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Customers wait in line to use an automated teller machine (ATM) at a Japan Post Co branch in Hachioji. Photograph: Yuriko Nakao/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Painful path to curing Japan of its cash addiction

In early July, the 61-year-old chief executive of 7pay appeared on TV to apologise after the launch of one of Japan’s most hotly-anticipated mobile pa(...)

Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of the Renault-Nissan Alliance in 2017. File photograph: Reuters/Philippe Wojazer
Carlos Ghosn – the man who fell to earth

In October 2016, Carlos Ghosn rented out the Grand Trianon in Versailles for his lavish second wedding. Hired actors in towering wigs and 18th century(...)

An aerial view shows the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Japan’s emissions have soared since Fukushima nuclear disaster
  • Opinion
  • September 21, 2015, 08:04

Japan was once at the front in the fight against climate change. When the climate debate began heating up in the 1990s, the country was one of the low(...)