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...in Japan is forcing companies to rethink the way they operate, putting in jeopardy iconic features of its service economy, from 24-hour convenience stores to food trolleys on trains, write Kana Inagaki, Leo...
...LEO operators say the rules, designed 25 years ago, are outdated....
...Katherine Tai, the US trade representative, was asked directly by Japan’s foreign minister during her visit to Tokyo to lead the US back into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific...
...Top Google AI experts pick Japan to set up on their own (FT) #techAsia is co-ordinated by Nikkei Asia’s Katherine Creel in Tokyo, with assistance from the FT tech desk in London....
...has swooped on Finnish developer Rovio, with a €706mn ($776mn) bid to unite the console classic Sonic the Hedgehog with smartphone gaming pioneer Angry Birds, write the Financial Times’ Tim Bradshaw and Leo...
...Testing the water The activist fund Elliott Management has become one of the largest shareholders of Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing, marking the latest investor campaign in an equity market rich with targets, Leo...
...sensors, for example, are a critical component in the autonomous driving projects of carmakers around the world), and it is still significant in the consumer electronics game, write the Financial Times’ Leo...
...the richest business leader in China, has been living in central Tokyo for nearly six months, amid Beijing’s ongoing crackdown on the country’s technology sector, write the Financial Times’ Kana Inagaki, Leo...
...leo.lewis@ft.com...
...Katherine Venice Washington, DC, US...
...SoftBank explains itself SoftBank Group has sold a large part of its stake in Alibaba to reassure investors that its finances were solid after logging a record quarterly loss of $23bn, Kana Inagaki and Leo...
...s next level After decades of building fantasy worlds in video games, the heirs of Nintendo’s founding family are using their wealth to invest in technologies to rebuild planet earth, Kana Inagaki and Leo...
...Host Lilah Raptopoulos talks about facing death with explorer Leo Houlding and the possibility of avoiding it with science writer Anjana Ahuja....
...Even the wisteria is fabulous in Bridgerton,” says Katherine Byrne, an Ulster University lecturer who studies the genre....
...Katherine Venice Chief Executive,The Ethical Capitalism Group,New York, NY, US...
...The audience gets close-up concentration on the drama and the voices all come across strongly, Kathleen Wilkinson as Mrs Grose, Ed Lyon and Katherine Broderick as the two ghosts, Peter Quint and Miss Jessel...
...Actors Samuel West and Katherine Parkinson never touch as they speak Wade’s light, often droll dialogue: it is the music, played with searing passion and exquisite precision by members of the Aurora Orchestra...
...The Hunger Angel: A Novel, by Herta Müller, translated by Philip Boehm, Portobello Books, RRP£14.99 In this haunting and lyrical novel by 2009’s Nobel laureate, the 17-year-old Romanian protagonist, Leo...
...David Hill, director and company secretary, Leo Pharma, the pharmaceutical company. Paul Lincoln, senior civil servant, Ministry of Defence. Desmond Lynam, sports broadcaster....
...Anya Seton, who was born in 1906, wrote historical romances with adventure themes such as Dragonwyck, Green Darkness and Katherine....
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