Leading Japan lawmaker seeks Trump meeting during New York visit, NHK reports
By Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) – A senior figure in Japan’s ruling party will travel to New York next week and is seeking a meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, according…
Marketmind: Japan CPI to light up dulled Thanksgiving trade
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 factor. Instead,…
Japan cuts view on economy for first time in 10 months
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 and consumer…
Goldman Sachs Japan chief to retire at year end – internal memo
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 an internal…
Japan Oct CPI seen accelerating, staying above BOJ’s target: Reuters poll
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 Friday. The…
Japan poised to scrap quarterly report requirement for businesses -Nikkei Asia
(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 businesses, Nikkei…
Japan ex-currency tsar sees structural factors behind yen weakness
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 Japan and…
Japan to top up fiscal loans, investments to boost supply chain -draft
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 long-term spending,…
Japan business mood improves, but global stress dims outlook – Reuters Tankan
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 poll, which…
Mitsubishi Heavy expects record defence orders as Japan boosts military
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, as Japan…
Toyota September production jumps on stronger Japan output
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 Japan, the…
Japan policymakers jawbone markets as yen falls beyond key threshold
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 150 to…
Bank of Japan to conduct unscheduled bond-buying operation
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 that had…
Japan to extend until April 2024 subsidies to curb fuel costs – stimulus package draft
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 reviewed by…
BlackRock warns of US earnings stagnation, remains bullish on AI, Japan
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, strategists at…
Japan auto show returns, as industry faces EV turning point
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 that may…
Japan ruling LDP offers proposals for Kishida’s economic package, but no income tax cuts
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 help people…
Phil Murphy is in Japan, Where Illegal Immigration is Still Illegal
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 sanctuary state…
Yellen: met with S.Korean finance minister, looking forward to trilateral with Japan
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 finance minister.…
Japan Sept CPI seen staying above BOJ target for 1-1/2 years- Reuters poll
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 their slowest…
Japan households’ inflation expectations rise slightly – BOJ poll
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 Bank of…
Japan Aug machinery orders fall, overseas slowdown may weigh
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’ appetite to…
Japan to chair G7 finance ministers meeting at IMF conference on Oct 12
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will chair a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven (G7) advanced nations on Oct. 12 to discuss the…
Japan likely won’t intervene to reverse yen downtrend – ex-top FX diplomat
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan likely won’t seek to reverse the yen’s downtrend with exchange-rate intervention as recent falls reflect economic fundamentals, former top currency diplomat Naoyuki Shinohara told Reuters.…
Citigroup raises Japan stocks to ‘neutral,’ cuts UK to ‘underweight’
(Reuters) – Citigroup on Friday upgraded its recommendation on Japanese stocks to “neutral” as the country’s economy and earnings look resilient, but downgraded British equities to “underweight” due to high exposure to…
Many factors to consider if FX moves are ‘excessive’ -Japan Finance Minister
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday there were many factors to consider in determining whether moves in the foreign exchange market were “excessive”, adding that there were…
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