Renesas Electronics, a key supplier of automotive semiconductors, said its most advanced chip plant remained closed on Monday as it checked for damage from a quake that struck northeast Japan on …
Need an App? This Japanese Startup Has a Platform for That
There’s an app for that,” so the old iPhone slogan goes.But in a country like Japan that’s struggling to find enough engineers and programmers, locating someone who can create an app is easier said …
Japan powers out of coronavirus dip with 3% fourth-quarter growth
Economic output in Japan grew 3 per cent from the third to the fourth quarter of 2020 as the country recorded a strong comeback from Covid-19. The figure for growth in gross domestic product, …
When is Japan’s Q4 GDP and how could it affect USD/JPY?
Japan’s Finance Ministry is up for releasing the preliminary version of the fourth quarter (Q4) 2020 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures at 23:50 GMT on Sunday, early Monday morning in Asia.
When is Japan’s Q4 GDP and how could it affect USD/JPY?
Japan’s Finance Ministry is up for releasing the preliminary version of the fourth quarter (Q4) 2020 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures at 23:50 GMT on Sunday, early Monday morning in Asia.
There’s a bad smell to Japan’s corporate governance reform
But its source — a mix of ingrained gender inequality, invisible networks that support the incompetent, excessive deference to authority, opaque habits of governance and other stabilisers of the …
Japan’s Unizo under pressure to consider bankruptcy filing
A Japanese real estate developer that pulled off a $1.9bn employee buyout with US private equity firm Lone Star is under pressure from a leading creditor to consider filing for bankruptcy protection.
‘Comfort women’ statue missing in the Philippines, as Japan’s wartime legacy under focus
The monument to wartime sex slaves was dismantled by Rodrigo Duterte’s government to avoid antagonising Japan, and later ‘stolen’ from the sculptor.
Thousands march in Tokyo to protest Myanmar coup, biggest Japan demonstration so far
Thousands of mostly silent demonstrators paraded through central Tokyo on Sunday in protest against the coup in Myanmar, many carrying photos of detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi in what organisers …
Powerful Japan earthquake sets off landslide, minor injuries
Residents in northeastern Japan on Sunday cleaned up clutter and debris in stores and homes after a strong earthquake set off a landslide on a highway, damaged buildings and parts of bullet train …