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Japan is currently seeking to strengthen its economic security, including institutional frameworks and policies, to safeguard critical technologies and promote international economic security cooperation.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 17, 2025
Japan continues to set the pace for economic security
Tokyo is a great place to discuss these issues since Japan has been the pacesetter for economic security policy for nearly a decade.
Dan Kerrigan, CEO of Interactive Brokers Securities Japan, said inflation is here and more money is likely to move into stocks.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2025
Last man standing is bullish on Japanese stocks
Dan Kerrigan, the CEO of Interactive Brokers, has been here for decades and seen it all.
Resistance to adopting digital technologies, restrictive EU regulations, and energy-price shocks are potential explanations for Europe's lagging productivity.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 10, 2024
Why is Europe losing the productivity race?
A forthcoming report from Mario Draghi will recommend removing barriers to competition, which would intensify the pressure on firms to innovate.
Economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura (center) is right to insist that economic security is linked to national power and determines the fate of the nation. REUTERS
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2023
Economic security demands attention and defies simple explanation
A global challenge: Resilience and innovation are key strategies in the pursuit of economic security.
Members of the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild take part in a picket line outside Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California, on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2023
AI shines a spotlight on Hollywood hypocrisy
Studios haven¡¯t informed or paid background actors properly for being digitally scanned, yet they want the same courtesy from AI companies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2023
The AI gold rush will take humanity to some dark places
Encoding iris scans on the blockchain shows a need to curb Silicon Valley¡¯s savior complex.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Smart Countryside
Aug 25, 2022
For an aging Osaka suburb, the best ¡®smart city¡¯ innovations are low-key
As a once-thriving ¡®new town,¡¯ Nankadai is now trying to introduce modern initiatives to an aging population who see the area as being akin to the countryside.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Aug 14, 2022
How Japan is building on U.S. policy for economic security
A number of factors have left Tokyo unable to maintain its industrial competitiveness and security through existing policies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2022
It takes a smart village to build sustainable prosperity
To improve the quality of life, we need to expand access to high-quality services ¡ª including water, energy, transport and internet ¡ª even to far-flung rural areas.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 12, 2022
Smart countryside: How tech can help revive Japan¡¯s rural regions
Changes in work patterns wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are already drawing some remote workers to the countryside.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2022
Japanese space startups forced to manage without Russian Soyuz rockets
Sanctions over Russia¡¯s aggression have effectively made it impossible to utilize the rockets, which were used for 22 of the 136 successful rocket launches worldwide in 2021.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2022
The supply-side fight against inflation
A recession can be avoided if policymakers recognize the large role that supply-side measures must play in restoring price stability.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2022
Tesla may be driving itself out of the running
The British bicycle bubble of the 1800s should signal caution for Tesla¡¯s stock as rival car companies catch up with EV technology.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2022
AI¡¯s hold over humans is starting to get stronger
Artificial intelligence isn¡¯t on the cusp of sentience. But its growing sway over us should still be a cause for concern.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2022
Bringing facial recognition to war is a bad idea
New York-based Clearview AI revealed it had offered the government of Ukraine free access to its ¡®facial network¡± to help stave off the Russian invasion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 13, 2022
Beijing becomes a rising star in the global rule-maker race
In the coming decades, the biggest global threat will not be China the rule-breaker, but China the rule-maker.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 5, 2022
COVID-19 and the rise of digital capitalism
The pandemic has allowed the dominant players in digital industries to conduct a full-scale experiment regarding the virtual world¡¯s assimilation of the physical one.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 4, 2021
AUKUS has outlined its potential, but has also left a sour taste
Japan and other nations have greeted the alliance¡¯s formation with caution, and at present the true scope of the group remains unclear.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2021
Market moving language under machine learning microscope
Advocates say NLP can unlock the untapped potential for insight from the world of verbal ¡®unstructured data.¡¯
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2021
China isn¡¯t the AI juggernaut the West fears
China¡¯s AI isn¡¯t so much a tool of world domination as a narrowly deployed means of domestic control.
Japanese payment processor¡¯s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Trump says ¡®Japan¡¯ instead of Iran at meeting in Ankara
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference during a NATO leaders' summit in Ankara on Wednesday.
Wakatakakage injury casts pall over July meet, but potential new stars loom
Nicholas Tarasenko trains at Minato stable in August 2024.
Osaka trumps Tokyo as both ranked among world¡¯s top 10 most livable cities
Osaka¡¯s infrastructure earned higher marks than Tokyo¡¯s in the Economist Intelligence Unit¡¯s latest Global Liveability Index.
¡®Princess Mononoke¡¯ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
The ¡°Princess Mononoke¡± adaptation was created under Shochiku¡¯s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
The beating heart inside ¡®Human Vapor¡¯
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix¡¯s ¡°Human Vapor,¡± says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Okinawa¡¯s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.
What Yokoze can teach Japan about rural revival
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