Climate Change
Japan's JGC and Cosmo to begin jet biofuel production in 2025
Companies to use waste food oil collected from restaurants and factories
Japan
Finance
Nomura reports 57% profit drop following Archegos debacle
Despite weaker results, analysts welcome shift to less volatile business
Trade
Japan to fight state-subsidized imports, learning from US and EU
Tokyo seeks intel-sharing framework, targeting metals and chemicals
Obituaries
Japanese Nobel laureate Toshihide Masukawa dies at 81
Predicted the existence of new quarks to explain the concept of broken symmetry
International relations
Abe: Taiwan must never repeat Hong Kong experience
US, Japan lawmakers, along with Taipei colleagues, discuss Chinese expansionism
Education
Japan bets on $90bn fund as universities lose ground to West
Lackluster global rankings push government to help institutions regain edge
SoftBank
SoftBank confronts renewed China risk as Didi backfires
Beijing's crackdown on US-listed tech stocks spells trouble in vital market
Coronavirus
Japan to expand COVID state of emergency as cases hit new record
Tokyo's neighboring areas and Osaka to be added to scope of ban on pub drinking
Transportation
Ever Given, the ship that blocked Suez, reaches Rotterdam
Container vessel will next head to UK
Coronavirus
Japan's daily COVID cases top 10,000 for 1st time amid Olympics
Tokyo reports single-day infection record for 3rd straight day
Semiconductors
Renesas CEO warns of tight chip supply through mid-2022
Japanese chipmaker reports 115% profit jump in first half
Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Tweets in favor of Tokyo Olympics come to outnumber negative ones
Japanese public opinion has shifted since opening ceremony of Games
Electronics
India builds global AC hub with subsidies luring Daikin and others
Expanding local production base, New Delhi sets sights on exports
Comment
Base or beyond? Paths of US Republicans and Japan's LDP part
Unlike GOP, ruling Liberal Democratic Party chooses broad appeal over loyalty
Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Olympics from July 23-28: Japan swimmer Ohashi bags 2 early golds
Chinese weightlifter Shi Zhiyong dominates; Philippines wins first gold ever
Climate Change
Mitsubishi joins Aussie carbon market in reforestation effort
Japan trading house seeks to gain know-how via stake in local player
Coronavirus
Tokyo's severe cases of COVID shift to those in their 40s and 50s
Authorities prepare to use AstraZeneca vaccine to accelerate inoculation push
Semiconductors
Apple's iPhone warning underscores risk of chip shortage into 2022
Overlapping orders make actual demand for semiconductors hard to read
Technology
No more cookies: Japan sours on online tracking ads
Sapporo slashes budget while Panasonic explores alternative digital marketing
