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BYD’s new mini EV is ‘a huge threat’ to Japanese automakers and it’s coming soon
China’s EV leader is already starting to crack Japan’s auto market, where foreign automakers have struggled for years. BYD sold 2,223 EVs in Japan in 2024, accounting for 4% of overall ...
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Japanese drugmaker Shionogi to acquire JT's pharma units in $1.1bn deal
OSAKA/TOKYO -- Japanese drugmaker Shionogi said Wednesday that it will acquire Torii Pharmaceutical and other assets from Japan Tobacco in a deal worth around 160 billion yen ($1.1 billion ...
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Outlook for U.S.-Japan Relations: Perspectives from Japanese Legislators
The CSIS Japan Chair, in collaboration with Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER), cordially invites you to Outlook for U.S.-Japan Relations: Perspectives from Japanese Legislators. U.S.-Japan ...
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Why Japan's birth rate is falling and what the country's doing to try and reverse the population decline
In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan: a country that, since hitting a high of 128 million citizens in 2008, has lost population for 15 ...
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Japan's population is shrinking. Here's what it means – and what some are doing about it.
Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo.
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Utah's Japanese community, Japantown redevelopment plans focus at festival Saturday
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's Japanese community and Japanese culture are the focus of a festival Saturday that will also serve to call attention to proposed redevelopment plans in the Japantown area ...
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Japanese women have long sacrificed their surnames in marriage − politics and demographics might change that
Linda E. White received funding from the Japan Foundation and the Fulbright program for research on Japanese feminisms and Japanese family law. For centuries, women entering marriage in Japan have ...
The New York Times1mon
Once Shunned by Japanese Consumers, Korean Rice Now Flies Off the Shelves
Faced with shortages and rising prices for domestic rice, many Japanese are doing what was once unthinkable — buying a foreign variety. By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno John Yoon reported from a ...
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Brookfield's new Japanese restaurant owned and operated by a large family: 'We are a team'
BROOKFIELD — Fans of sushi, hibachi, teriyaki and other Japanese dishes will be happy to learn that a family-owned restaurant called Aki Japanese Cuisine has just opened a new location in ...
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Chip war: China’s memory chip giant CXMT issues rare recruitment ad for Japanese branch
China’s leading memory chip manufacturer, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), has issued a rare recruitment announcement for its Japanese branch, shedding light on the subsidiary as the company ...
The New York Times1mon
The Japanese Citrus You’re About to See Everywhere
By Yukari Sakamoto Although citrus might be more associated with the cuisines of Mexico and Peru, it’s central to Japanese cooking, where it lends tartness and floral aroma to many meals ...
The Washington Post1mon
At a new Japanese market, shop all you want — but don’t miss the cafe
Which is why I invited my friend Yuki Sugiyama, a Kyoto native, to go shopping with me on a recent Saturday when Marufuji Japanese Market opened in Vienna, Virginia. Launched in January ...