Nintendo Co. said its highly anticipated next game in the Zelda franchise, a sequel to Breath of the Wild, will be out in 2022. The company didn’t share a final title or many other details, although a brief trailer showcasing the game’s hero, Link, using abilities that weren’t in the first game. Series producer…
Japan unilaterally broke a tentative agreement to hold brief talks between Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae In on the fringes of the Group of Seven summit in Britain, Yonhap News Agency reported Monday, while Japan dismissed the report as not factual. Citing a South Korean Foreign Ministry official, the…
Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s remains was one of World War II’s biggest mysteries in the nation he once led. Now, a Japanese university professor has revealed declassified U.S. military documents that appear to hold the answer. The documents show the cremated ashes of Tojo, one of the…
Toyota aims for carbon-neutral plants by 2035 Toyota Motor has set a new target date to achieve carbon neutrality at its plants. The company has moved up its plans from 2050 to the year 2035. The Japanese automaker said on Friday that it is aiming for net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions for its global production line….
Drone expo kicks off in Japan Companies are showing off the latest drone technology for a trade show near Tokyo. Over 100 firms from Japan and elsewhere are taking part. One of the drones comes with an underwater craft. The machine can fly to a location over water and drop the device, which sends…
Japan steps up efforts to attract foreign funds Japanese financial authorities have opened an office in central Tokyo with an English-speaking team to help foreign funds and others start a business in the country. The Financial Market Entry Office is located in Kabutocho, Japan’s financial center and home to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The office…
From humble beginnings, Jeff Sine built a career as an unorthodox banker who offered unvarnished advice and tamed unruly transactions for business moguls like Masayoshi Son and Rupert Murdoch. He defied the odds and built merchant bank The Raine Group into an investing empire in its own right. December 6, 2016, would prove a…
When the English archeologist William Gowland saw the major mountain chain in the middle of Honshu he thought they resembled the European Alps so he named them accordingly. Later, English missionary Reverend Walter Weston agreed with Gowland and popularized the name the Japanese Alps. Today, Japan’s most majestic mountain range is divided into the Northern…
As Japan nears the planned end of its third state of emergency, infectious disease experts warn that the fourth declaration in Tokyo could be right around the corner. A team of scientists led by Hiroshi Nishiura, a member of the health ministry’s expert panel on the coronavirus, projected that the fourth state of emergency in…
Takashi Mochizuki | Bloomberg The Japanese government will start investigating how Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google deal with Japanese smartphone makers, which could lead to tightening antitrust regulations, the Nikkei newspaper reported Sunday, without saying where it got the information. A government panel, which consists of officials, bureaucrats, and external experts, will kick…
