Japan

The Bank of Japan is widely expected to abandon the world’s last negative interest rate in the coming weeks, marking the final act of the wonderful global experiment with unorthodox policies.

Data from Japan and South Korea show that Covid-19 increases the incidence of autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

OSAKA – Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturer Shionogi hopes to be able to sell its COVID-19 drug Xocova in the U. S. It will open in the U. S. in early 2025, as part of an overseas expansion strategy.

Seniors and others in Japan who will be eligible to receive state-subsidized coronavirus vaccines in April will have to pay up to 7,000 yen, or about $47, per dose.

We are halfway through the largest purge ever conducted through Medicaid, and medical debt is now the largest source of bankruptcies.

The Japanese government needs to scrap its current overseas internship program, which has been criticized as an excuse to import reasonable labor, and update it with a formula it says will be real. . .

Taking Taiwan to the world and the world in Taiwan

A year after the lifting of restrictions, the government is struggling to cope with millions of visitors, especially those who do not respect the local environment and customs.

Culp tells Fortune he turned down the job twice, and explains how he unleashed a transformation that powered the stock up 96% last year, besting Apple and Google.

A delegation of around 200 Japanese business leaders and CEOs returned to China this week for their first stop since 2019, as they sought to establish economic ties in the face of geopolitical headwinds that have strained bilateral relations. The Japanese economic delegations had stopped in China with each other. every year since 1975, but the stopovers ended in the COVID-19 era, when China largely closed its borders due to its strict pandemic policy. On Thursday, delegates from the tough Keidanren, as the Japan Enterprise Federation is known, and the Japan-China Economic Association met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the Great Hall of the People.