The Japan Times

Tokyo's entrepreneurs have built a community of peers to provide guidance and support wherever possible: "If all goes well, the tide will lift all boats (building) a wave of new companies like Toyota, Sony and Nintendo."

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Japan's consumer watchdog has raised the alarm on a surge in automated telephone scams from overseas numbers claiming to be telecommunications company NTT demanding “unpaid fees.”

Tokyo police have arrested a 29-year-old Chinese man for alleged vandalism at the high-profile Yasukuni Shrine in the capital earlier this year, after an incident involving graffiti and urination was recorded as a video and shared on social media.

A growing number of business leaders in Japan are pledging to unwind their vast network of cross-held shares to satisfy the nation’s top regulator and activist shareholders, but Nobuhiro Doi, president of Kyoto Financial Group, isn't one of them.

A Maritime Self-Defense Force panel said that insufficient coordination by commanders and improper lookout by crew might have played a role in an April collision of two helicopters that left eight crew members dead.

The world’s top hedge funds have begun to focus on the Bank of Japan’s reversal of its ultraloose monetary policy, shaking up the once sleepy backwater of global finance by hiring a steady flow of traders with knowledge of Japan’s sovereign debt.

Eight months after Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to bring 50,000 U.S. students to China to stabilize ties, Beijing has made its largest outreach yet — but for some a "curated" atmosphere leaves questions over what's not on show.

The education ministry is looking to make its national achievement test for junior high school and elementary school students fully online from fiscal 2027, and will make a firm decision as early as autumn.

Representatives from a record 115 countries plus the European Union are slated to attend this year's peace memorial ceremony in the city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6.