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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · AKITO TANAKA

    Editor's Choice: Another Trump-Xi ambiguous summit (opens the original)

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    Hello from Tokyo. U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Washington on Thursday, marking their second face-to-face meeting this year after their May summit in Beijing. The White House rolled out the red carpet for Xi, with Trump personally greeting the Chinese leader at Joint Base Andrews, an unusual gesture that underscored the importance Washington attached to the state visit. Nikkei Asia has been closely covering this event in blog format. At first glance, the sum

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · AKITO TANAKA

    Editor's Choice: Apple's not-so-surprising, hard-to-afford foldable phone (opens the original)

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    Hello from Tokyo. Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo on Wednesday, its first-ever foldable iPhone. While the company created the vast smartphone market with the launch of the original iPhone 19 years ago, it's been a latecomer to foldable phones. Samsung's Galaxy series and Google's Pixel lineup have already offered foldable smartphones globally for some time, and China's Huawei even showed off a tri-fold model just days before Apple's event. For Apple's loyal fans worldwide, the arrival of the iPhon

  3. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · AKITO TANAKA

    Editor's Choice: As superfast-fashion retailer Shein misses stock trend, Uniqlo bets on brand power (opens the original)

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    Hello from Tokyo. China-founded fashion retailer Shein debuted on the Hong Kong stock market on Tuesday. The company's business model -- which analyzes social media and other big data to spot emerging fashion trends, rapidly mobilizes Chinese suppliers to produce new items, and sells them online at rock-bottom prices almost immediately -- made it a poster child for the rise of "superfast fashion." Yet despite being a trendsetter in the industry, Shein does not appear to be on-trend with the grow

  4. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · AKITO TANAKA

    Editor's Choice: When humanoids outrun Olympians, what comes next? (opens the original)

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    In recent years, advances in humanoid robots have been remarkable, driven largely by Chinese companies. At the Nikkei Asia Forum in Bangkok last month, a humanoid from startup AgiBot Innovation took the stage to perform a dance. Unitree Robotics, meanwhile, ahead of its landmark IPO in Shanghai on Wednesday, unveiled a humanoid model called "Superman." According to the company, Superman can jump about two meters high and run at a top speed of 12.66 meters per second, surpassing human records for

  5. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · AKITO TANAKA

    Editor's Choice: RIP Okuda-san, and succession plan for Toyota and its founding family (opens the original)

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    Hello from Tokyo. Hiroshi Okuda, the former Toyota Motor president who spearheaded the auto company's globalization drive, has passed away. Many Nikkei Asia readers probably know that the Toyoda family founded the automaker Toyota. The company started in 1937, and according to the company's website, the family chose "Toyota" instead of "Toyoda" as a corporate brand because it sounded better, and the number of strokes used to write it in Japanese was considered auspicious. Okuda became Toyota's p

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