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Oct 1, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tetsushi Takahashi |Nikkei senior
TOKYO -- Obtaining a residency permit at a local public safety bureau is a rite of passage for foreigners who move to China. In the past, there were always long lines. The process was an agonizing chore that took almost all day.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Ryushiro Kodaira |Nikkei senior
TOKYO -- If Canadian convenience store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard raises capital for its bid to acquire Japanese peer Seven & i Holdings, major shareholder CDPQ "could participate," Charles Emond, the pension fund's CEO, told Nikkei on Tuesday. CDPQ, formally known as Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, owns 3.5% of Couche-Tard.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tsuyoshi Nagasawa |Nikkei senior
TOKYO -- With foreign policy and national security expected to be focuses of Tuesday's presidential debate between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, a former Trump administration defense official argues that the ex-president seeks not isolationism, but alliances that will truly benefit the American people.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Hiroshi Minegishi |Nikkei senior
TOKYO -- As former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris go toe to toe, North Korea is among many countries paying keen attention to the 2024 U.S. presidential election -- but from an unusual standpoint. At a military ceremony on Aug.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tetsushi Takahashi |Nikkei senior
TOKYO -- With U.S. President Joe Biden ending his reelection bid, Chinese leader Xi Jinping might begin shaping his long-term foreign policy with an eye toward former President Donald Trump winning a second term in November. At a campaign rally on Saturday, Trump said he received a "beautiful note" from the Chinese president after being shot in the ear at a July 13 event. China's Foreign Ministry had previously announced that Xi "expressed sympathies" to Trump after the shooting.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Hidemitsu Kibe |Nikkei senior |Kana Watanabe
JERUSELEM -- Israel's Minister of Economy and Industry Nir Barkat told Nikkei that Qatar should "immediately" withdraw from its role as a mediator of cease-fire negotiations with Hamas. Instead, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates should take over as go-betweens, he said during the interview Wednesday in Jerusalem.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | koji nozawa |Nikkei senior
TOKYO -- Businesses from the U.S., Japan and Europe are moving to tap mineral reserves in Central Africa, using the latest technologies to locate critical electric vehicle materials, as China currently dominates development on the continent. The so-called Copperbelt spans across the border of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is one of the world's leading mining regions. Copper and cobalt, also found in the region, are used to make EV batteries.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Kazuyuki Okudaira |Nikkei senior
TOKYO -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and major U.S. venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins are among investors backing a new $300 million fund that targets manufacturing startups, such as chip and robotics makers, amid the trend of supply chain onshoring. Wen Hsieh, a managing partner of Matter Venture Partners, which manages the fund, spoke to Nikkei about investment targets and strategy. Hsieh was a former partner at Kleiner Perkins.
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May 5, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Setsuo Otsuka |Nikkei senior
TOKYO -- How much longer will it take the U.S. to tame inflation? That is the question Japanese authorities must be asking themselves after currency market movements that look like attempts to support the yen. The past three weeks have been packed with exchange rate drama. A test of wills between the market and authorities has unfolded while the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan each faced their own policy challenges.
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May 2, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Hiroshi Minegishi |Nikkei senior
TOKYO -- The stinging defeat suffered by South Korea's ruling conservative People Power Party (PPP) in the April 10 general election says something about the ups and downs of the country's politics. But relations with Japan -- a topic fraught with difficulty -- weren't a factor in this outcome. Go Seon-gyu, a professor at Fukushima College in Japan and an expert in South Korean elections, made a convincing case for the biggest factor behind the loss.
