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Takeshi Niinami, chief executive officer of Suntory Holdings Ltd., during a Bloomberg Television interview on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from January 15 to 19. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Suntory’s outspoken CEO resigns after police drug search

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

CHONGQING, CHINA – DECEMBER 29: Shoppers walk past a Uniqlo store during a busy day in a commercial district on December 29, 2024, in Chongqing, China. The store’s seasonal sale draws customers, reflecting the growing influence of global fast-fashion brands in China’s urban centers, alongside traditional street vendors visible nearby. China’s economy is the world’s second-largest, with a nominal GDP of approximately $13 trillion as of Q3 2024, reflecting a growth rate of 4.6% year-on-year despite challenges such as a struggling real estate sector and weak consumer demand. (Photo by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)

Uniqlo owner falls most in five months on China concerns

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

A general view of the Center for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., on Aug. 6, 2022. The CDC is opening its first regional office in a developed nation, with the post in Japan set to enhance its work with allies on disease monitoring amid rising geopolitical tensions with China.

CDC opens office in Tokyo amid rising geopolitical tensions with China

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

Shoppers pass a Uniqlo store at a mall on Boxing Day in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. The consumer price index rose 6.8% from a year ago, higher than economist expectations of 6.7% and down from 6.9% in October, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday in Ottawa. Photographer: Galit Rodan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Uniqlo owner tries to make working in retail attractive with raises of up to 40% as Japan’s inflation soars

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

People walks past a Yoshinoya retaurant, which operates a chain of popular beef bowl restaurants in Japan and abroad, in Tokyo on April 19, 2022. – One of Japan’s most popular fast food firms said April 19 it had fired a top executive who reportedly suggested a marketing strategy of getting “virgins addicted” to the company’s products. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP) (Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)

Restaurant chain exec fired after saying his goal was to get rural girls hooked on beef bowls like they were meth

By Kanoko Matsuyama, Lily Nonomiya, and others

Investors flee COVID pill drugmaker on report tying treatment to birth defects

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

A security guard wearing a protective face mask sits inside a Uniqlo store, operated by Fast Retailing Co., at the Okhotny Ryad shopping mall in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, June 1, 2020. With Russia’s economic activity declining by a third during a two-month nationwide lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, the Kremlin is now seeking to limit the fallout. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Uniqlo shutters shops in Russia days after CEO said chain would stay because ‘clothing is a necessity of life’

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

Tadashi Yanai, chairman and chief executive officer of Fast Retailing Co., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Asias largest retailer Fast Retailing sees profits growing slightly beyond analysts expectations this fiscal year, driven by a robust recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in the Uniqlo owners key China and Japan markets. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Uniqlo owner slammed for decision to stay in Russia as #BoycottUNIQLO movement gains steam

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

Tadashi Yanai, chairman and chief executive officer of Fast Retailing Co., attends a news conference.

‘Clothing is a necessity of life’: Uniqlo owner defends choice to stay in Russia as other retailers flee

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

NEW YORK – NEW YORK – MARCH 1:People walk by Pfizer headquarters on March 1, 2022. In New York. New studies seem to suggest that the Pfizer vCOVID-19 vaccines didn’t protect kids against omicron infections,but did help to prevent serious disease. (Photo by Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress)

Omicron may be less lethal than other COVID-19 variants but it’s still 40% deadlier than the flu, scientists say

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

A member of the medical staff wearing full PPE takes a male swab as part of a rapid COVID-19 antigen test.<br />
On Monday, January 31, 2022, in<br />
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Catching Omicron may not offer much protection against future COVID infections, study shows

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

People wearing face masks use an escalator at Shibuya district in Tokyo on January 19, 2022, as Japan’s government approved new coronavirus restrictions on a large part of the country, including the capital to battle record infections fuelled by the Omicron variant. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP) (Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)

Some of Japan’s leading politicians want to start treating COVID more like the flu. The government’s not quite sure yet

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

ANTIOQUIA, COLOMBIA – NOVEMBER 02: Worker wearing protective gear shows dried cannabis plants at Maria Juana Gardens facility in La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia, on November 02, 2021. The boom in cultivating medicinal cannabis has aroused sudden interest among businessmen and more so now when the Government signed a decree that will allow the export of the dried flower of cannabis as raw material and not necessarily as a transformed product. The cannabis plant and the coca leaf have been stigmatized in Colombia and in the world, but due to their healing power they represent millionaire income for the health sector in the country, it is expected to increase production by 600 percent in the next two years. (Photo by Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Cannabis compounds stopped COVID virus from infecting human cells in lab study

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – DECEMBER 10: A person registering for her inoculation at a popup walk-in COVID-19 vaccination center in Taipei Main station in Taipei, Taiwan, December 10, 2021. (Photo by Walid Berrazeg/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Taiwan investigates possible COVID lab leak as scientist tests positive after bites from infected mouse

By Samson Ellis, Chi-Hua Chien, and others

A Philadelphia Department of Public Health mobile Covid-19 testing site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. The earliest studies on omicron are giving cause for cautious optimism: While vaccines may be less powerful against the new variant, protection can be fortified with boosters. Photographer: Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A new study suggests that the Omicron variant is over four times more transmissible in its early stage than Delta

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg