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Pepsi on Wednesday pulled an ad after it was widely mocked and criticized for appearing to trivialize protests for social justice causes. “Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding,” the company said. “Clearly we missed the mark, and we apologize.” It said it was ...

Economic ministers from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are expected to work to bolster cooperation against protectionism and to promote free trade at a meeting in Osaka on Saturday. ASEAN’s ministers arrived on Thursday to kick off a three-day visit. At the Osaka conference, the 10 ASEAN ...

Seven & I Holdings Co., the world’s largest convenience store operator, agreed to acquire Sunoco LP retail shops and gasoline businesses for $3.3 billion (about ¥365.9 billion) in a record deal for the Japanese company as it seeks to expand in the U.S. The deal will add 1,108 gas stations ...

With forestry workers growing older, Oita Prefecture has embarked on a “smart forestry” initiative to reduce workloads, partly through the use of drones. Forests cover 72 percent of the prefecture, with most of them cultivated plantations. Despite the use of mechanization for cutting down trees, planting still involves hard physical ...

The benchmark Nikkei average turned sharply lower to hit a four-month closing low on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, reflecting U.S. equities’ fallback overnight. The 225-issue Nikkei average tumbled 264.21 points, or 1.40 percent, to close at 18,597.06, its lowest finish since Dec. 7 last year. On Wednesday, the key ...

Toyota Motor Corp.’s Prius hybrid was the best-selling car in Japan in fiscal 2016, topping the sales list for the first time in five years, data released by industry groups showed Thursday. For the year through March 31, the Prius sold 225,066 units, up 44.3 percent from a year earlier, ...

Sharp Corp. plans to nearly double the number of employees at its mainstay Kameyema factory in Mie Prefecture that makes camera parts for smartphones, a senior company official said Thursday. Sharp, restructuring under the ownership of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn, will raise the number ...

Hitachi Ltd. said it has applied for a site license to construct and operate nuclear power plants in Britain, aiming to start operations from the first half of the 2020s. Horizon Nuclear Power Ltd., Hitachi’s British nuclear unit which was purchased from a major German utility in 2012, will oversee ...

The world’s biggest pension may find that when it comes to returns on its $1.3 trillion in assets, Donald Trump giveth and taketh away. What started as a rally in stocks on his presidential victory five months ago turned into a slump this year, making it harder for Japan’s Government ...

As job openings outnumber job-seekers in Japan, graduates looking for employment have an upper hand. As a result, more firms are trying to woo their parents through seminars and home visits to get ahead of rivals. While students are keen to respect their parents’ opinions when selecting a company, parents ...