Food & Beverage
Sushi pranks push restaurants to fight back with AI
Top conveyor belt maker partners with security company on spotting troublemakers
Japan
Comment
Kuroda's surprise-filled tenure at BOJ comes to quiet close
Ueda's challenge: fixing communication breakdown between bank and markets
Food & Beverage
Japan's wine country takes the road to the deep north
Climate change opens up new regional possibilities for vineyards
Your Week in Asia
Yoon in Tokyo, Baidu launches AI chatbot, Japan eases mask rules
Your weekly lineup of Asia's biggest business and political events
Travel & Leisure
Japan offers trove of secondhand treasures to visitors
Overseas tourists flock to country for records, cameras, gaming software
Supply Chain
With China in mind, G-7 to call for groupwide supply chains
Economic security to be major topic at Hiroshima summit in May
Technology
SoftBank, other Japanese firms move to limit ChatGPT use
Interactive AI promises greater efficiency, but risks sensitive data leaks
Technology
Edible drones open up new ways to save lives
Food-based robots eyed as help in rescues and beyond
International relations
Iran-Saudi deal is good 1st step: ex-Egyptian foreign minister
Chinese mediation role an interesting new development, Fahmy says
Arts
Preserving Japanese houses from colonial era in Taipei's Showacho
Japanese-style wooden houses embody Taiwan's checkered history
Datawatch
Japan sees pool of Nobel hopefuls drain
Nation's scholars lag Chinese and other rivals in high-tech academic citations
Natural disasters
Tokyo risks over 6,000 'untreated deaths' in major earthquake
Medical resources would stretch past breaking point if large quake hit capital
Fukushima Anniversary
Japan's great quake: 12 years later, 30,000 still unable to go home
Death toll stands at 15,900, while portions of Fukushima remain uninhabited
Fukushima Anniversary
Fukushima cleanup costs swell with no end in sight
Japan has spent $7bn annually since 2011 disaster with more work on horizon
Energy
Japan's Daiwa Securities buys into U.K. offshore wind farm
Deal marks brokerage's first foray into field and biggest investment in renewables
Japan-South Korea rift
Wartime labor proposal opposed by 59% of South Koreans: poll
Young, Yoon-skeptical voters largely reject initiative to mend fences with Japan
Coronavirus
COVID patients in Japan to foot more costs after downgrade
Testing, vaccine requirements for international arrivals to end on May 8
Automobiles
Mitsubishi Motors to invest $12bn in green cars by 2030
Japanese automaker aims to 'double' revenue from Southeast Asia
Companies
South Korean e-commerce Coupang pulls out of Japan
Quick delivery of food and daily essentials will terminate this month
Bank of Japan
BOJ's Kuroda calls aggressive easing a 'success,' urges continuation
Board decides to keep ultra-loose policy after Ueda approved as next gov.
