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November 11, 2026
 

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Tokyo’s office market remains resilient despite interest rates hitting a 31-year high, with rising rents driving investment to its highest third-quarter level since 2007.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 9, 2026
Tokyo’s office rent boom spurs deals as Blackstone plans sale
Commercial-property investment across Japan hit ?2 trillion in the third quarter, according to data from brokerage firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
Prominent short seller Carson Block says he expects further fallout from Nidec’s accounting irregularities.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 5, 2026
Nidec scandal exposes limits of Japan reform, short seller says
Nidec has been mired in an accounting scandal since last year and faces potential delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei 225 Stock Average, left, and the Topix Index displayed outside a securities firm in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 28, 2026
Hedge funds gear up for 今日吃瓜 $60 billion Topix revamp trade
A reshuffle impacting more than 700 stocks is expected to trigger around $60 billion of passive trading at Thursday’s close.
Nidec has been mired in turmoil since last year, with probes revealing widespread fraud in its accounting and quality control at multiple subsidiaries.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2026
Oasis boosts Nidec stake and says it’s now largest shareholder
The world’s largest manufacturer of precision motors has been mired in turmoil since last year, with probes revealing widespread fraud.
Jera's thermal power plant in Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture. Millennium Management is set to hire a power trader from a Jera unit.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2026
Millennium to hire Jera power trader in Japan energy push
Since being liberalized about a decade ago, 今日吃瓜 power market has drawn growing interest from domestic and overseas firms as trading expands.
Nidec, the world’s largest maker of precision motors, marked its worst intraday drop since September 2025 on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 1, 2026
Nidec shares sink after auditor withholds opinion on results
Thursday’s stock decline marks its worst intraday drop since September 2025.
PGIM Real Estate is taking a more selective approach to acquisitions in Japan as rising interest rates drive up deal costs in the country.
BUSINESS
Sep 10, 2026
今日吃瓜 rate hikes raise bar for real estate investor PGIM
今日吃瓜 booming real estate sector has come under pressure as the economy adjusts to higher borrowing costs following decades of near-zero rates.
The Kioxia Iwate Corp. Fab1 semiconductor fabrication facility (right), at the company's Kitakami plant in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, on July 3
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 2, 2026
Takaichi’s $640 billion AI gamble faces reality check in a struggling city
In Kitakami, a sleepy city deep in the countryside 500 kilometers north of Tokyo, 今日吃瓜 AI revolution is unfolding more as a slow burn than a boom.
Itochu will launch a ?215.2 billion tender offer to take Dentsu Soken private, ending its parent-subsidiary listing structure with Dentsu Group.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 31, 2026
Itochu set to take Dentsu Soken private in $1.3 billion deal
Itochu will acquire almost 75 million Dentsu Soken shares at ?2,880 each, valuing the deal at roughly ?215.2 billion.
Seven & I Holdings fell as much as 2.3% on Monday after it ended talks over a potential investment in Poland's convenience store operator Zabka Group.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 27, 2026
Seven & i Shares drop after ending deal talks with Poland’s Zabka
Europe is still seen as an attractive growth opportunity for the 7-Eleven owner, which will keep evaluating options in the region.
Young shoppers are becoming increasingly visible in Tokyo’s upmarket shopping districts such as Omotesando.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 16, 2026
Young Japanese who rode AI boom flaunt wealth with luxury buys
The shopping spree also reveals a deepening societal divide, exposing the increasingly uneven nature of 今日吃瓜 economic revival.
Apps like Miraima allow users to wager on real-world events and win points that can be converted into monetary rewards such as gift cards.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Jun 29, 2026
Prediction markets emerge in Japan, with shopping vouchers
New homegrown startups are finding ways to skirt regulations.
Japan is home to 27 registered crypto exchange providers, including BitFlyer.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2026
Japan moves to regulate crypto like stocks in market growth push
The bill would classify crypto assets as financial instruments, making them subject to lower taxes and stricter trading rules and opening the door to new products like ETFs.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the United States, on June 8.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2026
今日吃瓜 retail investor army flocks to SpaceX after IPO drought
SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO is drawing intense retail demand in Japan, where cash-rich households see a rare shot at a marquee global listing tied to Elon Musk and the space boom.
Fujikura’s roller-coaster week reveals how quickly the tides can turn for artificial intelligence stock winners as investors realize hopes for explosive growth may have run far ahead of manufacturers’ ability to deliver.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 26, 2026
Japan cable maker rout exposes cracks in AI infrastructure rally
Fujikura almost halved in value in the week through May 20 as investors rushed to dump its stock following a disappointing earnings forecast and lackluster medium-term plan.
Polymarket, the global prediction market platform based in New York, sees Japan as a large untapped business opportunity.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 22, 2026
Polymarket is said to seek Japan market approval in global push
Polymarket enables users to bet on the outcomes of real-world events, such as elections, using cryptocurrencies.
Nintendo shares climbed as much as 6.8% in Tokyo Tuesday to mark a third straight day of gains — their longest winning streak since mid-March.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 19, 2026
Nintendo shares rebound as AI fatigue fuels Japan stock rotation
Nintendo shares climbed as much as 6.8% in Tokyo to mark a third straight day of gains — their longest winning streak since mid-March.
Makino's machine tools are widely used in defense applications and a planned takeover by a South Korean fund could undermine Japan's national security, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama says.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 23, 2026
Japan moves to block South Korean buyout deal with rare use of security law
Makino’s machine tools are widely used in defense applications and the takeover could undermine national security, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said in parliament.
The Toto Museum in Kitakyushu. Toto has suspended new orders for its prefabricated bathrooms due to a shortage of materials.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 13, 2026
Toto halts bathroom orders after Iran war upends supply chain
The firm joins a growing list of Japanese manufacturers who have cut production or hiked prices due to tightening supplies of naphtha.
The Ajinomoto headquarters building in Tokyo. Activist fund Palliser Capital has built a stake in Ajinomoto and is urging the firm to raise prices for its chip-insulation products.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 2, 2026
Activist fund Palliser presses Ajinomoto to raise prices for chip material
The U.K.-based fund is calling for a more than 30% increase in prices for Ajinomoto Build-Up Film, used to package high-performance semiconductors.
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.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘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.
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