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Richer Asian countries helping poorer ones will shape the region’s geopolitics. China isn’t the only country giving out goodies in Asia. Japan and... (2023)
Investing in the neighborhood. Asia’s economies are coming closer together. That will benefit them, and the world. Links between the region’s count... (2023)
A new Era of Asian commerce. How the continent at the heart of globalization is reinventing itself. The continent’s future will involve less Weste... (2023)
The Japanese company aimed to complete the first moon landing by a private company, but its M1 lander joined numerous spacecraft that have crashed ... (2023)
Automation and expansion go hand in hand | Business (2023)
A hostile takeover should provide some clues | Business (2021)
Experts worry about East Asia and the Middle East (2021)
To stop it, the nuclear powers need to act (2021)
Can the coronavirus-induced digital revolution restore Son Masayoshi’s reputation for investing brilliance? (2020)
Son Masayoshi has shown that the future of technology lies as much in Asia as in Silicon Valley (2020)
The trading houses reflect a growing pro-shareholder culture (2020)
Get a taste of the unique island cooking that most travelers skip right over. Laurie Woolever tastes and cooks her way through the unique landscap... (2019)
At the end of World War II, Kokura, Japan, escaped nuclear destruction not once, but twice. Every August, the modern city’s residents mark the anni... (2019)
Black markets and American wheat imports popularized ramen. (2018)
The near-absence of public garbage bins in cities like Tokyo is both a security measure and a reflection of a cultural aversion to littering. "F... (2019)
Rising ad dollars from Japan has bolstered the company’s total revenue Now, five years after Sasamoto joined, Japan is Twitter's second-largest ... (2019)
Almost all tariffs on trade between the European Union and the world's third-biggest economy have been removed. European companies could save aroun... (2019)
Japan’s demographic crisis provides some lessons for where America might be headed. (2019)
The Japanese government is launching a program to reduce the number of abandoned homes across the country by offering them for sale for nearly nothing (2018)
Ahead of the 24th anniversary of Sony’s PlayStation game console — and the PlayStation Classic’s release — Polygon takes an in-depth look at the ca... (2018)
LAST Saturday at six in the morning the handbells rang and auctioneers launched with guttural chanting into the last auction of bluefin tuna at Tok... (2018)
THE story of Japan’s modernisation began 150 years ago this month, when a band of young samurai and their allies overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate a... (2018)
The story of how Kit Kats, once a British chocolate export, became a booming business from Hokkaido to Tokyo — and changed expectations about what ... (2018)
António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, today met survivors of the American A-bomb that (2018)
An estimated 25,000 people were sterilised under the national Eugenic Protection Law, enacted in (2018)
The nation’s famed mastery of rail travel has been aided by some subtle behavioral tricks. (2018)
"IN ORDER TO see one of the oldest living trees on earth in one of the oldest evergreen forests in the world, you must first fly two hours from Tok... (2018)
Japan’s Preferred Networks Inc. has only one publicly available product, a whimsical application that uses artificial intelligence to automate the ... (2018)
They are less so when they think about the future "KOJI TANAKA enjoys his work for a tech company in Tokyo. In his free time he goes for a worko... (2018)
A local government launches a novel bid this week to fight organised crime. (2018)
Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese a... (2023)
Why Tokyo Is Insanely Well Designed (2022)
Sign up for the Nebula/CuriosityStream bundle deal at http://CuriosityStream.com/WendoverWatch an exclusive behind the scenes video showing how we ... (2021)
Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID) A look at the Toyota “just in time” (JIT) supply chain system (2021)
Tokyo is the most successful metropolis in the history of the world with 39 million residents, 50% more people than any other urban area. It is the... (2019)
Japan’s second city has become the country's fastest growing tourist hotspot. Famed for its food, Osaka stands apart from other cities in Japan. A ... (2018)
Vox Published on Jun 1, 2017 The ritual of Japanese business cards. Follow Johnny for more photos and videos from his travels around the globe... (2018)
What vending machines can teach you about this country Subscribe to the Vox Borders newsletter for weekly updates: http://www.vox.com/borders-email... (2018)
Watch as the March 2011 Tsunami floods a city. The videographer is on the street as the tsunami makes landfall. I do not own this video. (2018)
TED Published on Apr 14, 2015 At this school in Tokyo, five-year-olds cause traffic jams and windows are for Santa to climb into. Meet: the wor... (2018)
National Geographic Published on Apr 23, 2014 The nutrino, one of the most elusive elements, takes a tremendous amount of effort to find. Abou... (2018)
A court has ruled that a social welfare organization that ran a hospital where the mix-up occurred must pay the man about $317,000 for causing him ... (2018)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. In the US, mascots are used to pump up crowds at sporting events, or for traumat... (2020)
*Los Angeles Times bestseller* “If hygge is the art of doing nothing, ikigai is the art of doing something—and doing it with supreme focus and joy.... (2021)