“Vietnam currently tops the list of potential investment destinations … Therefore, Japanese businesses expected the government to shorten and speed up administrative procedures to improve business …
Japan’s icy climate for hostile takeovers starts to thaw
When the Tokyo market was focused on a dramatic tussle for the hotel and property group Unizo in mid-2019, Stephen Schwarzman placed calls to some of Japan’s most powerful and well-connected business …
Why does Japan insist on holding the Olympics?
Holding 2020 Olympics next July — as Japan appears determined to do — is crazy. Kudos to Michael Phelps for stating the obvious: “The fact that you’re going to put ten thousand plus athletes, plus all …
Japan PM Suga Shies Away From Calling State of Emergency as Coronavirus Cases Rise
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga reiterated there was no need for Japan to enter a national state of emergency, even as health groups declared their own state of emergency for the medical system as …
Giant squid washes ashore on the coast of Japan
A rare giant squid measuring 10 feet in length was found washed ashore, largely intact, on the western coast of Japan, according to a local press report.
China can lead, and Japan and South Korea can follow, in cutting coal finance in Southeast Asia
Every line of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s new climate commitments will be analysed and interpreted to the bone. But the most salient part of the Climate Ambition Summit, held on December 12, was …
Kidnapped Schoolboys Returned Safely | Japan’s 40-Hour Traffic Jam
A group of 344 students who were kidnapped in an attack claimed by Boko Haram last week have been returned to Nigeria’s government. It’s still not clear if all the boys taken in last Friday’s raid on …
Indonesia launches Japanese-funded port to boost auto exports
Funded by a Japanese official development assistance loan amounting to $968.5 million for the first phase, the port is expected to facilitate the country’s exports.
Japan had ordered enough vaccines for the whole country. Now it has to overcome a history of vaccine mistrust.
A deep skepticism about vaccine safety runs through Japan, fed by memories of forced vaccinations by U.S. forces after World War II.
Taiwan set for live-fire drill in ‘potential flashpoint’ Pratas Islands
Marines and coastguard to take part in drills, months after Japanese media reported mainland military planned an exercise simulating invasion of the islets.