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With nearly $100 billion in capital, SoftBank’s Vision Fund is the world’s largest tech investing fund. But in recent months, bigger has not proven to be better, and a series of scandals and sho…
A paper published in Nutrition Journal investigated the link between the prevalence of ramen restaurants and stroke and heart attack mortality in Japanese prefectures. Meanwhile, the Kinki regio…
I love these examples, and I wish that I could have put this type of plan into action for the current holiday season. The more we recognize fast fashion/retail and the impact it has on not only …
What is the US getting out of Trump’s trade war with China? A deal is on the horizon to cut billions of dollars in tariffs on trade between the US and China. But it’s unlikely to achieve Tr…
But to many Hong Kong protesters, its themes—idealistic children uniting to fight against evil and corrupt adults—speak far more deeply. “We are all Shinji,” said San, a 27-year-old Ho…
As the passion for iPhone is wearing out thin in China, Air Pods is attempting to pick up its momentum and starting another "cultural" phenomenon. They say top salespeople sell passion…
From mandatory high heels to a ban on glasses, Japanese women have been busy pushing back against restrictive and anachronistic dress codes in the workplace in 2019. The program followed a repor…
Japanese investors are not holding back when it comes to backing Indian startups. Spread across 157 deals, more than 105 Indian startups received capital from Japanese investors between 2014 and…
Plastic is created during the production of oil and natural gas, as it’s turned into petroleum products. So if it tripled by 2050 what will happen to all of the petroleum products? We need …
Marathon runners will swap sweltering Tokyo for the cooler climes of northern Japan in the 2020 Olympics, and the capital city’s governor isn’t happy about it. The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo …
