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Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.
TOKYO -- As labor unions at Japan's largest corporations celebrated their biggest wage increases in over three decades this month, Masuo Ueda was busy supporting the country's struggling animators, who toil long hours for less than minimum wage to keep the $19 billion anime industry able to churn out hits.
TOKYO -- Japan looks to collaborate with the private sector to develop a next-generation passenger aircraft, hoping to avoid the pitfalls that doomed Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' SpaceJet by encouraging the participation of multiple companies and helping create technology standards, Nikkei has learned.
MANILA -- The Philippines' new sovereign wealth fund is set to launch in the third quarter of this year with "proper" corporate governance to avoid the fate of scandal-ridden 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), according to its CEO.
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French catches up with Thailand correspondent Francesca Regalado on her recent interview with Richard Teng, CEO of cryptocurrency giant Binance.
TOKYO -- Payouts to shareholders by listed companies in Japan are expected to reach an all-time high of about 25 trillion yen ($165 billion) for the fiscal year ending this month, amid growing earnings as well as pressure to use capital more effectively.
KUCHING, Malaysia -- In an ambitious pivot away from its entrenched oil and gas legacy, Malaysia's Sarawak is working to carve out a new identity as Southeast Asia's emerging green energy powerhouse, the head of the state's investment agency told Nikkei Asia.
SYDNEY -- Frustrated by surging prices in the Australian housing market, more people across the country are moving into so-called granny flats that share a property with private homes.