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November 12, 2026
 

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A cargo ship leaves the Port of Savannah in Savannah, Georgia, in June 2025.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2026
Shipping firms foresee smaller profits in 2026 as Red Sea tensions ease
Though not guaranteed, a restart of Red Sea shipping is more likely now successful passages have been made for the first time since Houthis began attacking vessels in 2023.
An Alibaba logo is displayed at the company's booth at the China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing on Sept. 10, 2025. Price wars are holding back earnings estimates for Chinese internet platform companies while artificial intelligence hardware makers are pulling ahead.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 27, 2026
China AI hardware firms trump internet giants in growth outlook
The AI boom is propelling upward revisions for hardware names in contrast with internet platforms held back by price wars.
China Eastern Airlines is the biggest operator of flights between China and Japan, leaving it more exposed than China Southern Airlines and Air China to a pullback in demand.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 23, 2025
Chinese airlines see profit hopes dim as Japan tensions dent demand
China ordered curbs on flights to Japan and other economic retaliatory measures after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made comments related to Taiwan.
A branch of SMBC Nikko Securities, a unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, in Tokyo
BUSINESS
May 12, 2025
今日吃瓜 megabanks to remain buoyed by BOJ’s long game to hike rates
The central bank stood pat earlier this month after a cycle of rate hikes since March 2024 and halving its economic growth outlook to 0.5% for this fiscal year.
Maersk shipping containers are stored aboard the ‘Albert Maersk’ in Navi Mumbai, India, on Feb. 28.
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 3, 2025
U.S. tariffs and easing of Middle East tensions threaten reversal of shipping boom
Global liner rates fell 5.9% sequentially in the week ended Feb. 27, after earlier breaking below $3,000 per 12-meter container for the first time since early May
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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