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With its planned purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix becomes the owner of the HBO network, along with its library of hit shows like "The Sopranos" and "The White Lotus."
BUSINESS / Companies
Netflix to buy Warner Bros. in $72 billion cash and stock deal
The acquisition marks a dramatic strategic shift for Netflix, which has never made a deal of this scope.
BUSINESS / Companies
Toyota unveils concept LFA supercar, and it’s fully electric
Should the new concept go into production, it would sit at the pinnacle of the company’s vast lineup as its top-of-the-line performance vehicle.
BUSINESS / Companies
Meta’s Zuckerberg plans deep cuts for metaverse efforts
The metaverse effort was once framed as the future of the company and was the reason for the company changing its name from Facebook.
A Daihatsu Tanto in Tokyo's Ginza district. Small cars like this could soon be made in America.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 4, 2025
Trump to clear the road for minicar production in the U.S.
By Francis Tang
Japanese kei cars and trucks could soon be made in America.
Katahiro Yasukochi, head of the Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery and Manufacturing Workers, explains the group’s wage hike demand in Tokyo on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 4, 2025
Japan small makers’ unions to seek ¥17,000 pay scale hike
The Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery and Manufacturing Workers will make its largest-ever demand to narrow the wage gap between small and larger firms.
A JFE Steel plant in Kanagawa Prefecture. JFE will invest 157.5 billion rupees ($1.7 billion) in an equal joint venture with India’s JSW Steel.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 4, 2025
JFE Steel to form $3.4 billion venture with India’s JSW Steel
By Yusuke Maekawa and Preeti Soni
Demand for steel in the South Asian country is surging, led by a push for infrastructure projects by the government and growing real estate construction.
The number of Japanese firms trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is on track to drop by 58 to 3,778 by the end of the year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 4, 2025
M&A boom fuels record decline in Japan’s listed companies
By Kentaro Tsutsumi
The number of Japanese firms trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is on track to drop by 58 to 3,778 by the end of the year.
Askul's logistics center on Nov. 19 in Yokohama. The company resumed order receipts on the internet from corporate clients under its Askul brand service on Wednesday, following a system failure caused by a cyberattack.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 3, 2025
Askul resumes online orders after cyberattack
Internet order receipts, which had been suspended for about one and a half months, restarted at 9 a.m., the company said.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported the alleged theft to the authorities this year, triggering a probe that’s cast a spotlight on the sensitive nature of chipmaking technology.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 2, 2025
Taiwan charges Tokyo Electron in TSMC secrets theft case
By Debby Wu, Yuki Furukawa and Takashi Mochizuki
The development escalates a dispute involving two Asian linchpins of a chip industry increasingly vital to national and economic security.
Nomura Holdings CEO Kentaro Okuda vowed to build on the company’s earnings revival by strengthening businesses across the board, ranging from wealth to asset management and dealmaking.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 2, 2025
Nomura CEO pledges big growth phase in wealth and asset management
By Takashi Nakamichi and Ryo Horiuchi
Japan’s biggest securities firm has beaten analysts’ profit estimates for the past few quarters as households boost investments and corporate clients do more deals.

Japan to require nationality in property registrations
The government is looking to include nationality in a planned property registration database amid concerns that condominium purchases by foreign citizens have driven up prices.
The key points under discussion on policies affecting foreign nationals
Visitors head to Shirakawago, a popular tourist spot, in Gifu Prefecture in November.
Man accused of shooting Abe apologizes to former PM’s widow and family
The Nara District Court where Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, is on trial for the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe's wife, Akie, attended the trial on Wednesday for the first time.
China massing military ships across region in show of maritime force, sources say
A Chinese warship participates in joint Navy exercise of Iran, China and Russia in the Gulf of Oman, Iran, on March 12.
Japan’s fitness industry is catering to a new clientele: Health-conscious seniors
Masato Edamitsu, the 60-year-old founder of Shinshin Kenko Club, training and guiding his client
Kashima or Kashiwa: J. League title chase goes down to the wire
Kashima's Yuma Suzuki (center) takes a shot during a game against Kashiwa in March.
2025 was the year Japan’s box office returned
In 2025, “Demon Slayer” and “Kokuho” broke box-office records, while films such as “Renoir,” A Pale View of the Hills” and “Two Strangers, Two Seasons” garnered acclaim on the international film festival circuit. The year’s biggest loss was the death of Tatsuya Nakadai, an highly regarded actor who had worked with nearly all of the top directors of Japanese cinema’s postwar golden age.
The key points under discussion on policies affecting foreign nationals
Visitors head to Shirakawago, a popular tourist spot, in Gifu Prefecture in November.
A French cabbie behind the wheel in small-town Japan
A native of the Jura region of France, Severine Lamielle moved to Tottori Prefecture in 2024 and found a job as a taxi driver.
A new animation festival lands in Nagoya with big plans
Aichi Nagoya International Animation Film Festival director Shinichiro Inoue (left) and artistic director Tadashi Sudo (right) started the new event in Nagoya in part due to local government support and Aichi Prefecture’s ongoing investment in arts and culture.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Yumi Matsutoya began her decades-long career under her maiden name, Yumi Arai, but Japanese fans might know her better as “Yuming.”
Yumi Matsutoya’s human touch in an AI age
By Patrick St. Michel

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