But the focus on strengthening supply chain links was especially acute in seismically active Japan, which has long been expecting another major quake in the industrial heartland along this country’s …
A tale of two earthquakes: In Japan, some lessons learned, others deferred
But the focus on strengthening supply chain links was especially acute in seismically active Japan, which has long been expecting another major quake in the industrial heartland along this country’s …
Japan COVID-19 Inoculations off to Snail Pace Start Due to Vaccine, Syringe Shortages
A medical worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine as Japan launches its inoculation campaign, at Tokyo Medical Center in Tokyo, Japan February …
Women workforce participation in Japan makes progress, but glass ceiling still exists
Japan is seeing a notable increase in female participation in the workforce – but there is still a glass ceiling when it comes to women in top leadership roles, according to Kathy Matsui, a former …
AP PHOTOS: Tsunami scars linger a decade later in Japan
Deserted farms stand in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear plant, where a catastrophic meltdown still reverberates. Ten years later, AP journalists have returned to document the communities that were …
Japan’s Green Future Means Reckoning With Its Nuclear Past
About once a month, the same group of two dozen Japanese government officials, company executives and professors file into a bland white and beige conference room at the nation’s economy, trade and …
Japan’s SBI plans Hong Kong pullout on concerns over security law
The chief executive of SBI Holdings, the financial conglomerate that owns Japan’s biggest online brokerage, said he plans to pull his company’s operations out of Hong Kong because “without freedom, …
After Japan’s 2011 Tsunami a City Is Rebuilt—Now It Needs People to Survive
The future remains precarious for Rikuzentakata, where more than 1,700 people died in the disaster, as many survivors have settled elsewhere and swaths of downtown lie unused.
The Bank of Japan Is Sitting on a Pile of Profit but Isn’t Sharing the Wealth
Making a $130 billion profit in the stock market isn’t as fun as it seems—at least if you’re the Bank of Japan.
Japan’s innovators seek their lost mojo
Japan’s finance ministry has decided to tackle one of the great unanswered questions of innovation and finance. Can $100bn buy a nation back its mojo? In an effort to reignite Japan’s flame, the …