Press review: January 2025
27-01-2025
In this section you will find this month's press review, which contains a selection of some of the most interesting Japan-related online articles that have been published over the past month. To read them, please click on the following links:
- The Japan News – New Energy Plan Reflects Fear of Reduced Competitiveness; Japan Concerned About Exclusion From Supply Chains
- The Mainichi - Japan drops mantra of reducing nuclear dependency in new draft plan
- The Asahi Shimbun - Japan seeks more investment with nuclear power revival
- The Japan News – ‘Maximum Use’ of Nuclear Power Eyed in Revised Energy Plan; Japan Seeks Decarbonization, Stable Supply of Enough Energy
- The Japan Times - Japan's draft climate strategy spurs calls for bolder cuts in carbon emissions
- The Japan Times - Japan business failures top 10,000 in 2024, worst in 11 years
- The Japan News – Expectations High for Freight-Only Shinkansen Trains; Some Players Express Concerns
- The Japan Times - Prices of 1,380 food items set to rise in Japan in January
- The Japan Times - Japan to step up efforts to increase food exports
- The Japan Times - Survey finds 80% of people want to take leftover restaurant food home
- The Japan News – Japan’s Beer, Quasi-Beer Sales Fall 3% in 2024
- The Japan Times - Japan sales of foreign-brand vehicles fall 8.5% in 2024
- The Japan News – Japan’s Financial Services Agency Begins Considering Tougher Regulations on Cryptocurrencies; Regulations May Lower Taxes
- The Asahi Shimbun - Japan investors use tax-free program to tap overseas growth
- The Japan Times - Japanese electronics firms rethink uniform starting salaries
- The Japan Times - 8.4% of Japanese companies led by women in 2024
- NHK - Japan scores high in OECD survey of adult skills
- The Mainichi - ChatGPT preferred over in-person lessons as language learning method among young Japanese
- The Japan Times - Japanese firms begin adopting generative AI for information searches
- The Japan Times - Japan earmarks extra ¥1.5 trillion for chips and AI this year
- The Asahi Shimbun - Government to name and shame AI misusers; no criminal charges
- The Mainichi - Map apps more popular than phone calls among smartphone users in Japan: survey
- The Japan News – Foreign Visitors to Japan Spend Over ¥8 tril. for 1st Time; Thanks to Weak Yen, More Visitors from West
- NHK - Number of foreign visitors to Japan surpasses previous annual record in 2019
- The Japan Times - Hokkaido areas examine benefits of taxing tourists
- The Asahi Shimbun - 68% of Japanese see record high foreign visitors as a positive
- The Japan Times - Record 78% of people in Japan feel anxious, government survey finds
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