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Honda has halted production at its Mexico plant due to a semiconductor shortage caused by supply disruptions from Netherlands-headquartered Chinese chipmaker Nexperia, officials said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2025
Honda halts production at Mexico plant amid chip shortage
The Japanese automaker is making arrangements to resume operations, but the timeline for that remains unclear.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during an event in Washington on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 30, 2025
Nvidia becomes first $5 trillion firm as AI rally picks up steam
Nvidia has become the most-important stock in a bull market that’s been driven by optimism for AI to revolutionize the global economy.
Tareq Amin, CEO of Saudi Arabian artificial intelligence startup Humain, attends the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh on May 13.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 29, 2025
Saudi AI chief vows to avoid Huawei tech in bid for U.S. chips
Tareq Amin, the head of Saudi Arabia’s artificial intelligence startup Humain, is confident the U.S. will clear the sale of advanced chips to the kingdom.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Washington on Tuesday
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 29, 2025
Nvidia will build AI supercomputers for U.S. Energy Department
In Washington, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang walked a fine line between praising U.S. President Donald Trump and risking further antagonism of China.
Unitree robot dogs climb a flight of stairs during a demonstration in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on March 21.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2025
Robot dogs and AI drone swarms: How China could use DeepSeek for war
A review of research papers, patents and procurement records gives a snapshot of Beijing’s systematic effort to harness artificial intelligence for military advantage.
The U.S. government is partnering with Advanced Micro Devices to build two supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from nuclear power to cancer treatments to national security.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 28, 2025
U.S. Department of Energy forms $1B supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD
The U.S. is building two supercomputers to run increasingly complex experiments that require harnessing enormous amounts of data-crunching capability.
Solar panels at the Baofeng Agriculture-Photovoltaic Integration Industrial Base near Yinchuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 27, 2025
China’s solar self-discipline spurs turnaround at silicon makers
The recovery saw a 50% surge in polysilicon prices after Beijing began lambasting cutthroat atmosphere in tech sectors such as solar.
A wafer fab owned by Nexperia. The Dutch chipmaker has warned Japanese auto parts makers about a potential supply shortage.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 23, 2025
Nexperia warns Japanese automakers of uncertain chip supply
The Dutch government seized control of Nijmegen-based Nexperia earlier this month in an unprecedented step intended to secure European access to the components made by the company.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025
Hopes for Xi-Trump summit dampened by tough Beijing moves and rising tension
Even if the talks get back on track, experts say a narrow deal on a few issues is the most likely outcome.
Japan's exports gained 4.2% in September from a year earlier, with analysts noting the strong euro and China’s domestic demand-stimulating policies benefiting the country.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 22, 2025
Japan’s exports advance for first time since April on chips
Exports rose for the first time in five months as shipments of chips and electronic parts advanced, while goods destined for the U.S. continued to decline.
Silicon semiconductor wafers pass through a wet chemical cleaning machine at a Nexperia plant. The company is the latest to be caught in an escalating global trade spat leading up to China’s high-stakes talks with the United States.
BUSINESS
Oct 17, 2025
Carmakers push to secure chips as China trade spat escalates
While Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump are to meet this month to hammer out a trade accord, both sides announced restrictions that have raised tensions.
People walk past a large electronic screen showing the Samsung logo at a train station in Seoul on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 14, 2025
Samsung rides global AI boom to its biggest profit since 2022
South Korea’s largest company reported an operating profit of 12.1 trillion won in the September quarter, according to a preliminary earnings report.
A worker waters the site of a rare earth metals mine in Nancheng county, in China's Jiangxi province, in January 2011.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2025
The world’s chip supply chain is bracing for fallout from China’s rare-earth curbs
The restrictions represent the first major attempt by Beijing to exercise long-arm jurisdiction over foreign companies to target the semiconductor industry.
A mine for heavy rare earth metals outside of Longnan in south-central China's Jiangxi province
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2025
China expands rare earths restrictions, targeting defense and chips users
The new curbs come ahead of a scheduled face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea at the end of October.
Resonac President and CEO Hidehito Takahashi (front row, third from left) in Tokyo on Sept. 3 along with officials from companies participating in a joint framework to develop chipmaking equipment
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2025
Japanese chemical firms seeking partnerships over next-gen chips
Companies are taking measures with others, such as setting up a joint framework, to speed up the development of related materials
Elon Musk’s xAI, which raised about $10 billion of corporate equity and debt earlier this year, still needs billions more given the company has been burning through $1 billion per month.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 8, 2025
Nvidia to invest in Musk’s xAI as part of $20 billion funding
The massive capital raise is just the latest for the AI industry, which has seen major tech companies invest to build the infrastructure necessary to develop top AI models.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks in Washington in July.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2025
OpenAI signs multibillion dollar chip deal with AMD
The ChatGPT-maker is pushing ahead with an investment spree to secure massive amounts of computing power.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Oct 6, 2025
Competition heats up to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance
Nvidia now boasts the world’s highest revenue, driven by sales of its GPUs — the processors that are key to building the technology behind ChatGPT and its rivals.
Mitsubishi Electric's new semiconductor plant in Kikuchi, Kumamoto Prefecture
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 2, 2025
Mitsubishi Electric completes semiconductor facility in Kumamoto Prefecture
The new facility in Kikuchi, Kumamoto Prefecture, will start operations in November, with mass production targeted for 2027.
Taiwan has pushed back against a U.S. proposal to move chip production stateside to cover half of America’s demand.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 1, 2025
Taiwan rejects U.S. demand for half of its chips to be made in America
Taiwanese Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said Taipei has never made such a commitment.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Osaka trumps Tokyo as both ranked among world’s top 10 most livable cities
Osaka’s infrastructure earned higher marks than Tokyo’s in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Global Liveability Index.
Japanese teen arrested for booting users off streaming service
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly creating a malicious program and canceling subscription accounts on the Bandai Channel.
Japanese payment processor’s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Long-stalled maglev line finally gets green light from Shizuoka Prefecture
Environmental concerns relating to the construction of Central Japan Railway’s high-speed maglev line had contributed to years of delays for the project.
The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix’s “Human Vapor,” says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
Japanese nail salons are tourists’ new obsession
Tourists in Japan have always been interested in quintessentially Japanese approaches to modern culture, and, increasingly, visits to nail salons have become the new hot thing.

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