TOKYO -- Nissan Motor on Tuesday raised its full-year net profit forecast through March 2022 to 180 billion yen ($1.59 billion), as newly launched models are expected to give the automaker a boost amid robust global auto demand despite the recent chip crunch.

TOKYO -- Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which won the Oct. 31 election for the House of Representatives, enjoys strong popularity among people below age 40 but lacks traction in big cities and among women, according to Nikkei's analysis of exit polls and municipal voting data.

TOKYO -- The widespread isolation of the COVID-19 era has taken a heavy toll on the cosmetics industry, but Japanese company Shiseido notes that one thing has not changed: the need to care for one's skin.

Erkki Liikanen, a former governor of the Bank of Finland, is chair of the IFRS Foundation Trustees. Ashley Alder is CEO of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, and board chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

LEH, India -- China and India are engaged in an infrastructure war along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh where a brutal hand-to-hand clash in the Galwan Valley in June last year left 20 Indian dead while China refused to disclose its casualties.

TOKYO -- Tech companies racing to develop artificial intelligence need to make sure it is not inherently biased, the president of IBM Japan said on Tuesday.

SHANGHAI -- It's fair to say CNFormulator, a Chinese cosmetic startup, is not your mother's makeup company. Nearly every day its marketing department uploads quick videos on its social media channels, trying to go viral in the spirit of a TikTok video.

TOKYO -- With Japan's borders reopening to international business travelers and students on Monday, schools like Osaka University moved quickly to regain lost ground as study abroad destinations during the coronavirus pandemic.

TOKYO -- BHP, the world's biggest miner, intends to focus its future portfolio on "commodities that have upside potential" for aiding decarbonization, especially minerals such a copper and nickel, chief executive Mike Henry said on Tuesday.

MANILA -- The Philippines' economic recovery slowed in the third quarter due to a tightening of movement restrictions to combat a delta variant-driven surge in COVID-19 infections.