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27 noticiasJR 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…
Paramount 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…
Hisatsu Orange Railway to resume full service Oct. 13 after Kumamoto quake
Hisatsu Orange Railway said on Oct. 6 that it will run trains across its whole line from the first service on Oct. 13, reopening the Yatsushiro–Higo Tanoura section in Kumamoto Prefecture that the July earthquake forced it to close. Replace…
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…
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…
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 …
Agencia policial de Japón: el 25,8 % de los controladores de señales supera el estándar de renovación, el peor dato registrado
La Agencia Nacional de Policía informó que el 25,8 % de los 203.251 controladores de señales de Japón —52.357 unidades— habían superado el estándar de renovación de 19 años en el año fiscal 2025, la peor proporción registrada. El comisionad…
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…
Hisatsu Orange Railway to fully reopen on Oct 13 after July quake suspensions
Hisatsu Orange Railway, a third-sector line linking Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures, said it will resume service on the Yatsushiro–Higo-Tanoura section on Oct 13, restoring the full Yatsushiro–Sendai route about two and a half months aft…
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…
El presidente de Tokai Kisen dimitirá tras violaciones relacionadas con el alcohol y una orden de suspensión de buques
Tokai Kisen, que opera buques de pasajeros entre Tokio y las islas Izu, anunció el 5 de octubre que su presidente, Junichi Yamasaki, dimitirá el 31 de octubre y pasará a ser asesor, después de que el Gobierno ordenara la suspensión de algun…
Reabre la pista del aeropuerto de Komatsu tras un cierre forzado por una grieta
El aeropuerto de Komatsu, en la prefectura de Ishikawa, cerró su pista en la mañana del 5 de octubre después de que se encontrara una grieta de unos 40 centímetros por 40 centímetros y 4 centímetros de profundidad en el asfalto, y la reabri…
Seven-Eleven Japan to launch Butter States Sandwich Ice nationwide on October 13
Seven-Eleven Japan will release a limited-quantity “Butter States Sandwich Ice” at stores nationwide from October 13, priced at 257.04 yen. The sandwich ice is modelled on the Butter States Cookie sold at Seven Cafe, which the documents say…