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Tokyo, June 11 (Jiji Press)–Major Japanese financial institutions, including Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., will participate in a strategic collaboration between NEC Corp. and U.S. startup Anthropic, it was learned Thursday. Under the collaboration announced in April, NEC and Anthropic aim to

Tokyo, June 11 (Jiji Press)–Business sentiment among major Japanese companies fell in April-June, marking the first negative figure in four quarters, a government survey showed Thursday. According to a joint survey by the Finance Ministry and the Cabinet Office, the business sentiment

Tokyo, June 11 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s National Police Agency instructed the country’s 47 prefectural police departments Thursday to set up cooperative frameworks with rental storage and parcel delivery businesses to fight lone offender terrorism. The NPA hopes to collect information from the industries

Tokyo, June 11 (Jiji Press)–U.S. coffee shop chain Starbucks Corp. is considering selling its Japanese business, Bloomberg has reported. The deal, if realized, may stand at around 400 billion to 500 billion yen, according to the report. A sale of Starbucks’ Japan

Tokyo, June 11 (Jiji Press)–U.S. asset management company Apollo Global Management Inc. is seeking to buy a life insurer in Japan to gain market share in the country, according to the Financial Times. Apollo has considered buying life insurance subsidiaries of T&D

Nagoya, June 11 (Jiji Press)–Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda received 2,113 million yen in executive compensation in fiscal 2025, the highest pay for a Toyota executive for the third year running, the leading Japanese automaker has said. Toyoda’s pay rose about

Tokyo, June 11 (Jiji Press)–NPB+, a Japanese professional baseball live-updating app officially approved by the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, was launched this season, offering fans access to advanced tracking data such as exit velocity and pitch movement. “We hope to increase opportunities

Tokyo, June 11 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramov, have agreed that their countries will cooperate in various fields, including the energy sector. In their meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday, Motegi told Bayramov that Japan wants

Tokyo, June 11 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average temporarily gave up over 1,800 points in early trading Thursday. At 9:10 a.m., the index of 225 selected issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s top-tier Prime section plunged 1,827.92 points, or

Tokyo, June 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s political parties adopted Wednesday a proposal on measures to secure a sufficient number of Imperial Family members but postponed substantive discussions on a difficult issue–how to ensure stable Imperial succession. The proposal, drawn up by the leaders