TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s business-to-business services prices rose 1.6% in January from a year earlier, much slower than a 9.5% jump in wholesale goods prices, a sign the recent pick-up…
By Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nikkei 225 share index will hit the psychological 30,000 level by end-2023 on a better domestic corporate and global economic outlook in the…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s manufacturing activity contracted at the fastest pace in 30 months in February, a business survey showed on Tuesday, in a worrying sign for the world’s third-largest…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Subaru Corp slashed its annual output target by nearly 10% on Wednesday amid ongoing fallout from a semiconductor shortage that continues to hamper automakers around the…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s economy likely returned to growth in the last quarter of 2022 as the country reopened to tourists, offsetting weakening corporate activity and exports…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical Co posted a 13% drop in operating earnings for the nine months ended December but kept its profit outlook for the fiscal year unchanged…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s manufacturing activity contracted for a third straight month in January as export weakness persisted amid a worsening global outlook, a corporate survey showed on Tuesday. The…
(Reuters) – Japan’s biggest power generator JERA signed ammonia supply memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with CF Industries of the United States and Norway’s Yara Clean Ammonia Norge AS, as it…
By Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) – Market forces have pushed Japanese government bond yields above policy targets. The moves are the biggest test in seven years of yield control in…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States applauded Japan’s decision to double defense spending by 2027, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, ahead of planned talks later this…
By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – The United States plans to shake up its marine force on Japan’s Okinawa islands as Tokyo undertakes its biggest military build up since World…
TOKYO (Reuters) -The United States wants to disperse U.S. Marine units throughout Japan’s Okinawa islands by 2026, arming them with missiles and lighter gear to deter China’s military, and will…
By Elaine Lies and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida starts a tour of key Western partners on Monday, after unveiling his country’s biggest military buildup…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s economic output recovered to near its full capacity for the first time in nearly three years, data showed on Friday, a sign the…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday urged companies to increase wages faster than the rate of inflation. “In the past 30 years, wages did not rise…
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan’s decision to raise its bond-yield ceiling could be the first step toward normalising ultra-easy policy, Takatoshi Ito, a Columbia University professor who is…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Inpex Corp, Japan’s biggest oil and gas explorer, said on Tuesday that it has signed a long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) sales and purchase agreement with U.S.-based…
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea issued a strong protest against Japan’s territorial claim over disputed islands made in a national security strategy released on Friday while cautiously responding to Tokyo’s…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese manufacturers’ sentiment likely weakened in the last quarter of 2022 on sustained cost pressures and a bleaker global economic outlook, a Reuters poll…
By Nobuyo Saito TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese shares of soccer-related companies had a good day on Friday as they mirrored the national team’s roller-coaster performance at the World Cup where…
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nikkei 225 share average will rally to the psychological 30,000 level by the middle of next year for the first time since September…
By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday brushed aside the chance of adding wage growth as a new monetary policy goal the…
By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s top venture capital firm JAFCO Group Co Ltd said on Friday it would buy back shares worth 42 billion yen ($301 million) through…
By Rocky Swift and Mayu Sakoda TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese medical equipment maker Olympus Corp has largely completed a slew of asset sales and is now keen to do deals,…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc, Japan’s largest lender by assets, on Monday reported a 70.5% slide in second-quarter net profit because of another one-off loss related to…