Business
Business Series
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Energy Challenges / High Electricity Bills Overshadow Digitalization in Japan
Recent events have shaken global energy markets and affected Japan, which relies on imports for most...
November 29, 2023
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Energy Challenges / Deficient Electricity Transmission Network Causing Imbalanced Supply and Demand
Recent events have shaken global energy markets and affected Japan, which relies on imports for most...
November 29, 2023
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Energy Challenges / Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine Causing Natural Gas Price Hikes Worldwide
In August 2022, six months after Russia began its aggression against Ukraine, the price of natural g...
November 28, 2023
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Economic security issues / Use Strategies and Defensive Measures to Enter Huge Atypical Market
In February, the Beijing embassies of 11 countries and regions including Japan, France, the United S...
July 15, 2023
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Economic Security Issues / China Gives Preferential Treatment to Foreign Company Only to Obtain Technology
This is the second installment of a series exploring how Beijing’s actions are affecting firms doing...
July 14, 2023
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Economic Security Issues / China Pushing Domestic Production for Key Technologies
In China, President Xi Jinping’s administration is intensifying moves to fully domesticate and insul...
July 13, 2023
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Tech Regulation / Government Faces Challenge to Keep Up with Advances in IT Sector
Experts on a government council have raised concerns about the surge in popularity of ChatGPT since ...
June 25, 2023
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Nations Work Together to Counter Influence of Apple, Google
The Japanese government has drawn up a set of regulations targeting tech giants in Japan. The follow...
June 22, 2023
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Tech Regulation / Apple ‘Respectfully Disagrees’ with Japanese Proposals
The Japanese government has drawn up a set of regulations targeting tech giants in Japan. The follow...
June 20, 2023
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Tech firms in Japan touting services for digital education
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Major technology companies in Japan are touting their services at a time when s...
May 7, 2022
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Japan cosmetics makers accelerating plastic reduction efforts
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Cosmetics makers in Japan are accelerating their efforts to reduce plastic use ...
May 7, 2022
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Tsukuba venture offers space burial service
A start-up in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, has launched a new funeral business: space burial. In ear...
May 7, 2022
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Leaders: Satoshi Onoda, President, Representative Director, JERA Co., Inc. / Aiming to achieve high-efficiency thermal power generation toward decarbonization
JERA Co., Inc. is a joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings and Chubu Electric P...
December 18, 2021
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Road to Decarbonization 3 / Carbon pricing a challenge for many countries
The European Union’s emissions trading market, which covers more than 10,000 facilities including po...
November 21, 2021
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Road to Decarbonization 2 / Inconsistent nature of renewable energy cause for concern
About one hour’s drive from New Orleans is a district filled with petroleum and natural gas plants. ...
November 20, 2021
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