JAPAN

Abe and Xi start new era of cooperation

Beijing – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Monday to step up cooperation for a …

Japan has world’s best passport

TOKYO — The Japanese passport was again named as the “world’s most powerful” by a British consultancy this year, but …

Panasonic selling chip-making biz to Taiwan

Osaka/Taipei — Panasonic is selling its loss-making semiconductor business to Taiwan’s Nuvoton Technology, leaving an industry that it first entered almost …

India: SoftBank’s next big crisis ?

New Delhi — In India, tech startups have been caught in SoftBank’s cycle of overfunding, bloated valuations and vague paths …

Japan: Lowest birth rate in 30 years

Tokyo – Japanese births are on pace for the steepest drop in three decades despite earlier hopes that couples would …