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Nikkei is Japan's leading business and financial news organization, publisher of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and Nikkei Asia, and owner of the Financial Times.
Nikkei reporters paid 104,000 yen for two nights in a Minato Ward condo missing from the ward's rental list. In the account Seoul Economic Daily relayed, the registered owner and the man paid contradict each other, and Shinjuku's planned ban is drawn by zone.
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NTT Data is in advanced talks to build Anthropic's first dedicated Japan data center in Osaka for up to $6.3 billion. The Nikkei's 500 MW power intake figure would equal half the 1 GW NTT targets for fiscal 2033, if the two measures are counted alike.
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Foreign buyers acquired 326 Japanese companies for 6.2 trillion yen from January to September, more than they spent in all of last year. The yen and a tax change get the credit, but succession sales and corporate carve-outs also feed the supply.
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Korean customs detected 5,030 illegal obesity-drug imports through August, up from four in 2024, as Koreans fly to Japan for cheaper Mounjaro. Korea's visible answer so far is tighter border checks, with no reported cut to clinic prices for the uninsured drug.
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Toshiba has shipped the first nearline hard drives from its expanded Laguna plant in the Philippines and aims to nearly double its capacity by fiscal 2027. Storage buyers planning for that year gain a new source to weigh, but orders due sooner still depend on existing supply.
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Hakone's council approved a 350-yen per-night lodging tax the town may spend on anything, worth about 1.4 billion yen a year. Ministry consent would give Japan's 50-plus lodging-tax towns a way to bill guests for fire, sewer and road costs.
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Osaka Metropolitan University cancelled classes after a suspected ransomware attack stopped about 500 servers, Japanese media reported. Records on at least 130,000 current and former students, faculty and others may be exposed, though the university has not confirmed any theft.
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Japan's Ministry of Finance sold 7.27 trillion yen of retail government bonds in nine months, 291 billion yen short of the record set in 2007. The record looks all but certain, but the sums are small next to household cash and do little for the yields Tokyo pays.
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Kioxia's margin buying balance stands at 848.7 billion yen at cost, according to Nikkei, with the stock at half its June peak. Nikkei's loss estimate puts that book only about 6% under water, so deadline selling pressure falls on those who bought near the top.
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Japanese local governments hold about 180 pacts with Taiwanese counterparts, two-thirds signed after TSMC's move into Japan took shape in fall 2021. Prefectures now pitch Taiwanese chip firms directly, though the record so far holds one reported plant prospect and no disclosed investment figure.
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Nojima will pay graduates who proved themselves as its part-timers a base of up to 438,000 yen a month, 64% above Japan's record average starting pay. The retailer is betting that a year of observed sales work is worth that premium in a hiring market where students still hold the upper hand.
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A pro se plaintiff hid instructions for an AI reviewer in white-on-white type. What caught him was odd whitespace on the page, not any model's refusal to comply.
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The FSA, Ministry of Finance and Bank of Japan want a development plan by early 2027 for real-time settlement of stocks and government bonds. Everything reported so far traces to one Nikkei story.
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Tower Semiconductor and Japan will co-invest $4 billion to reach 45,000 300mm-equivalent wafers a month of optical-connectivity capacity by 2029. Until the new fab lands in 2029, growth comes from adding tools to a fab that already ships.
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Anthropic says Claude led about 26% of its R&D in August and wrote more than 80% of the code merged into its codebase, and a thin prediction market gives its next Opus an 83% chance of shipping by September 24.
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Nomura's count of Japanese listed subsidiaries is 139, down about 20% in a year, and from 2027 companies must disclose how minority shareholders voted on directors. At that pace the category empties in about four years.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put a mutual AI incident notification channel to Chinese officials in Manhattan on Sunday. Beijing has not said yes, and the record's only route to frontier labs is a request that they share threat information.
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Apple's iPhone Duo has pulled a row of Korean and Japanese component makers into the foldable supply chain, and the Toyohashi adhesive plant is the only piece of it carrying both a committed number and a date.
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Cook quadrupled revenue to $416 billion while the market value went up nearly fourteen times. The price Ternus inherits already carries the premium mix JPMorgan expects him to finish on Wednesday.
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The business manager visa now demands 30 million yen of capital, six times the old floor, and 953 foreign operators wound up and left in six months rather than test a renewal grace period that runs to October 2028.
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