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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. will this fall launch a company to farm rice, officials said Wednesday. It will be Japan’s first major bank to enter the agricultural sector. The banking unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. aims to improve agricultural productivity and expand market channels by utilizing its funds ...

Stocks turned higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, buoyed by buybacks after their recent fall. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 60.58 points, or 0.38 percent, to close at 15,919.58. On Tuesday, the key market gauge lost 160.18 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues finished up 5.18 points, ...

About 27 percent of electric fan users in Japan have experienced defects including funny noises, a government online survey found. The survey by the Consumer Affairs Agency was conducted in response to a series of fires attributed to aging fans. The agency is urging people to stop using their fans ...

The firm reveals it used improper fuel economy data on more than 10 models that are no longer being sold. The post Mitsubishi Motors used improper fuel economy data on over 10 older models: sources appeared first on The Japan Times.

Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. has begun offering a type of insurance intended to ease the concern of hot spring operators about the impact of new geothermal power stations. Developers of geothermal power projects can now buy an insurance policy that covers the expense for surveys to determine ...

The Japan Tourism Agency on Wednesday ordered JTB Corp. to file a report and take preventive measures by June 24 after the major travel agency said it fears personal information on 7.93 million people has been leaked through unauthorized access to its server. The information includes customer names, addresses, email ...

After the mega-deal for LinkedIn, Twitter’s future has come into focus as the industry ponders the outlook for social networks. Microsoft’s $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn announced Monday, the biggest-ever deal for a social media company, sent Twitter shares surging nearly 10 percent over the past two days. Even though ...

After Larossi Abballa killed a French police commander and the commander’s partner on Tuesday, he took to Facebook Live to encourage viewers in a 12-minute video to follow his example: Kill prison staff, police officials, journalists, lawmakers. The incident underscores the immense challenges companies such as Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc ...

Japanese clothing chain Uniqlo has leveraged its prowess in mass production to build a fashion empire filled with shelves upon shelves of affordable, good quality items like down jackets, underwear and T-shirts. Now the 17-nation, 1,734-store retailer is on a quest to beat Western giants like Gap, H&M and Zara ...

The rapid spread of internet services has accelerated the shortage of information technology engineers, prompting IT companies to conduct in-house reforms to lower turnover and outsource orders to overseas firms. ISA Plan Inc., a contract systems developer, introduced a system in fiscal 2010 under which employees choose leaders from among ...