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Japanese companies are paying older workers to sit by a window and do nothing—while Western CEOs demand super-AI productivity just to keep your job
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Japanese companies are paying older workers to sit by a window and do nothing—while Western CEOs demand super-AI productivity just to keep your job

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Trump warns countries they could face something ‘far worse’ if they try to renegotiate trade deals. What options do they have?
Asia

Trump warns countries they could face something ‘far worse’ if they try to renegotiate trade deals. What options do they have?

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Economy

India joins U.S. ‘Pax Silica’ semiconductor alliance easing tariff and energy tensions

By Rajesh Roy and The Associated Press
February 20, 2026
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Crypto

Japan’s first female prime minister wants to be Trump’s close ally on rare earths

By Mari Yamaguchi and The Associated Press
February 19, 2026
Investor Warren Buffett, pictured during a trip to Japan in 2011.
Investing

Warren Buffett’s big bet on Japan earned Berkshire Hathaway $24 billion in just 6 years

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February 10, 2026
Japanese prime minister’s landslide win gives her party a lower-house supermajority and more room to enact a right-wing agenda
Politics

Japanese prime minister’s landslide win gives her party a lower-house supermajority and more room to enact a right-wing agenda

By Mari Yamaguchi, Foster Klug and The Associated Press
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Travel & Leisure

How Japan replaced France as the country young Americans obsessively romanticize—they’re longing for civility they don’t see at home

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This ‘mutually assured destruction’ threat in the $7.3 trillion JGB market helps prevent Japan from triggering a debt crisis — for now
Economy

This ‘mutually assured destruction’ threat in the $7.3 trillion JGB market helps prevent Japan from triggering a debt crisis — for now

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February 1, 2026
Nobuo Hayasaka, president of Kioxia Holdings Corp., stands for photographs during the company's listing ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024.
AI

A Japanese company you’ve never heard of walloped every major US company to become the best-performing stock of 2025

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December 31, 2025
Nintendo’s secret to becoming a design powerhouse? Developers who have stayed at the company for decades
Asia

Nintendo’s secret to becoming a design powerhouse? Developers who have stayed at the company for decades

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November 28, 2025
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi raises her hand
Success

As Tokyo embraces a 4-day workweek to fight ‘death by overwork,’ Japan’s new prime minister just called a 3 a.m. meeting

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November 17, 2025
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Innovation

Apple is now selling a $150 sling for your iPhone made by the same designer who created Steve Jobs’ iconic black turtleneck

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November 11, 2025
A Japanese father holds his daughter's hand walking down the street
Asia

Tokyo is turning to a 4-day workweek in a desperate attempt to help Japan shed its unwanted title of ‘world’s oldest population’

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November 4, 2025
President Donald Trump, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shake hands before their summit talk at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.
Asia

Trump tells Japan’s first woman Prime Minister she has a ‘very strong handshake’ in Tokyo meeting

By Josh Boak, Chris Megerian and The Associated Press
October 28, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Xi Jinping, China's president, shake hands during a news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017.
Asia

‘Deal, no deal, or disaster’: Trump is leaving for an Asia trip that could define his second term

By Chris Megerian and The Associated Press
October 21, 2025

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