Japan’s demographic crisis is deepening faster than expected, with the number of births this year on track to fall below even the government’s most pessimistic projections. According to analysis reported by the
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured a Tokyo Electron semiconductor factory in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture on Saturday, signaling a push for closer technology and investment collaboration between the two nations, Bloomberg reports.
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Hamamatsu, a city long regarded as one of Japan’s key industrial powerhouses, is turning to immigration in an effort to counteract a shrinking population and an exodus of young workers to Tokyo.
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policy is designed to bring manufacturing jobs back to American soil, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an exclusive interview with Nikkei. Speaking 200 days into the
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“If you had been here on that day and at that hour, if you had seen the hell that opened up on Earth before our eyes, if you had even a glimpse
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Ayano Hirashima was just eight years old when she became a living witness to one of the darkest turning points in human history—not once, but twice. On the morning of August 6,
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A harrowing and long-suppressed chapter of Japan’s wartime past is finally coming to light, as survivors and campaigners in the village of Kurokawa shed silence over the fate of 15 young Japanese
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A long-overlooked act of wartime humanity has finally received the recognition it deserves. Eighty years after American and Japanese soldiers laid down their arms on a remote Okinawan beach, descendants, locals, and
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The $33 billion take-private transaction involving Toyota Industries, a key supplier to Toyota Motor, has come under sharp criticism from a leading corporate governance group, raising fresh concerns over Japan’s efforts to
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An explosion rocked a storage facility at the US Kadena Air Base in Okinawa on Monday, injuring at least four individuals, according to Japanese media and defense officials. The blast occurred around
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China’s BYD, the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, is preparing to make a bold move into one of the most distinct corners of Japan’s car industry — the $18 billion kei
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