Top diplomats of US, Japan, South Korea discuss North Korea satellite launch
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top diplomats of the United States, South Korea and Japan held a call on Friday to discuss North Korea’s recent launch of a…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top diplomats of the United States, South Korea and Japan held a call on Friday to discuss North Korea’s recent launch of a…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) – Former top Japanese currency official Tatsuo Yamasaki said he expects the yen will not weaken significantly from the current 150 to…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s industrial output likely inched up in October, a Reuters poll found on Friday, although widespread disruptions at top automaker Toyota Motor are expected to weigh heavily…
SEOUL (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will meet for talks in South Korea on Sunday, South Korea’s foreign ministry said on Friday, as the…
By Denny Thomas TORONTO (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. With Wall Street shut for Thanksgiving on Thursday, Asian investors will miss the usual swing…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government on Wednesday slashed its view on the economy for November in its first such downgrade in 10 months, as weak demand weighed on capital spending…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs’ Japan president Masanori Mochida has decided to retire at the end of the year after more than 38 years at the investment bank, according to…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core consumer inflation likely accelerated again in October, staying above the central bank’s 2% price target for a 19th straight month, a Reuters poll found on…
(Reuters) -Japan’s legislature has begun deliberations on a bill that would end the requirement for listed companies to file quarterly financial reports, in an effort to ease reporting burdens on…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) – A former top Japanese financial official said on Wednesday yen weakness might be caused not only by interest rate differentials between…
By Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s government is set to increase its fiscal loan and investment programme in a planned second extra budget to beef up supply chains and other…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese manufacturers’ business confidence improved for the first time since August while service-sector mood rose for a second month, according to the Reuters Tankan…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has doubled its forecast for defence orders to a record 1.6 trillion yen ($10.7 billion) in the current financial year, it said on Monday,…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor said on Monday that worldwide production rose 1.5% in September from the same period a year earlier to 900,919 vehicles, boosted by stronger demand in…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese policymakers maintained their warning to investors against selling the yen on Thursday in the wake of the currency’s renewed slide beyond…
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan announced an unscheduled bond operation on Tuesday, as it sought to slow a rise in Japanese government bond (JGB) yields…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government will extend until the end of April next year subsidies aimed at curbing fuel prices, according to a draft of the government’s economic stimulus package…
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors looking toward U.S. corporate earnings growth to revive the rally in the benchmark S&P 500 may be disappointed as inflation remains volatile,…
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo’s auto show is back for the first time in four years and newly rebranded for the electric vehicle era, in a marketing overhaul…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Lawmakers from Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) gave a list of proposals to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s cabinet for possible inclusion in an economic package to…
TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a staunch civil rights advocate for illegal migrants is on a political mission in Japan. Murphy, who touts New Jersey as a…
MARRAKECH, Morocco (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday said she met with South Korean Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho, and looked forward to a trilateral meeting with Japan’s…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core inflation likely stayed above the central bank’s 2% target for an 18th straight month in September, although consumer prices probably rose at…
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese households’ inflation expectations rose slightly in the three months to September, a central bank quarterly survey showed on Friday. The survey will be among factors that the…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan core machinery orders fell for a second straight month in August, suggesting worries about a global economic slowdown and China’s wobbly recovery may be hurting companies’…