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Abdul Hafeez Khoso, one of 39 Pakistani farmers pursuing a climate lawsuit against German firms, chants "polluters have to pay" with schoolchildren during an awareness event in Jacobabad in Pakistan's Sindh province on July 29.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 11, 2026
Pakistani farmers in long fight to make German firms pay for flood damage
The litigation argues the firms’ emissions contributed to climate change and turbo-charged rain that wiped out farmers’ crops, livestock and homes.
The Japan Fair Trade Commission is investigating a possible cartel regarding shipping prices among the nation's four major beer companies.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2026
Brewers in cartel probe all held beer prices steady after 2023 tax cut
The Japan Fair Trade Commission is investigating a possible cartel regarding shipping prices among Asahi, Kirin, Suntory and Sapporo.
Mobicom, a KDDI subsidiary, is the dominant mobile phone carrier in Mongolia, serving 1.8 million subscribers in a country of 3.5 million people.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 20, 2026
KDDI subsidiary faces criticism and questions over Mongolian wildfire
Mobicom is also likely to be hit with compensation claims after a company vehicle ignites a blaze in a nature preserve.
Four of the country's largest beer makers, which collectively control more than 90% of the market, are suspected of coordinating the timing and scale of price increases for beer, low-malt beer and other beer-like beverages over several years.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 10, 2026
Beer maker leaders may have been aware of price cartel
Some of the officials with Asahi Breweries, Kirin Brewery, Sapporo Breweries and Suntory Holdings admitted to the cartel during an investigation.
Japanese authorities raided four major beer manufacturers on Wednesday over suspicions they colluded to colluded to raise prices charged to wholesalers in a violation of the Antimonopoly Act.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2026
Japan watchdog raids four major brewers over suspected beer price cartel
The alleged price collusion potentially affected consumers across a market worth more than ?1 trillion annually.
Minoru Yasui, the new president of Chubu Electric Power, speaks to reporters in Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Thursday.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2026
New chief of Chubu Electric pledges governance overhaul
Minoru Yasui has succeeded Kingo Hayashi, who resigned as president to take responsibility for scandals at the firm.
Bid-rigging cases were found for repair work contracts for 171 condominium buildings in Tokyo and six prefectures around the capital.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2026
42 Japanese firms engaged in bid-rigging over condo repair work
The Japan Fair Trade Commission imposed fines totaling about ?1.6 billion on 37 of the firms.
Tessellation, a garment factory in Vietnam's Hoa Binh province on Sept. 8
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 26, 2026
How firms linked to sanctioned Chinese cotton giant sell clothes to U.S.
Since Esquel’s blacklisting, three garment makers in Vietnam have continued to source much of its cotton while also selling products to the U.S.
Mizuho Bank has accused Radiant World of an alleged fraud linked to iron-ore receivables that Glencore appeared to owe Radiant.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 23, 2026
Radiant World sent Mizuho fake Glencore email, court filing says
Details of the email exchange were outlined by Mizuho as part of a lawsuit in Singapore, where it has accused Radiant World of an alleged fraud.
Publisher Nikkei says it takes the case of overcharging advertising fees seriously and will take measures to prevent any recurrence.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2026
Nikkei workers overcharged advertisers tens of millions of yen
“We are taking the case seriously as it undermines the trust of our advertisers and readers,” said Nikkei.
Tokyo-based company Same Two has been fined ?150 million for bid-rigging related to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2021.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 16, 2026
Ex-event firm chief guilty over Tokyo Games bid-rigging
All six companies charged over Tokyo Games bid-rigging were found guilty at the Tokyo District Court.
Japan's minister of science and technology, Yohei Matsumoto, speaks during a budget committee session in the Lower House of parliament in Tokyo in December 2025. The government must determine how to connect science, innovation and security while managing the tensions created when their priorities converge.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 11, 2026
今日吃瓜 science-security convergence needs guardrails
The connection between science and technology policy and security, however, is not new.
As the reuse market expands in Japan, the presence of malicious companies has become a problem.
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2026
As reuse market thrives, Japan works to combat malicious businesses
The reuse market, including companies that collect unwanted items, is expanding amid growing demand for such services in households with few members.
In July, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi called for more investments and loans to the defense industry at a session with the Japanese Bankers Association and others.
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2026
Japanese banks in a bind over defense investments and loans
Commercial financial institutions generally remain cautious out of concern over possible deterioration in their corporate image.
The Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York in February 2025. Apple has claimed in a new court filing that OpenAI is destroying evidence and that a former iPhone engineer used confidential Apple material in his work at the company.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 1, 2026
Apple claims OpenAI is using confidential Apple material and destroying evidence
A court brief has been filed in support of Apple’s motion for expedited pretrial fact-finding in the lawsuit, which accuses the ChatGPT-maker of stealing trade secrets.
Chubu Electric is suspected of over-billing for costs related to decommissioning work on the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture.
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2026
Chubu Electric faces scrutiny over reactor decommissioning costs
The company allegedly misrepresented the progress of construction work at some reactors when applying for reimbursement of costs related to decommissioning, sources said.
Osaka Prefectural Police investigators raid Takenaka's Osaka headquarters in the city of Osaka on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 19, 2026
Former Takenaka manager arrested for breach of trust over Osaka Expo project
Tatsumi Kawai, 61, is suspected of conspiring with a subcontractor to have it repeatedly overcharge in 2025, resulting in ?13.69 million in damages.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify in a tech addiction trial in Los Angeles on Feb. 18. Meta is again defending itself in court over claims it caused young people to become addicted to social media, this time in the first bellwether federal trial, brought by states seeking roughly $200 billion in damages.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 19, 2026
Meta hooked children and misled public: prosecutors
A coalition of states is asking Meta be hit with $200 billion in penalties for making products addictive to children, in what many have called social media’s “big tobacco moment.”
Donald Trump Jr. (left) and Eric Trump gesture outside the Nasdaq building after ringing the opening bell to celebrate the closing of ALT5’s $1.5 billion offering and adoption of its $WLFI Treasury Strategy at the Nasdaq Market, in New York on Aug. 13, 2025.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 18, 2026
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies
Experts say the business collaboration runs counter to the Trump administration’s stance toward Chinese tech companies.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, looks on during the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis" in Washington on Jan. 31, 2024.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 18, 2026
Meta stares down trillion-dollar threat as landmark social media trial begins
The attorneys general of 29 states are seeking not only massive financial penalties, but also court orders that could force Meta to change how it operates its platforms.
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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