Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: The reluctant icon?
For the better part of a 10-year career, the performer’s aesthetic defined Japan’s pop culture. Her latest album, “Candy Racer,”…
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Buybacks turn major Japan firms into nation’s whales as BOJ eases ETF purchases
SoftBank, Toyota, Takeda Pharmaceutical and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group have all announced major share-buyback plans recently….
Twitter has spoken: Elon Musk should sell $21 billion Tesla stake
A majority of 3.5 million Twitter users — 58% — said they’d support a sale in a Twitter poll that Musk launched Saturday.
SMBC Nikko and staff probed over suspicious stock transactions
Sources say Japan’s regulator is investigating alleged market manipulation through repeated transactions intended to prevent…
Netflix estimates ‘Squid Game’ will be worth almost $900 million
The robust figure underscores the windfall that one megahit can generate in the streaming era.
China’s power crunch is next economic shock beyond Evergrande
A crackdown on power consumption is being driven by rising demand for electricity and surging coal and gas prices as well as…
How Japan should make use of its ¥1 quadrillion in household savings
In order to create an asset management system that meets global standards, Japan must drastically change its employment practices….
Tokyo stocks extend losses as caution prevails
The outcome of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy meeting and the possible collapse of the Chinese real estate conglomerate Evergrande…
Does Didi’s crash point to the future of U.S.-China financial frictions?
While the rivals are said by some to be in the midst of a “new Cold War,” some financial businesses linking the two are thriving….
All the foreign media praise aside, Japan’s convenience stores are fighting a slump
While journalists trapped in an Olympic bubble wrote a lot about how Japanese convenience stores came to their aid, the companies…