Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga hit record lows, polls for two major newspapers showed on Monday, turning up the heat on the unpopular premier less than a month before he …
Indonesia approves plan to develop Ubadari gas field, Vorwata carbon project
Mitsubishi Corp (8058.T) and other Japanese firms said on Monday an Indonesian regulator has approved their plan to develop the new Ubadari gas field and raise output at the existing Vorwata gas field …
Author Murakami criticizes Japan PM over pandemic measures
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami in his monthly radio show Sunday criticized the country’s prime minister, saying Yoshihide Suga has ignored a growing COVID-19 surge and public concerns about the …
Japan can expect consumption recovery in October as vaccination rates pick up: Goldman Sachs
Tomohiro Ota of Goldman Sachs says retail sales are expected to improve as the Japanese government eases Covid restrictions. However, if the delta variant surges again, the retightening of measures …
Japan’s Gunma prefecture reports contaminant in Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
A contaminant was found in Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday in Japan’s Gunma prefecture, near Tokyo, the latest such case in the country involving the U.S. company’s vaccines.
Princeton Digital Group to Pour 2.1 Trillion Rupah for Data Center Expansion in Indonesia
PDG is a data center provider company in Asia based in Singapore. Currently, PDG has 19 data centers spread across five countries, namely China, Japan, Singapore, India, and Indonesia …
New Japanese business cards beat pandemic masking with beaming smiles
NAGOYA — “Nice to meet you, this is what I look like!” That’s the idea behind a line of business cards printed with the lower half of the bearer’s face, the half often covered by a mask in these …
Japan’s huge army of under-employed ex-housewives
There are plenty of smart, educated women in Japan who could be driving the country out of its current economic slump to a stunning pandemic recovery. But the country’s rigid hiring system – and …
Germany and Japan rebuilt postwar; we can do the same after Covid
Germany and Japan were the star performers in the global economy for decades after the end of the Second World War. This did not happen by accident. One big fac …
Tokyo Paralympics: Jason Smyth leans on experience to find golden moment in Japan
An injury-hit build-up prevented Jason Smyth from arriving in Tokyo in peak form, but the Irishman still found the smart route to gold …