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MANUFACTURING

Sony Semiconductor Solutions and TSMC are partnering on next-generation image sensors for robots and cars, a person familiar with the plans says.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 10, 2026
Sony and TSMC to invest ?1 trillion in joint chip plant in Japan
The Japanese company¡¯s chip arm Sony Semiconductor Solutions and TSMC are partnering on next-generation image sensors for robots and cars.
A rendering of an ammonia-fueled vessel. Nippon Yusen and other companies aim to complete the world's first ammonia-fueled medium gas carrier for international shipping in November.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Aug 10, 2026
Japan taps public-private funds for shipbuilding, eyeing next-generation vessels
As Japan depends on overseas sources for critical goods such as energy and food, its shipbuilding industry is essential to the country¡¯s economic security.
Employees work on a production line at a garment factory in Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, on July 27.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 10, 2026
Shein finds there¡¯s no place like China after Vietnam experiment disappoints
The ?advantage of having a Vietnamese export base is no longer as large as it used to be.
A worker inspects a solar panel at a factory in Dalton, Georgia, in November 2023.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Aug 8, 2026
Trump¡¯s homegrown solar push risks widening green divide
Trump announced a plan to impose tariffs and minimum prices on imported polysilicon used in semicondictors and solar panels.
Speed is of the essence for Honda in India as it continues to operate with an outdated and thin portfolio, trailing rivals like Maruti Suzuki India and Toyota.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2026
Honda outsources new vehicle program to Tata Technologies to cut costs
The farming out of this function marks a departure for Honda, which has typically kept development of core vehicle platforms largely in-house or within its supplier network.
U.S. solar manufacturing has expanded since Congress created tax incentives in 2022.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 5, 2026
U.S. weighs polysilicon tariffs to counter China in solar and chips
The decision, expected to come later this month, aims to protect U.S. polysilicon factories from growing Chinese ambitions in the chip supply chain.
Sony¡¯s Kumamoto Technology Center (center right) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.¡¯s Kumamoto Plant (center left) in Kikuyo town, Kumamoto Prefecture, on July 29
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 5, 2026
Chip plants begin restarting operations in quake-hit Kumamoto
The quick recovery comes as damage was relatively limited compared with that from the two successive major earthquakes that hit the prefecture about 10 years ago.
Roads damaged by last week's massive quake are left untouched in Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Monday. Plant suspensions at automakers in Kyushu continue as parts supply remains disrupted.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 3, 2026
Automakers extend plant suspensions after Kumamoto quake
The Kyushu region accounts for nearly 15% of domestic auto production, according to the government¡¯s Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry.
A CXMT factory on the outskirts of Beijing. China's leading memory chipmaker soared 470% in its market debut in Shanghai on July 27.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2026
AI boomtowns worsen divide in China¡¯s split-screen economy
In Hefei, the heart of China¡¯s memory-chip industry, factories can barely keep up with the world¡¯s appetite for AI hardware. In Changchun, the rust-belt home of gasoline-powered carmaking, officials admitted to ¡°unprecedented¡± difficulties ¡ª a phrase later removed after drawing social media attention....
Production at Ningbo Bright Electric in Ninghai, China, on July 2. One of the most surprising outcomes from a whiplash year of tariffs may be that China has emerged in a position of relative strength, with significantly lower tariffs than last year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 30, 2026
Trump¡¯s tariffs are sending some companies back to China
One of the most surprising outcomes from a whiplash year of tariffs may be that China has emerged in a position of relative strength, with lower tariffs than last year.
A fresh grocery vendor at the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem in January 2025. Since the Hamas attacks in October 2023, Israel has been in a state of near constant war ¡ª in Gaza, in Lebanon and most recently against Iran.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 28, 2026
Ongoing conflict starves Israeli manufacturers of foreign equipment technicians
Makers are increasingly stuck with imported machinery that has stopped functioning or can¡¯t be installed, without the foreign skilled staff needed to assist.
Newly assembled Toyota vehicles in Tijuana, Mexico, in 2017
BUSINESS
Jul 20, 2026
One year on, Trump tariffs continue battering Japan automakers
In fiscal 2025, which ended in March this year, combined costs from the Trump tariffs at six major Japanese automakers, including industry leader Toyota, exceeded ?2.4 trillion.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting Japan this week to drum up more business and excitement around the potential of artificial intelligence.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 16, 2026
Nvidia expands Toyota AI partnership for smart cities and factories
Extending the reach of AI beyond the data center and integrating it directly into devices and machines is an industrywide focus this year.
Men look for daily gigs in Kunshan, the heart of China¡¯s manufacturing industry, in May.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2026
¡®They don¡¯t need people¡¯: the workers left behind by China¡¯s robot drive
Tens of millions of workers may fall by the wayside as the country pivots away from low-end manufacturing toward advanced technology, from automation to AI.
Smoke billows as a fire burns at a shoe factory in Jiangtou, in the city ?of Jinjiang in China's Fujian province, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 10, 2026
Shoe factory fire in southeastern China leaves at least 28 dead: state media
Chinese President Xi Jinping issued instructions urging an all-out rescue effort and called on ?authorities to hold those responsible strictly accountable.
Workers package and cube pallet bricks for shipping at Belden Brick in Sugarcreek, Ohio, in November 2025.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 8, 2026
U.S. Rust Belt factories get shock as Big Tech data centers drive up power bills
Factory electricity bills, a core expense, are rising faster than for many homes and other businesses, a review of U.S. energy data shows.
A newly assembled Toyota Tacoma pickup truck moves through final inspection on the assembly line at the company's manufacturing facility in San Antonio, Texas.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 7, 2026
Toyota to shift production of truck from Mexico plant to Texas
The carmaker will build a second production line in San Antonio, where it currently makes full-size pickups and SUVs, and add some 2,000 new jobs by 2030.
Micron Technology¡¯s factory in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 4, 2026
Micron breaks ground on $9 billion western Japan plant expansion
The U.S. company is building the facility to make chips such as high-bandwidth memory crucial for AI processors.
China's trade surplus used to be absorbed largely by the central bank and channeled into official reserves. It is now being redeployed by private actors in search of yield.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2026
Where is China¡¯s trillion-dollar trade surplus going?
This growing role of private actors in deploying China¡¯s trade surplus reflects financial deepening and underscores the expanding role of markets in the economy.
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. Confidence among large manufacturers rose to the highest level since 2018, supporting the BOJ¡¯s stance to keep raising interest rates.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 1, 2026
Â鶹´«Ã½ manufacturer mood improves to highest level since 2018
Inflation expectations climbed, supporting the Bank of Â鶹´«Ã½ stance to keep raising interest rates.
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.
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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.
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