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World Cup tests Asia's appetite for costly broadcast rights
14+ hour, 28+ min ago (27+ words) TOKYO/SEOUL -- Asia may be FIFA's biggest audience, but with many games in the upcoming World Cup in North America set to air overnight across much of...
Analysis: Kim Jong Un emerges as winner in summit with Xi Jinping
57+ min ago (27+ words) Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent, and later as China bu...
Japan to help content industry sue over copyright infringement abroad
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (289+ words) TOKYO -- The Japanese government is exploring setting up an organization to handle intellectual property infringement complaints from domestic compani Japan to help content industry sue over copyright infringement abroad Class actions would let cash-strapped rights holders protect their intellectual property…...
NTT sets sights on Nvidia, AI race with $500m optical network fund
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (23+ words) TOKYO -- A fund led by Japanese'telecom leader NTT aims to chase Nvidia in an emerging sector of technology for artificial intelligence data centers -...
US tungsten scrap exports to Japan soar on Chinese curbs
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (22+ words) NEW YORK/HOUSTON, Texas/DALIAN, China -- Japan-bound U. S. shipments of recycled tungsten-- an increasingly important source of the critical industrial...
Anthropic plugs Claude AI in Japan for automated software development
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (151+ words) Nikkei Asia Anthropic plugs Claude AI in Japan for automated software development US startup seeks to cultivate Japanese market to broaden user base TOKYO -- Anthropic invited nearly 500 software engineers to an event in the Japanese capital on Wednesday to promote…...
TDK to buy US maker of AI data center cooling components for up to $400m
3+ hour, 39+ min ago (23+ words) TOKYO -- TDK will spend up to $400 million to acquire American cooling components startup Fabric8 Labs, hoping to tap growing demand from artificial in...
Nippon Life's private credit assets reach $4. 6bn
4+ hour, 28+ min ago (20+ words) TOKYO -- Nippon Life Insurance has invested750 billion yen ($4. 67 billion) in private credit, representing 0. 9% oftotal assets under management, the...
US firms see China as essential despite rising economic and political risks
4+ hour, 28+ min ago (21+ words) WASHINGTON -- American companies are doubling down on China as profitability rebounds, even as the slowing Chinese economy continues to dampen busines...
Japan's Yohei Kono, known for apology to Korean 'comfort women,' dies
4+ hour, 49+ min ago (607+ words) Ex-lower house speaker was dove opposed to constitutional reform TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Former lower house speaker and Foreign Minister Yohei Kono, known for announcing the Japanese government's landmark apology over Korean "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels,…...