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TOKYO -- Factory robot maker Fanuc has forecast a drop in annual profit despite revenue growth as U.S. tariffs threaten to raise its prices in a vital market.
TOKYO -- A nine-to-one profit-sharing split trumpeted by the White House in the U.S.-Japan trade deal will apply to only a limited set of Japanese investments in America, according to according to ...
NEW YORK -- The 15% tariff rate on Japanese autos and auto parts agreed in this week's deal between the U.S. and Japan has angered the U.S. auto industry, which still faces a 25% rate on its imports ...
SEOUL -- LG Electronics and Hanmi Semiconductor are preparing to manufacture advanced chipmaking equipment as part of a wider effort to create a homegrown semiconductor supply chain in South Korea.
As a part of the agreement, Japan will review a purchase subsidy that favors fuel cell vehicles over battery-powered electric vehicles, and it will accept American passenger vehicles that meet safety ...
TOKYO -- Japanese shipping company NYK Line has obtained an industry body's approval for a proposed water-based recovery system for rockets, aiming to spend the next two years working on technical ...
PALO ALTO, California -- Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of the company behind the Roomba vacuum robot, is preparing to bring warehouse robots to Japan in a bid to capture demand from companies ...
JAKARTA -- The Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court on Friday sentenced a senior Indonesian opposition politician to three and a half years in prison, its second graft conviction in a week in cases that ...
MANILA -- The Philippine Supreme Court voted unanimously on Friday to void the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte on a technicality, potentially postponing the political feud between her ...
Sanseito, founded in 2020, won 14 seats in Sunday's upper house election on its "Japanese First" platform advocating stricter rules on immigration and foreign capital, along with proposing tax cuts ...
SYDNEY -- Australia and the U.K. said on Friday that they will sign a 50-year bilateral treaty aimed at cementing the existing AUKUS submarine pact with the U.S., sending a clear signal that they ...