Matt Alt is a Tokyo-based writer who has spent two decades chronicling Japan’s relationship with craft and commerce. He is...
Japan
New census data over the past week showed Japan’s population shrank more quickly than in the prior tally. Also last...
Japan went from a rice shortage to a rice surplus in two years, due to drought, tourism and the U.S.
In 2023, extreme heat and drought damaged Japan’s rice crop, and a year later, that damage turned into a national...
CADDi, a startup that sells AI software to help manufacturers organize and use their engineering and production data, has raised...
Anyone who has renovated a house knows the trick contractors use on estimates. The plumbing and electrical get itemized down...
The Iran war exposed just how much the world relied on a narrow 20-mile-wide waterway. Soon after the U.S. launched...
Washington and Tokyo’s unprecedented step to bolster the yen already appears to be unraveling. On July 30, Japan’s finance ministry...
Last week’s attempt to boost the sagging yen wasn’t the first time the U.S. and Japan took such joint action,...
Last week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent joined with Japan’s Ministry of Finance to intervene in currency markets in an effort...
Amerika en Japan stoot die jen sáám op Theo Vorster, medestigter van Galileo Capital, gesels oor die olieprys, motorverkope...
The U.S. is stepping in to help boost Japan’s yen for the first time in nearly three decades after the...
The yen rallied sharply on Monday amid speculation that authorities may have intervened to prop up the currency again after...
The US joined Japan in engineering one of the most notable rebounds in the yen since the currency began its...
There’s a hot new sector fueling the stock market this year but you won’t find it on any official market...
Japan—famously slow to adopt digital technologies common across the developed world—has become a surprisingly fast adopter of AI, as it...
The yen slid to its weakest level against the dollar since 1986, a milestone that will generate unease in Japan...
Meet Micron, the chipmaker that just reported a 346% sales surge and helped stop a global AI selloff
Micron may not be a household name, but it may just be among the most important tech companies in the...
Keir Starmer hosts Prime Minister of Japan, Sanae Takaichi (pic: Downing Street) Investment in Scotland is part of an £18...
As the Trump administration tones down its public stance on Taiwan, key US allies Japan and the Philippines are becoming...
Whenever someone visits Japan, they mention the sights, the food, the impeccable transportation. Oftentimes, they mention futuristic toilets: the ubiquity...
The biggest snack maker in Japan is making some of its packaging black and white as the Iran war disrupts...
U.S. petroleum exports are rising to record highs amid the Iran war, and now a little-known developer will build a...