The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), with headquarters in Beijing, held its second annual general meeting on June 17. Speaking at a press conference...
Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko,54, is known as the “key person” of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration. He is considered as...
These are the brand-new "Miyagi salmons" from north-east of Japan Salmon has become a favorite at conveyor belt sushi restaurants in Japan. The advanced...
Japan may be facing a population decline, and observers say this could limit its inherent potential for economic growth, but Akira Kiyota can convince...
In the aftermath of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, the global nuclear energy sector has had the busiest year in almost three decades. Sixty reactors...
The second satellite of the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS)—the Japanese version of the Global Positioning System (GPS)—is scheduled for launch on June 1, and it...
At Utsuomiya University in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan’s leading producer of strawberries, a harvesting robot is being developed to pick and package strawberries without human hands...
Tokyo Disneyland (TDL), located at Maihama in Urayasu City, Chiba Prefecture, has launched its largest scale development since it opened in 1983. In three years, a...
Last year alone, more than 1.4 billion smartphones were shipped around the world. Their performance improves constantly as they become more widely used. But not...
Due to a shortage of workers at home and the need to secure personnel for expansion projects overseas, Japanese corporations are entering into increasingly fierce competition...
Since the election of Donald Trump on November 8, 2016, stock markets in the United States have added over $2 trillion of market capitalization and are...
In a stunning development last week, Toshiba was forced to abandon an earnings disclosure due to difficulties in accounting for a U.S. acquisition made in 2015...