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TOKYO -- Japan's JR East looks to roll out an autonomous train-operating system by 2035 on its Yamanote line, which loops around the heart of Tokyo, with plans to bring similar systems to shinkansen bullet trains around the same time. [1]

TOKYO -- A shogi (Japanese chess)-playing robot developed by auto parts maker Denso will make its debut in this year's shogi master-versus-machine series. [2]

InterviewNew Tokyo Stock Exchange chief all in for ESG but wary of SPAC boom 'Japan cannot be left out' as global exchanges compete for investment, says Yamaji Hiromi Yamaji became the new president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 1. [3]

Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California. [4]

YANGON — The Yangon regional Parliament approved the new municipal law on Wednesday, successfully barring the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) from engaging in business. [5]

TOKYO -- YKK announced that Executive Vice President Hiroaki Otani will become president April 1. He will take the helm of the world's leading zipper maker just as it embarks on a new four-year business plan. [6]

TOKYO -- Yamato Transport will bring together top officials and union representatives starting next month to hash out specific labor reform measures, aiming to boost recruitment as a shortage of workers stretches current employees thin. [7]

TOKYO - When Takanori Kuzuoka began climbing the criminal career ladder, he didn't fancy joining Japan's old-school yakuza, with their tattoos, rigid hierarchy and codes of honour. [8]

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[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-09-10 · 31% match

Tokyo's busy Yamanote loop line to go driverless by 2035

TOKYO -- Japan's JR East looks to roll out an autonomous train-operating system by 2035 on its Yamanote line, which loops around the heart of Tokyo, with plans to bring similar systems to shinkansen bullet trains around the same time.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2014-03-14 · 37% match

Denso's shogi-playing robot to match wits with masters

TOKYO -- A shogi (Japanese chess)-playing robot developed by auto parts maker Denso will make its debut in this year's shogi master-versus-machine series.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2021-04-09 · 36% match

New Tokyo Stock Exchange chief all in for ESG but wary of SPAC boom

InterviewNew Tokyo Stock Exchange chief all in for ESG but wary of SPAC boom 'Japan cannot be left out' as global exchanges compete for investment, says Yamaji Hiromi Yamaji became the new president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 1.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-07-06 · 35% match

Yoon Suk-yeol is Biden's perfect South Korea partner

Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California.

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2018-06-28 · 35% match

Yangon Parliament Approves New Municipal Law

YANGON — The Yangon regional Parliament approved the new municipal law on Wednesday, successfully barring the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) from engaging in business.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2016-12-26 · 35% match

Japanese fastener giant YKK names new president

TOKYO -- YKK announced that Executive Vice President Hiroaki Otani will become president April 1. He will take the helm of the world's leading zipper maker just as it embarks on a new four-year business plan.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-03-25 · 35% match

Yamato execs, labor joining forces on workplace reform

TOKYO -- Yamato Transport will bring together top officials and union representatives starting next month to hash out specific labor reform measures, aiming to boost recruitment as a shortage of workers stretches current employees thin.

[8] TH bangkokpost.com · 2023-07-03 · 34% match

Upstart gangsters shake Japan's yakuza

TOKYO - When Takanori Kuzuoka began climbing the criminal career ladder, he didn't fancy joining Japan's old-school yakuza, with their tattoos, rigid hierarchy and codes of honour.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2014-02-11 · 34% match

Stem cell pioneer Yamanaka looking to support STAP research

OSAKA -- Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka, who earned a Nobel Prize for discovering induced pluripotent stem cells, has offered to lend his full support to the Japanese team that has found a simpler way to develop stem cells.

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-10-06 · 34% match

Robots driving Yaskawa Electric toward record profit

TOKYO -- Yaskawa Electric looks poised to surpass its operating profit forecast for the current year through February, thanks largely to strong Chinese demand for industrial robots.

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