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Alex Webb
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2022
Liverpool going on sale highlights soccer¡¯s financial fickleness
Liverpool F.C.¡¯s owners need a sale after more than a decade of ownership that has delivered paltry returns.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2021
Europe is finally hitting Google where it hurts most
Forget the $9 billion of fines that came before. They barely scratched the surface. For Google, this is the big one.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 22, 2021
The antitrust case against Europe¡¯s breakaway soccer league
The latest proposal hews more closely to the American model of sports where the same teams compete and see steady income and higher valuations as a consequence.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2021
Prince Harry fits right in as a Silicon Valley executive
Harry is far from the first royal to trade the palace for the boardroom.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2021
Google should fix the news industry it broke
It¡¯s in the interest of the tech giants to help the news business develop sustainable economic models, as it might ease criticism they face for having destroyed their old business models.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2020
Huawei¡¯s rivals should be happy they¡¯re not American
American tech giants have enjoyed incomparable growth over the past decade. But when it comes to network equipment, there¡¯s an advantage to geopolitical neutrality.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2020
Another internet border has just gone up
Europe blocked the highway for sending data from the region to the U.S. Conduits remain, but it¡¯ll be much easier for tech behemoths to adapt than small startups.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2020
We really weren¡¯t ready to work from home
There¡¯s much more to working remotely than videoconferencing.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 9, 2017
Apple seen eying 2018 iPad revamp to add facial recognition, but OLED screen unlikely
Apple Inc. is working on a redesigned, high-end iPad for as early as 2018 that incorporates key iPhone X features such as slimmer edges and facial recognition, according to people familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 30, 2017
Apple may tweak facial recognition technology to get iPhone X to market
As of early fall, it was clearer than ever that production problems meant Apple Inc. wouldn¡¯t have enough iPhone Xs in time for the holidays. The challenge was how to make the sophisticated phone ¡ª with advanced features such as facial recognition ¡ª in large enough numbers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 22, 2017
Record labels face lower revenues from streaming as Apple moves to renegotiate ties
Apple Inc. is seeking to reduce record labels¡¯ share of revenue from streaming as part of negotiations to revise the iPhone maker¡¯s overall relationship with the music industry, according to people familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Feb 25, 2015
Hitachi trains push into Europe to challenge Siemens, Alstom
Hitachi Ltd.¡¯s agreement to buy the rail signaling business of Italy¡¯s Finmeccanica SpA in its largest overseas purchase ever will boost the company¡¯s European manufacturing base, increasing competition for the train units of Siemens AG and Alstom SA.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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