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Hello, little kitty — Japan’s $20 billion cat boom

Hello, little kitty — Japan’s $20 billion cat boom

Much of Asia was celebrating the Year of the Horse this month. In Japan, which does not mark Lunar New Year, attention turns to a different animal....

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Give everyone in Japan a subscription to Claude

20.02.2026 20

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Sanae Takaichi is not who you think she is

17.02.2026 50

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Sanae Takaichi is not who you think she is

16.02.2026 40

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Sony switches off the TV and that’s just fine

02.02.2026 70

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'Mrs. Watanabe', Japan's FX investing housewife, gets an anime update

29.01.2026 50

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Takaichi’s bad tax plan isn’t worth this freak-out

22.01.2026 100

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Japan is right to rethink its immigration approach

16.01.2026 80

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Can Japan’s popular new leader beat the heat with a snap election?

15.01.2026 60

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Japan can keep calm and carry on decoupling from China

14.01.2026 90

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Takaichi, Mario, baseball and the Year of the Fire Horse

29.12.2025 100

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What’s left of Japan’s pacifism meets reality

17.12.2025 90

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The console wars end not with a bang, but a whimper

25.11.2025 90

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A beloved Tokyo penguin’s end presages Suica’s shift to payments giant

16.11.2025 100

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Along with Japan’s urban bears comes fur and loathing

11.11.2025 60

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Tokyo’s coolest neighborhood? There isn’t one.

03.11.2025 60

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With Trump, flattery will get Takaichi everything

29.10.2025 70

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Japan’s new 'Iron Lady' can play 'heavy metal' politics

22.10.2025 60

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The 'Takaichi trade' isn’t Abenomics 2.0, and that’s OK

10.10.2025 60

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Will Sanae Takaichi be Japan’s Thatcher — or its Truss?

09.10.2025 50

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From radical to Rihanna: Myths about the new LDP leader

09.10.2025 50

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From radical to Rihanna: Myths about the new LDP leader

07.10.2025 60

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Will Sanae Takaichi be Japan’s Thatcher — or its Truss?

05.10.2025 80

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Is Japan finally back? That’s the wrong question.

01.10.2025 80

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'For relaxing times...' don’t be a CEO like Suntory’s Niinami

30.09.2025 50

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An identity crisis is haunting Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party

24.09.2025 50

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Anime’s ‘Demon Slayer’ hit is a watershed for Japan

19.09.2025 60

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Japan needs an immigration debate, not social media myths

12.09.2025 70

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Japan deserves far better leadership than this

09.09.2025 60

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McDonald’s 'Pokemon' frenzy shows the collecting boom’s dark side

29.08.2025 40

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Hollywood has lost the plot on telling stories

04.08.2025 70

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Who buys the F-150s, and more Japan deal mysteries

29.07.2025 30

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‘Mr. Japan’ bends the knee — and falls on his sword

24.07.2025 60

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Ishiba loses his ‘mandate from heaven’

22.07.2025 70

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The bid for Japan’s 7-Eleven was doomed from the start

20.07.2025 70

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A trade deal fumble could be Ishiba’s last mistake

18.07.2025 60

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Japan’s right-wing fringe is no MAGA or reform movement

15.07.2025 40

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Tokyo is missing 'Blade Runner' where it needs it most

11.07.2025 70

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Donald Trump’s ‘copy-and-paste’ tariffs will no doubt rile ‘Mr. Japan’

08.07.2025 40

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A prophesied disaster (likely) won’t strike Japan this weekend

02.07.2025 30

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Is the shine coming off the U.S.-Japan ‘Golden Age’?

01.07.2025 30

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The 'internet' hated Switch 2 — consumers bought it anyway

25.06.2025 60

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Has Japan's corporate revolution worked too well?

20.06.2025 70

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The national sport of Japan wrestles with a generational change

17.06.2025 50

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Cultural anxiety and Japan's immigration pains

12.06.2025 60

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How ‘vintage’ rice is shaking up Japanese politics

10.06.2025 60

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For Toyota, more Akio Toyoda would be a good thing

04.06.2025 30

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Stop the steel! Japan’s giving too much away in this deal.

30.05.2025 30

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Ishiba's Greece debt comparison risks deeper crisis

22.05.2025 30

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Don’t reopen the ‘demon's gate’ debate in Japan

21.05.2025 30

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