With just over two months before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, Japan is expanding its state of emergency to try and contain a more infectious strain of COVID-19.Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura …
China Closes In On Japan At Beauty Giant Shiseido
Shiseido’s home market has underperformed during the pandemic while China’s consistently strong growth has tilted the company’s geographic weighting at lightning speed.
Maker of expensive Japanese toaster gets into smartphone business
Balmuda, a Japanese design company known for its stylish appliances, has announced plans to make a smartphone. There aren’t many details on the device itself yet, but it’ll be a 5G handset that’s …
Myanmar jails local journalist, to free Japanese reporter
Min Nyo, who worked for the Democratic Voice of Burma was arrested on March 3 and was sentenced to three years in jail.
Myanmar to release arrested Japanese journalist
A Japanese journalist who was arrested in Myanmar last month and later charged with spreading fake news will be released, state media said Thursday.Yuki Kitazumi was the first foreign journalist known …
EXPLAINER: Why Japan has been slow to roll out vaccinations
Japan’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began belatedly in mid-February, months behind the United States and many other countries. Officials blamed a shortage of Pfizer Inc. vaccine from Europe as the …
Coronavirus live news: Japan prefectures to declare emergency; calls for ‘surge vaccinations’ in UK
Japan will declare a state of emergency in three more prefectures; Greece launches tourism season; UK shadow health secretary calls for ‘surge vaccinations’ as India variant cases double …
In surprise move, Japan to add 3 more prefectures to state of emergency
Japan has decided to add three more prefectures hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic to a state of emergency, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Friday, in a surprise move reflecting ‘ growing …
CEOs Criticize Japan’s Slow Vaccine Push, Saying Growth at Risk
Business executives in Japan are starting to voice concerns over what they see as an unacceptably slow vaccine rollout in one of the world’s richest countries, a rare chorus of warnings over …
Japan Inc braced for fresh hostile bids
Hostile takeovers used to be so rare in Japan that most companies could comfortably assume they would never happen. A powerful taboo kept the vast majority of listed businesses untouched by these …