🇯🇵 Japón · Consumo, Salud, Empresas
30 noticiasParamount Skydance completes $110bn Warner Bros. Discovery takeover
Paramount Skydance said on October 6 that it has completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in a deal valued at about $110 billion (roughly ¥17 trillion). The combined company will be named Skydance and will hold two Hollywood film…
JR East to start teppay code payment in Mobile Suica on Oct 20, raising limit to ¥300,000
JR East said teppay, a code payment service added to the Mobile Suica app, will start on Oct 20 from 11:00, allowing purchases above Suica e-money's ¥20,000 ceiling and transfers of balance between users. Identity verification with a My Num…
Russia denies plague after worker at Siberian institute dies of unknown pneumonia
A woman who worked at a plague-control research institute in Russia's Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia has died; Japanese outlets differ on whether she died on Oct 1 or Oct 2. Russian authorities say the cause was “pneumonia of unknown cau…
Citizen Medical Lecture wins newspaper association's regional contribution grand prize
The Japan Newspaper Association selected the “Citizen Medical Lecture” run by Nishi-Nippon Shimbun Area Group Kitafukuoka for its 2026 Regional Contribution Grand Prize. Eleven newspaper sales outlets have held the lectures with doctors as …
Nippan admits unit sold Japanese books to US AI firm Anthropic, publishers group told
Nippan Group Holdings has admitted to the Japan Book Publishers Association that a subsidiary sold Japanese books to the US AI developer Anthropic. In a written reply dated Oct 5, the distributor said the sales ran from December 2024 to Dec…
Japan Post Bank to end about 5,400 FamilyMart ATMs from January 2027
Japan Post Bank said on October 6 that it will end operations of roughly 5,400 ATMs at FamilyMart stores, starting in January 2027 and closing them sequentially over about three years. Japan Post Bank cash cards will still work at the Seven…
Japan farm ministry orders Fukui seafood firm over mislabeled Echizen crab gifts
Japan's agriculture ministry issued a measures order on Oct 6 against Fukumaru Foods, a seafood processor in Echizen Town, Fukui Prefecture, for labeling products as Echizen crab while using mizugani, a crab not counted as Echizen crab. The…
La oficina de impuestos de Tokio señala 580 millones de yenes no declarados en la empresa de un miembro de Southern All Stars
La Oficina Regional de Impuestos de Tokio ha señalado ingresos no declarados en Nohohon, una empresa relacionada con la música dirigida por el bajista de Southern All Stars, Kazuyuki Sekiguchi (70). Asahi Shimbun, Nikkei, Sankei y Livedoor …
Fujipan abandons restart of quake-hit Kumamoto bread factory
Fujipan Group said it will not resume production at its Kyushu Fujipan Kumamoto factory in Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture, which has been shut since the 2026 Kumamoto earthquake damaged the building and production equipment. The site will keep op…
Former Yaskawa Electric president Masahiro Ogawa dies at 62
Masahiro Ogawa, former president and vice chairman of Yaskawa Electric, died on Oct. 2 of illness at 62, the company announced on Oct. 5. An engineer who spent most of his career in the industrial robot business and helped open the US marke…
Seven & i dice que las 31 tiendas Seven-Eleven en India cerraron a finales de septiembre
Seven & i Holdings dijo el 5 de octubre que las 31 tiendas Seven-Eleven en India, operadas por el conglomerado local Reliance Retail, cerraron a finales de septiembre. Se espera que el contrato de licencia entre ambos finalice, y Seven & i …
Osaka Prefecture and Google Japan sign five-field cooperation agreement
Osaka Prefecture and Google's Japanese arm signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement on October 6 covering industry promotion, urban development, education, employment and welfare. The deal covers using Google's data and analytics for ad…
Russian woman at plague research institute dies; cause disputed
A woman in her 20s who worked at a plague control research institute in Russia's Irkutsk region died on October 2. Russian health authorities said on October 4 the cause was “pneumonia of unknown origin,” while speculation of plague infecti…
Nidec to discipline about 20 people over accounting fraud in bid to avoid delisting
Nidec plans to discipline officers and employees involved in accounting fraud by the end of this month, with about 20 people expected to be affected, people familiar with the matter said. The motor maker wants to win a proper audit opinion …
Mitsubishi Corp and Japanese partners to exit Yangon Yoma Central project
Myanmar conglomerate Yoma Group announced by October 5 that Mitsubishi Corp and other Japanese investors will withdraw from the Yoma Central mixed-use development in central Yangon. Construction at the site has been suspended since the 2021…
Tamanoi Shuzo lanzará el set de sake dashi-wari Chiikawa Kurimanju el 10 de noviembre
Tamanoi Shuzo lanzará el “Chiikawa Nihonshu to Odashi no Dashi-wari Set”, diseñado en torno al personaje de Chiikawa Kurimanju, el 10 de noviembre, a un precio de 4.400 yenes con impuestos incluidos. Las reservas se abrieron el 5 de octubre…
Nippon Ham reduce en 10 g el peso del envase de Schauessen y mantiene el precio
Nippon Ham dijo que reducirá el contenido de sus emblemáticas salchichas “Schauessen” de 117 gramos a 107 gramos por envase para las entregas a partir del 1 de octubre, dejando sin cambios el precio minorista de referencia de 702 yenes, imp…
La Federación Económica de Chubu elige al asesor de JR Central Tsuge como presidente
La Federación Económica de Chubu anunció el 5 de octubre que el presidente Tetsu Katsuno había dimitido y que ese mismo día eligió al asesor de JR Central Yasuhide Tsuge como su sucesor. Katsuno, asesor especial de Chubu Electric, dimitió p…
Las quiebras por escasez de mano de obra en Japón alcanzan un récord de 240 en el primer semestre
Las quiebras por escasez de mano de obra en Japón totalizaron 240 entre abril y septiembre de 2026, un 17,0% más que un año antes y la cifra más alta para un primer semestre fiscal desde que comenzó la encuesta en 2013, según los informes. …
Musk returns to trillionaire status as SpaceX and Tesla shares rise
Elon Musk's estimated wealth rose back above $1 trillion on October 5 as shares of SpaceX and Tesla gained, according to wealth rankings cited by Japanese outlets. Bloomberg's index put his fortune at $1.04 trillion, up $65 billion on the d…