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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged business leaders Thursday to push for fundamental reform of working conditions to limit long working hours and promote equal treatment of workers regardless of their employment status. “This year will be the year to implement bold working style reforms,” Abe said at a New Year’s ...

The dollar took a dive below ¥116 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, hit hard by position-adjustment selling ahead of Friday’s release of key U.S. jobs data for December. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥115.95-95, down from ¥117.98-99 at the same time on Wednesday. The euro was at $1.0559-0559, ...

Tesla Motors Inc. said Wednesday that mass production of lithium-ion battery cells along with Panasonic Corp. has begun at a plant being jointly built by the two companies outside Reno, Nevada. The Gigafactory is expected to be a major foothold for Panasonic to expand production of battery cells for electric ...

Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled a concept car with built-in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology designed to interact with the driver. The Wednesday unveiling of the Concept-i, which the automaker says can read its driver’s personality and emotions, came ahead of the opening Thursday of the Consumer Electronics Show, ...

It’s been a while since a new TV raised any eyebrows, but Sony Corp. has just unveiled a new product that’s creating a bit of buzz at the annual Consumer Electronics Show industry gathering in Las Vegas. Sony’s XBR-A1E Bravia 4K is the electronics maker’s first commercial foray into the ...

The benchmark Nikkei average fell back moderately on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, dragged down by selling to lock gains. The 225-issue Nikkei average fell 73.47 points, or 0.37 percent, to end at 19,520.69. On Wednesday, the first trading day of 2017, the key market gauge jumped 479.79 points. ...

Beatrice, a busy 50-year-old manager at an airline in Paris, sounds like she would benefit from France’s new “right to disconnect” law that guarantees all employees freedom from their work smartphone and email. “It often happens that I’m interrupted by urgent problems in my free time, or need to reply ...

Apple Inc. is planning to invest $1 billion (about ¥117 billion) in SoftBank Group Corp.’s giant new technology fund, adding its name to a growing list of interested parties and giving the iPhone maker a new avenue to tap up-and-coming technologies. Qualcomm Inc. also said it will participate in the ...

The U.S. Labor Department is trying to bar Google from doing business with the federal government unless the internet company turns over confidential information about thousands of its employees. The potential banishment is being sought in a Labor Department lawsuit filed Wednesday with the Office of Administrative Law Judges. The ...

Ford Motor Company’s cancellation of plans to build a $1.6 billion auto manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosi has sounded alarms throughout Mexico. Even as the country is being rocked by rowdy nationwide protests against a Jan. 1 gasoline price hike, the Ford news led the front pages of Mexico’s ...