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                • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
                  LexCapcom Co Ltd
                  Japan gaming: Capcom brings street fighting spirit to mobile games Premium content

                  Share price increase reflects expectations of sales boost from mobile offerings

                  An  Indian professional e-sports athlete, plays ‘Street Fighter V’ at his residence in Gurgaon
                • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
                  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
                  How TSMC’s chip plant is shaking up Japan

                  Semiconductor giant’s arrival in a small town highlights broader challenges for Asia’s most advanced economy

                  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s factory under construction in Kikuyo, Japan
                • Monday, 25 September, 2023
                  World
                  And the winner is . . . 

                  Drumroll

                • 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
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