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The embassy said that it can "confidently Speak Now" to say that Taylor Swift can make the big game if there are no flight delays The Japanese Embassy in Washington moved to quell panicked Swifties over the the megastar’s chances of making it to see her boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl following her post-concert flight from Tokyo. Taylor Swift is set to take the stage in Tokyo to a sold-out concert as part of her massive Eras Tour the day before the big game. The 17-hour time…

This is getting silly. It was already silly, to be sure, but now the whole Taylor Swift/NFL/Travis Kelce/Super Bowl thing is truly getting surreal and more than a little off the rails. Here’s the latest: Japan’s embassy in Washington, D.C., has released a statement about Swift’s travel plans. In other words: Because a pop singer has to fly from performing shows in Tokyo to Las Vegas to watch a football game on a relatively short schedule, the Embassy of Japan has something to say — and it…

Toyota Toyota sold more cars last year than any other automaker, figures released by the company on Tuesday confirmed. Toyota beat German rival Volkswagen into second place, selling 11.2 million vehicles to customers worldwide over the last 12 months, marking a 7.2% increase over the previous year. It sees Toyota holding the top spot for the fourth straight year and setting a new annual record for auto sales among all carmakers. Volkswagen recently reported 9.2 million sales, marking a year-on-year rise of 12%. South…

Analysts say the group companies' problems are likely to have a limited impact on Toyota's earnings because their sales and profits are a small fraction of Toyota's overall global earnings.Japanese transport officials raided a Toyota-affiliated plant Tuesday after the company admitted to cheating on engine testing, as Toyota Motor Corp. reported it sold over 11 million vehicles in 2023 to retain its status as the world's top car manufacturer. Hours after the probe began…

Japanese ecommerce conglomerate Rakuten Group said on Wednesday that it will issue $1.8 billion of U.S. dollar-denominated 3-year senior notes at an interest rate of 11.25%.The fundraising will allow Rakuten to fully buy back its 10.25% senior notes and 3.546% senior notes due in 2024, which have a combined principal outstanding of $1.75 billion.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitMITMIT Technology Leadership and…

Phylogenetic trees of detected gut bacteria. The tree indicates phylogenetic relationships of 4,616 bacterial species. Credit: Nishimura et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) DNA from ancient feces can offer archaeologists new clues about the life and health of Japanese people who lived thousands of years ago, according to a study published in PLOS ONE by Luca Nishimura and Ituro Inoue from…

MDC Holdings, a 51-year-old Denver-based homebuilder with nearly a quarter of a million houses to its credit and a footprint that expands across the U.S., has agreed to a nearly $5 billion buyout offer from a Japanese firm. The homebuilder, founded by Larry Mizel in 1972 and parent of American Richmond Homes, announced the deal with Japanese homebuilder Sekisui House Ltd. on Thursday. Larry A. Mizel, chairman and CEO of M.D.C. Holdings A U.S. subsidiary of Sekisui will pay $63 a share in cash, a 19% premium to MDC’s…

This collaboration will enable SkyDrive to cater to the global UAM market, including India.Engineering & tech solutions provider Cyient has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japanese electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft manufacturer SkyDrive Inc.As part of the MoU, the two players will be collaborating across product development, engineering, manufacturing and digital services for SkyDrive's eVTOL aircraft. The urban air mobility…

The Japanese space agency JAXA has confirmed that its upcoming Mars mission, which would see a spacecraft traveling to the Martian moon Phobos, has been delayed by two years.The Martian Moons eXploration mission (MMX) was originally slated to launch sometime this year. However, the agency has blamed issues with a part of the H3 rocket that would lift the spacecraft into orbit as the main reason behind the delay.JAXA shared the news about the delay of the Japanese Mars mission on X (formerly Twitter), saying that…

At first glance, it looks like a piece of historical whimsy: a sequential, pictorial account of rats scurrying about in preparation for a wedding feast.Inked sometime between 1550 and 1650 CE, during Muromachi, Azuchi–Momoyama, or Edo Japan, the anonymous picture scroll titled Nezumi no sōshi emaki – The Illustrated Rat's Tale – is more than an interesting bit of art history.While early Japanese picture scrolls are considered by some to be the precursor to the manga art form that blossomed and boomed in the 20th century,…