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November 12, 2026
 

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

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.
Yoshifumi Murase (right), commissioner of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, hands a business improvement order to Chubu Electric President Minoru Yasui in Tokyo on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 6, 2026
Chubu Electric given business improvement order over data scandal
The industry ministry called on the firm to eliminate the insular nature of its highly specialized nuclear power division.
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.
An unlicensed mining operation in Toboali, on the southern shores of the island of Bangka, Indonesia, in April 2021
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2026
How to improve global mineral governance
Global South countries should work together to ensure that mineral supply chains deliver equitable economic benefits and protect the environment.
A former manager at Takenaka admitted to having a subcontractor submit inflated bills for construction work related to the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2026
Ex-Takenaka manager admits breach of trust over Osaka Expo
The former manager acknowledged having a subcontractor submit inflated bills for construction work related to last year’s World Exposition.
Nidec President Michio Kaida (right) bows in apology during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 29, 2026
Nidec unable to obtain auditor’s opinion on fiscal 2025 report by end of October
The motor manufacturer, mired in an accounting scandal, is unable to complete procedures sought by audit firm PwC Japan Group.
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.
The Bank of Kyoto headquarters in Kyoto
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2026
Rising rates put Kyoto bank’s $6 billion gain on stakes in play
Authorities have been urging lenders such as Kyoto Financial to phase out the practice of cross-shareholdings to improve corporate governance.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange placed Nidec on "special alert" in October 2025 and gave it a year to improve its internal controls or risk delisting.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 27, 2026
Nidec to sue former executives over accounting issues
Besides Shigenobu Nagamori, the company plans to sue former chairman Hiroshi Kobe and former chief executives Mitsuya Kishida and Jun Seki.
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.
Nidec founder Shigenobu Nagamori’s wealth has declined to around $3.3 billion following a plunge in the company's shares, as Nidec shares account for almost half of his fortune.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 21, 2026
Nidec scandal erases nearly $1 billion from founder Nagamori’s wealth
The precision-motor manufacturer has been mired in turmoil ever since accounting misconduct and quality control issues were uncovered in 2025.
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.
Nidec's outside committee has concluded that founder Shigenobu Nagamori and other executives bear civil liability for damages linked to years of improper accounting.
BUSINESS
Oct 19, 2026
Nidec legal reckoning reaches founder and shares drop to decade low
A crisis that has prompted the motor maker’s biggest shareholder to call for a review of privatization options has deepened.
The Nidec headquarters building in Kyoto. The company is considering legal action, including seeking damages, against founder Shigenobu Nagamori and other current and former executives over accounting irregularities uncovered last year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2026
Nidec to seek damages from founder and executives over accounting fraud
The motor manufacturer said it had concluded that the executives violated laws and regulations in the course of their duties.
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.
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.
Prudential Life President and CEO Hiromitsu Tokumaru (second from left) and other executives apologize in Tokyo on Thursday after releasing a third-party investigation report on fraud by its employees.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2026
今日吃瓜 Prudential Life ordered to halt operations for over three months
The suspension order comes after numerous former and current employees were found in January to have improperly received ?3.1 billion from customers.
The number of initial public offerings in Japan this year fell to 32 through the end of September, the lowest nine-month tally since 2012.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2026
Japan deal drought cuts IPO fundraising to lowest in 14 years
The development, amid regulatory changes and a dearth of AI-related companies, contrasts with a dealmaking boom across Asia.
Hiromitsu Tokumaru, president of Prudential Financial’s Japan unit, and two others will take pay cuts over an employee misconduct scandal.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2026
Prudential Japan executives take pay cuts over staff misconduct
A probe found that issues at the unit of the U.S. insurance group stemmed from structural problems in its governance framework and business model.
Nidec has been mired in turmoil after probes uncovered widespread fraud in its accounting and quality control.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2026
Oasis urges Nidec to seek a buyout and warns of delisting risk
The Japanese electric motor maker has been mired in turmoil after probes uncovered widespread fraud in its accounting and quality control.
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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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