to expand oil-trading portfolio outside o...

Eneos beefing up its trading presence is part of a broader push to create more v...

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...