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TOKYO -- Japan must improve access to contraception and abortion to boost economic productivity and tackle its aging population, the head of the world's largest NGO for sexual and reproductive health and rights told Nikkei Asia.
TOKYO -- How much longer will it take the U.S. to tame inflation? That is the question Japanese authorities must be asking themselves after currency market movements that look like attempts to support the yen.
TOKYO -- Countries across Asia are on guard for more severe heat and rain as experts highlight the region's disaster-prone and fast-warming characteristics along with a "cocktail" of health hazards looming over workers in the face of climate change.
The windows are boarded up, the paint is peeling and the garden is hopelessly overgrown. This single-storey property in the upmarket Negishi district of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, should be ripe for redevelopment – but has instead been left to gently decay for more than a decade.
TOKYO -- Japan is grappling with its decarbonization goals as the rapid growth of data centers is raising demand for power. The issue looms for both Japan, as it works to update its basic energy policy by March 2025, as well as for South Korea and Southeast Asia, where the market for data centers is also growing.
TOKYO/HOUSTON -- Investors who have flocked to semiconductor stocks on the back of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) boom are starting to buy shares linked to nuclear power generation and its primary fuel uranium.
TOKYO -- Revelers in Myanmar celebrate the traditional New Year in mid-April by splashing water on each other to cool off and cleanse themselves of the sins of the old year. But the festive mood seemed subdued this year, overshadowed by the enforcement of a conscription law by the military regime under the leadership of Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing.
On a busy afternoon in Tokyo’s Asakusa district, a tour guide leads a small group to a pavement outside a branch of clothing chain Uniqlo, where he produces a tape recorder.