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Four-time Grand Slam champion pulls out of her first WTA final in three years after winning the first set of the Auckland Open. Naomi Osaka has retired from the final of the Auckland Classic with an abdominal injury, a blow to the Japanese star just a week before the start of the Australian Open. Playing…
Biden cites need to ‘level playing field’ in long anticipated blocking of $14.6bn sale likely to roil ties with Tokyo. United States President Joe Biden has blocked the $14.9bn sale of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based US Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel. The move on Friday deals a potentially fatal blow to the merger plan, which had…
Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with SkyDrive to make “flying cars”. The companies will use a Suzuki Group factory in central Japan to make electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and aim to begin production by around spring next year, Suzuki said in a statement. SkyDrive will…
Japan’s competition watchdog is expected to find Google guilty of violating the country’s antitrust law, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday, citing sources. The Japan Fair Trade Commission(JFTC) will soon issue a cease and desist order asking Google to halt its monopolistic practices, the report added. Google did not immediately respond to request for comment while…
Japan’s competition watchdog is expected to find Google guilty of violating the country’s antitrust law, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday, citing sources. The Japan Fair Trade Commission(JFTC) will soon issue a cease and desist order asking Google to halt its monopolistic practices, the report added. Google did not immediately respond to request for comment while…
Japan’s competition watchdog is expected to find Google guilty of violating the country’s antitrust law, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday, citing sources. The Japan Fair Trade Commission(JFTC) will soon issue a cease and desist order asking Google to halt its monopolistic practices, the report added. Google did not immediately respond to request for comment while…
Sony Group thought it had a strong script to woo audiences in the world’s most-populous nation, but the merger that was going to make it the leader of India’s television entertainment market was doomed from the start. By pursuing it for almost two years, the Japanese company has become an unwitting actor in a farce….
Honda Motor sketched plans for a drawn-out deal that amounts to an acquisition of Nissan Motor, as Japan’s automakers struggle to keep up in an increasingly competitive global car industry.The two announced a tentative agreement Monday to set up a joint holding company that will aim to list shares in August 2026. While their executives…
A Japanese toilet maker has issued a public service announcement (PSA), advising users to refrain from wiping their seats with toilet paper. Toto, a top Japanese toilet bowl maker was forced to issue the directive after a post went viral on social media where a user lamented that their newly installed Toto seat got scratched…
Seoul: North Korea will launch its “toughest” ever strategy to counter the United States, state media said Sunday, reporting on a key year-end party meeting overseen by leader Kim Jong Un. The nuclear-armed state held a five-day party meeting last week as part of a drive to chart the country’s course for 2025, the official…
