Japan and IBM will invest in a factory to produce 2nm chips. The country invests 70 billion yen in factories and other companies such as NEC, Toyota, Sony, NTT, Softbank, Kioxia and MUFG Bank. The announcement comes after an earlier report for a joint technology research program with the US […]
The leaders of the so-called Quad, the US, India, Japan and Australia, expressed concern about the situation in Ukraine during the Tokyo summit, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday. “The four leaders had a frank discussion about the impact of the situation in Ukraine on the Indo-Pacific […]
A snowstorm has caused severe traffic disruption in northern Japan. On the northern island of Hokkaido, about 70 percent of daily train traffic to and from Sapporo station has been stopped, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported Monday. Vehicle traffic was also severely affected by the storm. One person was […]
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has returned to Earth after spending 12 days on the International Space Station. The trip served the 46-year-old Japanese in preparation for a future tourist flight around the moon. Maezawa landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan along with cameraman Yozo Hirano and cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin. […]
The struggling Chinese real estate group Evergrande fell hard on the stock exchange in Hong Kong on Thursday after the resumption of trading in the share. Investors could not trade in Evergrande for more than two weeks due to takeover talks with industry partner Hopson Development. Chinese media, wanted […]
The stock exchange in Tokyo ended Thursday with a profit, breaking an eight-day loss series. Investors took to the recovery on Wall Street, which welcomed a Republican proposal to raise the debt ceiling into December with relief. The ongoing deadlock in Washington over raising the debt ceiling has been […]
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has officially opened the Tokyo Olympics. Naruhito (61) did so from the grandstand in the almost empty Olympic Stadium, after which the fireworks shot through the sky in Tokyo again. President Thomas Bach of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and chairman Seiko Hashimoto of the Japanese […]
Stock exchanges in Japan and Taiwan showed heavy losses on Monday amid concerns about the corona situation in both countries. In Japan, a state of emergency was introduced in three additional regions last Friday. The slow vaccination program in the country also put price pressure on the stock market. […]
The Tokyo stock exchange made a small profit on Thursday. The major Japanese marine transportation companies, in particular, advanced on the hope that these companies will benefit from the global economic recovery from the corona crisis. On the other hand, the sustained rise in the number of corona infections […]
The Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi was put considerably higher on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Friday. Investors welcomed a report from Reuters news agency that the world’s third-largest smartphone manufacturer plans to make electric cars at a Chinese carmaker Great Wall Motor factory. Xiaomi seems to be following […]
