A saver with 100 million yen was told unused assets score zero in Japan's marriage agencies. The 4 percent rule, IBJ data, and Japanese Reactions on X.
Apple announced the iPhone Duo on September 9, 2026, priced from $1,999. Foldables are still about 2 percent of smartphone shipments. What Apple's entry changes, what it does not, and Japanese Reactions.
Tesla's Cybercab tours Japan from September 11. Driverless taxis are already legal, so why are there none? Three approvals, remaining costs and Japanese Reactions.
GPT-6 Astra is reaching paying users, but has it achieved AGI? Benchmarks, first impressions and Japanese Reactions reveal why the answer remains disputed.
Masami Kurumada, the creator of Saint Seiya, and three of his companies filed suit at the Tokyo District Court on September 2, 2026, alleging that about 4.686 billion yen, roughly 30 million dollars, flowed out to a former manager and associates over six years. According to the plaintiffs, the losses were found not by an internal check but by a tax inquiry. This article explains how manga rights are normally routed through publishers in Japan, why the author-owned model gave one person both the money and the information, and adds Japanese Reactions from X. No court has ruled on any of the allegations.
Shein listed in Hong Kong on September 1, 2026 at a market capitalisation of about $26.5 billion, roughly a quarter of the $98.2 billion it was assigned in a 2022 private round. This article explains why the company listed anyway, what the de minimis rule changes in the United States, the EU, France and now Japan did to its model, and adds Japanese Reactions from X, where the conversation fixed almost entirely on the size of the fall.
A humanoid robot called Tiangong Ultra won the 100-metre final in 8.64 seconds in Beijing on August 26, 2026, beating Usain Bolt's world record on the clock. A day earlier it had failed to stop after its semi-final run and caught fire. The threshold that actually matters is not human-like movement but the day a robot works cheaper than a hired worker, and Japanese reactions to the games show a country watching its own former lead from the stands.
A Shenzhen court sentenced Evergrande founder Hui Ka-yan to life in prison on August 20, 2026. This analysis explains how land finance and presale money built the company, compares the circuit with Japan's 1980s land bubble and the 1990 lending curbs, and includes Japanese reactions on X.
Japanese reactions and analysis: SK Hynix is reported to be weighing a memory fab in Miyagi, on land prepared for a chip plant that PSMC abandoned in 2024. Japan's ten-year production clause is the real test of whether it happens.
Merck and Moderna say their individualized mRNA cancer vaccine met its endpoints in a Phase 3 melanoma trial, and Moderna's stock closed up 177 percent. What the therapy is, why decades of cancer vaccines failed before it, and Japanese reactions on X to the news.