Japan's JERA to buy US shale gas assets for $1.5 billion, eyes output increase

JERA, Japan's top power generator, on Thursday said it will buy natural gas production assets in the U.S. for $1.5 billion, ...

Japan's JERA to buy US shale gas assets for $1.5 bln, eyes output increase

JERA, Japan's top power generator, on Thursday said it will buy natural gas production assets in the U.S. for $1.5 billion, ...

Japan has its own Iron Lady

Few would have predicted that Japan would beat its longtime ally the United States in the race to elect the first female ...
The Purdue Exponent

Rare woman yakuza on path to redemption in Japan

A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura's criminal past as one of Japan's few women yakuza. But after clawing her ...

Schauffele wins in Japan, the country where his mother grew up and where he has many connections

Schauffele has maternal grandparents living in Japan and his mother has roots in Taiwan and grew up in Japan. His mother-in-law is also Japanese, and his wife is half Japanese and grew up in Japan's ...

The new leader of Japan’s ruling party, poised to be first female prime minister, faces challenges

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a ...
Seattle Times

The woman poised to be Japan’s first female prime minister faces challenges

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party has a new leader: former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative who is poised to become the country’s first female prime ...
CNN

Japan’s ruling party is in crisis as voters swing to right-wing rivals. Can a new leader save it?

Japan’s ruling party is in trouble, and it knows it. The country is rife with political instability, having cycled through four prime ministers in the last five years – all members of the Liberal ...
VG Chartz

PS5 vs PS4 Sales Comparison in Japan - August 2025 - Sales

The VGChartz sales comparison series of articles are updated monthly and each one focuses on a different sales comparison using our estimated video game hardware figures. The charts include ...
gematsu

Japanese-style visual novel Nagi no Koi coming to PS4, Switch in spring 2026 in Japan

Entergram will release Nutrients-developed Japanese-style visual novel Nagi no Koi digitally for PlayStation 4 and Switch in spring 2026 in Japan for 2,700 yen, the publisher announced. Nagi no Koi ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Paul Schrader’s ‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’ to Finally Screen in Japan After 40-Year De Facto Ban

After decades of political sensitivities and threats kept it from screens, Schrader’s Yukio Mishima biopic, considered by many his masterpiece, will finally play for Japanese audiences. By Patrick ...
Town & Country

Princess Incognito: How Former Japanese Royal Mako Komuro Escaped It All

The woman in the produce section of the Hell’s Kitchen grocery store is clad casually, to say the least, in T-shirt and sneakers, a shopping bag slung over her shoulder. Is it her? Or is she the one ...