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Its legendary $100bn Vision Fund, which has been behind major investments in Uber, WeWork and British chip designer Arm Holdings, says it expects to lose JPY 1.8 trillion ($16.7bn) in FY2019 [PDF].…
I know I haven’t been tempted to go outside much since then, what with all the dunking on it happening online. But with this welcome decrease in people outside, some changes are quickly taking p…
But from there the rate of infections were relatively slow compared to other nations and Japan had been slow in altering their behavior. The series of posters incorporate various objects that ar…
March in Japan marks the start of the much-awaited cherry blossom season. Normally, this would be the time to plan out that insta-worthy cherry blossom viewing party. For this mon…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son speaks during a press conference in TokyoSoftBank expects to lose $16.7bn (£13.3bn) on firms it has inve…
Japan data on the number of people in Susukino St Hokkaido from January to March 2020Yahoo!’s Japanese offshoot has signed a deal to share analysis of its users’ locations, to help the nation’s effor…
According to the Wall Street Journal, that likely means its investments are worth le ss now than when it launched with $100 billion in funding in 2017. Uber’s Chinese counterpart Didi Chuxing, w…
That category also includes Internet cafes, which are great, cheap places to spend the night if you’ve missed the last train, or need a budget hotel. They offer private rooms with free Internet,…
A reliance on paper filing systems in parts of Japan's business world is forcing employees to go into work to put their unique seal on documents. To do this they use tiny traditional stamps…
Nobuhiko Obayashi, one of Japan’s most prolific filmmakers who devoted his works to depicting war’s horrors and singing the eternal power of movies, has died. The official site for his latest fi…
