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...“Japan’s new national security policy is the most positive security development in east Asia in this century....
...“This is the most right-wing court we’ve seen in almost a century, and that’s emboldening conservative legal activists to swing for the fences with legal claims that would have been laughable just a few...
...After almost a century and a half in business and 74 years as a public company, Toshiba was delisted on Wednesday by the Tokyo Stock Exchange — a warning to global investors, said one of its outgoing board...
...Nevertheless, pressed by Tokyo’s directives on better governance, the attitude of Japan Inc towards its shareholders has changed over the past decade. That may have kept Buffett in these stocks....
...LTA hopes to reinvent the blimp for the 21st century with “zero-emissions” flights....
...In 1983, he founded Aristotle Inc, a technology consultancy that sold voter data to political campaigns....
...Earlier this month, I spoke with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger in Tokyo at an event hosted by Nikkei....
...Keeping its price at a similar level as five years ago is not a reflection of a cooler market, says Jeremiah Evarts, Phillips deputy chair of 20th-century and contemporary art, but more because its seller...
...By the time the 21st century arrived, costs were too high to export ore profitably to China, forcing the company to vertically integrate....
...Christie’s slimmer offering of 26 pieces at its 21st-century evening sale on May 15 beat estimates at $83.6mn ($98.8mn with fees), though it was dominated by one distinctly 20th-century work....
...Northeastern winter resorts proliferated in the second half of the 20th century to cater to skiers living in large cities such as New York, Philadelphia and Boston....
...For a quarter of a century, Japanese companies allowed wages to stagnate: all they had to do was keep pay very slightly ahead of inflation in a fundamentally deflationary economy....
...The MSCI ACWI returned 8.48 per cent annualised in the 10 years to the end of 2023, while the MSCI USA index returned 11.98 per cent....
...For Eisai and those affected by Alzheimer’s, however, lecanemab is a breakthrough they have been chasing for a quarter of a century....
...The company says: “For over 35 years, the Sompo Museum of Fine Art in Tokyo has proudly displayed ‘Sunflowers’....
...Related Stories Leading Hong Kong tycoons turn their backs on jet leasing Li Ka-shing to exit jet-leasing business in $4.3bn deal Hong Kong property tycoons play nice as China steps up pressure Zoom...
...They agree not to invest in certain things — the old-school method of avoiding arms groups and tobacco, but extended to oil and gas companies for a 21st century upgrade....
...It has an impressive brand story, with Thompson almost single-handedly saving the Thai silk industry in the middle of the last century....
...But for SMBC Nikko, a century-old business whose owner Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is one of Japan’s biggest financial industry brands, they have proved spectacularly damaging....
...Many of the contents Sheikh Hamad put in, which date from the 17th to the 20th century, now come to auction....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 8, 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...For centuries, the lethally poisonous fugu has maintained an unlikely position among Japan’s top culinary favourites....
...The hanko seals that have been widely used in Japan as personal signatures since the 19th century still endure....
...The USA’s Molly Seidel took bronze. On Friday night, Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon won the women’s 1,500m at the Olympic stadium....
...Earlier this month, while Tokyo was distracted by the Olympics, one of the city’s most famous games arcades announced on the quiet that it was closing down for good....
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