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Well, that didn’t last long. We knew it would be hard to pin down the policies of newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. In his...
When Shigeru Ishiba became the 65th Japanese prime minister on Tuesday, it represents a remarkable break with the recent past. All of the candidates...
Japan’s ruling party made its choice — and it was a stunning upset. In an unusually hotly contested election, the Liberal Democratic Party, which...
Japan’s ruling party wanted someone different. It might get more than it bargained for. While nine lawmakers are contesting the race to become the...
How much would you pay to play the latest video games? How about half your monthly take-home pay? That’s what the average Japanese consumer in their...
The race for Japan’s next leader might lack the dire rhetoric seen in the U.S. election — warnings that choosing the wrong candidate will result...
Osaka has long suffered from second-city syndrome. In the shadow of Japan’s capital, where wealth and power are centralized, Osaka has wilted. Tokyo...
Just weeks from the first report of Alimentation Couche-Tard’s bid to acquire Japan’s Seven & I Holdings, the battle lines for public opinion are...
Cultural authenticity hasn’t always been crucial to video games. Few Italians complain about Super Mario’s stereotypical accent or Indians about...
In the end, Fumio Kishida could not escape the pull of gravity. Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party will elect its new leader late next month,...
To live in Japan is to live with the risk of a devastating earthquake at any time. Usually, however, people tend to view that threat in the abstract....
The Sahm Rule might be a good indicator of a recession. But the timing of when the Bank of Japan unnecessarily hikes interest rates might be even...
An ancient Zen Buddhist koan asks, if the Bank of Japan hikes interest rates but nobody is able to read the statement that says so, has monetary...
"Sunny," the new Apple TV show, invites us to think about what even the most innocuous robots can be. Friends? A crime-solving partner? Or, perhaps,...
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were a "suicide mission,” warned one of Japan’s richest men. "Cursed,” said a former prime minister. Even contemplating...
At just ¥1,000 ($6.30) for 1.5 liters, the famed magnum of wine at Saizeriya, a Japan-based chain of Italian restaurants, is already a bargain. But...
It’s a narrative that might have sprung straight from the script of a Studio Ghibli movie or, perhaps, a Joni Mitchell song. Big corporations and...
Step out of the train station at Himeji, a midsized Japanese city in Hyogo Prefecture about 80 kilometers from Osaka, and one thing grabs the eye....
Considering the yen’s value these days, visitors to Japan are probably spending their cash so quickly that they are not stopping to examine it too...
He is the fastest man in the United States — and soon, perhaps, the world. Yet American sprinter Noah Lyles made waves this week for dropping...
For all the talk of Japan’s low position in gender equality rankings, the country’s political and economic heart looks certain to have a woman in...
When it comes to North Korea, Western interest tends to wax and wane: from the Barack Obama-era approach of tactical patience to the Donald Trump...
Pop quiz: Which executive took home the biggest pay packet in Japan last year? Perhaps Akio Toyoda of Toyota Motor, or his successor, Koji Sato, who...
The Tokyo government’s plan to launch its own dating app has attracted mockery online and praise from Elon Musk (which these days often only...
At the time when Japan’s auto industry is at a critical juncture, it’s taking an off-road the nation doesn’t have time for. The country’s...
A row is brewing for control of Japan’s everything app. Elon Musk might talk about building an all-encompassing app. Japan already has one. Having...
I’m looking for a "Mrs. Watanabe." Not just any Mrs. Watanabe — the Mrs. Watanabe, the archetypal financial journalist’s shorthand we’ve all...
Finally, Nintendo has acknowledged the obvious: It is time to switch things up. The Kyoto firm has been typically coy about what would come after the...
The ukiyo-e artist Hokusai was famed for his "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," woodblock prints deeply symbolic of Japan. But one famous view of the...
The United States ambassador to Tokyo is known for not mincing his words. What has surprised, however, is his target: folks back home. "I have a...
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s first remarks to the joint session of the U.S. Congress were perhaps also his most heartfelt. "I never get such nice...
South Korea’s parliamentary elections are not a referendum on the foreign policy of President Yoon Suk-yeol. Indeed, foreign policy barely ranks on...
(Mild spoilers for Netflix’s "3-Body Problem" follow.) Like many readers of Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body" series of novels, I was a bit taken aback by...
With its progressive zoning rules and "build, baby, build” attitude, Japan does not tend to have many "not in my backyard" (NIMBY) types. But the...
The Shohei Ohtani gambling scandal continues to get weirder. His news conference last week raised more questions than it answered, coming after the...
There’s still much we don’t know about the betting scandal that has enveloped Shohei Ohtani, baseball’s golden boy and possibly the greatest to...
Media reports that rival Japanese automakers Nissan Motor and Honda Motor are potentially entering into a partnership feel so unlikely it’s as if...
When can you have too much of a good thing? That’s the question being asked by Japan’s alcohol industry, where two of the country’s four major...
It should have been a victorious few weeks for Sony Group’s PlayStation 5. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, arguably the console’s first must-have...
In 1942, at the tender age of 11, Warren Buffett purchased the first of the many shares he would accumulate throughout his career. "What I bought was...
One of the most famous tales ever set in Japan is back. Walt Disney is spending millions on a glossy new adaptation of the James Clavell saga...
History might not repeat itself, but it rhymes. The last time Japanese stocks hit an all-time high, the yen was floating around 145 to 150 to the...
Japan has been trying to create a "virtuous cycle” of price and wage increases for over a decade. But there are perhaps only a few places where it...
There was a brief moment around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday where, as Taylor Swift played to 55,000 screaming fans in the first performance of her...
For a man who once said that the only thing he liked about Japan was that the people bow instead of shaking hands, it should come as little surprise...
The Ukrainian-born winner of a Miss Japan contest has reawakened a long-simmering question on the archipelago: What does it mean to be Japanese?...
On the surface, the U.S.-Japan security alliance might seem rosy: ever-closer defense ties, deeper cooperation and a shared vision for the...
Thirty-eight thousand nine hundred fifteen point eight-seven. It’s a number seared into the mind of any long-term Japan stock-watcher: The Nikkei...
Compared to the chaos that has engulfed Japan in the opening days of 2024, the final days of last year seem like a halcyon age. Before an earthquake...
Many in Japan were surprised to learn of the sudden surge of vitriol in the United Kingdom toward one of Tokyo’s corporate icons. Seemingly...
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