Japan's renowned manga culture is facing a crisis. The spread of smartphones and tablet computers allows people to read e-comics anywhere at any time. According to the Research Institute for Publications, annual sales of digital comics last year grew 17.2 percent from the previous year ...
New Toshiba Corp. Chairman and CEO Nobuaki Kurumatani emphasized Tuesday that the company does not intend to change plans to sell its lucrative memory chip unit even now that it has staved off financial woes. "I've experienced a lot of M&As, and it's common sense ...
Sachin N. Shah’s love for Japan began with a Toyota Tercel, his first car after he moved from India to an American-Italian neighborhood in the United States in the 1970s.
In 2017 a record 28.7 million foreigners visited Japan, up 19.3 percent from the previous year, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. More foreign travelers are expected to visit Japan this spring to enjoy cherry blossoms in full bloom across the nation. Yet trying to ...
The jokey twist on an internationally accepted collision test aimed at protecting pedestrians rather than trade leaves Tokyo more puzzled than amused.
Seven years have passed since the core meltdowns occurred in March 2011 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which shocked the world and fractured the local community. During a media tour last month, a hazard map of the crippled nuclear plant was shown ...
As more companies turn to artificial intelligence to discover new talent, a recent survey has shown that a majority of job-seeking university students don't want their abilities judged by the technology. About 67.5 percent of 1,258 university and graduate students slated to graduate in March ...
The move comes as the firm seeks to take responsibility for the brouhaha that dented the nation’s once vaunted reputation for excellence.
The consortium of 11 companies plans to build 80 hydrogen stations nationwide as the government’s initiative to create a hydrogen-based economy revs up.
The company is still investigating whether other information leaked, and so far there have been no reports of suspicious emails sent to the stolen addresses.
