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    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      Technology sector
      Video games become part of the furniture in Japan as suppliers read the room

      Tokyo Game Show features soft furnishings and whole apartments designed to improve gaming experience

      Attendees walk past a sign for the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, Japan on September 21 2023
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Bank of Japan
      Yen tumbles after Bank of Japan maintains ultra-low interest rates

      August data shows consumer price growth exceeded 2% target for 17th straight month

      Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      LexAsia-Pacific companies
      Kokusai Electric: Japanese listing arrives in time for chip boom   Premium content

      Debuts in the local market have been the best performers in the region this year

      Kokusai Electric signage
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      SoftBank Group Corp
      SoftBank finance chief criticises S&P for lack of credit upgrade after Arm deal

      Analysts had expected an upgrade after tech group raised $5bn in listing

      SoftBank finance chief Yoshimitsu Goto
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Everyone loves a bit of corporate ‘malfeasatainment’

      Could the downfall of a second-hand car dealer prove restorative for Japan’s psyche?

      Maria Hergueta illustration of oversized fingers pointing at a mechanic who is standing beside a car
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Demographics and population
      Great expectations

      The secret to avoiding Japanification, apparently

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      LexBYD Co Ltd
      BYD: China’s cheap EVs charge up Japanese market Premium content

      Release of Dolphin model will test loyalty to domestic carmakers

      The BYD Dolphin at a launch event. The car is bathed in pink/purple light
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Sexual misconduct allegations
      Japanese boy band abuse scandal rocks entertainment industry

      Some of country’s largest businesses and media groups try to distance themselves from troubled talent agency

      Noriyuki Higashiyama, left, and Julie Fujishima
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      SoftBank Group Corp
      SoftBank leads Mapbox fundraising as it pushes into AI

      Japanese group’s decision to back US location-mapping company comes in wake of Arm listing

      The Mapbox logo on a screen
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      LexTechnology sector
      SoftBank/OpenAI: next bet on AI unlikely to be more successful than the last Premium content

      Chief’s key portfolio returns have been heavily reliant on consumer internet companies, not artificial intelligence

      SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      Nippon Paint targets China expansion despite property market slowdown

      Co-president predicts company can make ‘good money’ even as developers wrestle with turmoil

      A worker moves pallets of paint at a Nippon Paint plant in China
    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      SoftBank Group Corp
      SoftBank seeks OpenAI tie-up as Son plans deal spree after Arm IPO

      Japanese conglomerate is looking to invest tens of billions of dollars in AI after Arm’s blockbuster listing

    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      FT SeriesMen’s fashion special AW23
      The cult cool of Japanese lifestyle magazines

      Growing interest in Popeye, Casa Brutus, Go Out et al is bordering on obsessive

      Back issues from the author’s collection of Japanese magazines
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Uranium
      Uranium prices hit 12-year high as governments warm to nuclear power

      Cost of ‘yellowcake’ jumps to levels not seen since before 2011 Fukushima disaster

      Uranium concentrate, commonly known as U3O8 or yellowcake
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Sovereign debt
      Can we all be Japan?

      Goldman Sachs on the economic topic du jour

    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Japanese politics & policy
      Japan’s PM Kishida appoints more women to cabinet posts

      Leader seeks to revive popularity as he nears end of term as head of ruling Liberal Democratic party

      Yoko Kamikawa arriving at the prime minister’s office
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Mizuho Financial Group Inc
      Mizuho seeks to break curse over foreign forays on Wall Street

      Japanese lender targets US investment banking top 10 after acquisition of boutique firm Greenhill

      Traders work on the Mizuho Americas trading floor
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      South Korean business & finance
      South Korea launches samurai bond in Japan as bilateral relations improve

      Bank of Japan’s dovish monetary policy has made yen-denominated debt issuance attractive

      From left, US president Joe Biden, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      News in-depthBAE Systems PLC
      An ambitious timetable to deliver the world’s newest fighter jet

      UK, Italian and Japanese partnership aims to have a new generation of supersonic aircraft flying by 2035

      Montage of fighter jet and graphic of new jet
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      The Big Read
      Japan’s ispace: the unruly start-up that shot for the Moon and missed

      The FT delves into the events that led to the crash of the Hakuto-R lander in April and uncovers a corporate culture described by some as ‘toxic’

      A rendering of the Hakuto-R lander, with the mission logo on the left and Takeshi Hakamada on the right
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Investors ponder the ‘Japanification’ of China

      Fund managers face rising pressure to make a call on the geopolitical factors affecting China’s investability

      Maria Hergueta illustration of huge hands putting a coin into a moneybox shaped as the Earth
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Global InsightChristian Davies
      Japan and South Korea’s rapprochement is shakier than it looks

      Tokyo may need to show genuine compassion over forced-labour issue to establish partnership with Seoul that lasts

      Yoon Suk Yeol, left, Joe Biden, centre, Fumio Kishida
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Foreign exchange
      China and Japan push back against dollar strength

      People’s Bank of China sets renminbi trading band higher than expected while Tokyo warns against yen’s decline

      A hand holding $100 bills
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Equities
      ‘A higher likelihood of a crisis’

      Gandalf stands by his forecasts

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      IPOs
      KKR to list chip equipment maker as Tokyo experiences IPO revival

      Private equity group aims to float Hitachi Kokusai Electric at valuation that would make it Japan’s biggest initial public offering since 2018

      A visitor looks at an electronic stock board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange
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