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Biden's Nippon Steel move: A troubling snub of a key ally

Biden's Nippon Steel move: A troubling snub of a key ally

The most telling moment in the Biden Administration’s decision to block Nippon Steel’s attempted takeover of U.S. Steel was unintentional. In...

07.01.2025 30

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Anime, M&A and the expo: What to watch for in Japan’s 2025

Anime, M&A and the expo: What to watch for in Japan’s 2025

On Jan. 1, 2024, typically the quietest day of the year in Japan, a powerful earthquake struck off Ishikawa, triggering a tsunami and ultimately...

02.01.2025 2

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Japan’s 2024 word of the year has no rizz

Japan’s 2024 word of the year has no rizz

It’s the language that gave us the world’s first novel, birthed commonplace words from tycoon to emoji and produced three winners of the Nobel...

31.12.2024 10

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Chip cities rise in Japan’s fields of dreams

Rice paddies that lay fallow for decades in some of Japan’s most far-flung regions are now its hottest properties. As prices surge, these areas...

22.12.2024 20

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A Honda-Nissan merger is a slow-moving savior

It finally might be happening: A quarter century after Nissan’s bailout by Renault, six years after the shock arrest of savior-turned-fugitive...

19.12.2024 3

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Yoon's impeachment widens East Asia fault lines

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached at the second time of asking, was always more popular abroad than at home. Just over a year ago, he...

17.12.2024 1

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Nintendo’s latest device, the Alarmo, is a $100 wake-up call

It’s 7 a.m., the is sun poking through the curtains and blearily I am awakened — not by birdsong, but by the barking of a Chain Chomp, a...

24.11.2024 5

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Like in Elden Ring, Sony must learn from its mistakes

In Elden Ring, the biggest gaming hit from Japanese publisher and Sony Group acquisition target Kadokawa, players die over and over again — with...

22.11.2024 4

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Japan's newfound love of M&A makes for strange bedfellows

16.11.2024 2

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‘The Simpsons’ has become a parody of itself. That’s a good thing.

11.11.2024 3

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A disastrous poll puts Japan politics on shaky path

30.10.2024 4

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Ishiba and the LDP race to stem the electoral bleeding

24.10.2024 5

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What baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s success says about Japan

As Japan prepared to face the U.S. in last year’s World Baseball Classic final, Shohei Ohtani famously warned his teammates to stop revering...

11.10.2024 2

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Netflix’s ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ reveals some surprising truths

Netflix’s "Tokyo Swindlers" is a real-life story about high-stakes falsehoods that should be on your to-watch list. But its success also reveals...

09.10.2024 3

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Don’t take Japan's new leader literally. But should you take him seriously?

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...

04.10.2024 2

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Japan’s new leader has barely the concept of a plan

When Shigeru Ishiba became the 65th Japanese prime minister on Tuesday, it represents a remarkable break with the recent past. All of the...

01.10.2024 2

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Shigeru Ishiba made his career as an Anti-Abe

Japan’s ruling party made its choice — and it was a stunning upset. In an unusually hotly contested election, the Liberal Democratic Party, which...

29.09.2024 2

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PS5 Pro price is a sticker shock for the country that made the PlayStation

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...

18.09.2024 1

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Black myth, Black samurai and gaming nationalism

Cultural authenticity hasn’t always been crucial to video games. Few Italians complain about Super Mario’s stereotypical accent or Indians about...

27.08.2024 3

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Kishida’s resignation opens the door to a chaotic era

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,...

15.08.2024 2

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Japan is living in the shadow of the megaquake

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...

11.08.2024 20

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Tokyo market rout — oops, the BOJ did it again

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...

06.08.2024 3

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Ueda’s big day was lost in a communication black hole

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...

01.08.2024 9

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Japan isn't the 'robotopia' Apple TV's 'Sunny' portrays

"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,...

25.07.2024 1

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It’s time Japan's shareholders buy their own wine

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....

18.07.2024 1

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