TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s factory activity contracted for the fourth straight month and the service sector growth slipped to an eight-month low, a survey showed …
By Makiko Yamazaki (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida aims to spur competition in the country’s $5 trillion asset management industry by prompting new …
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese authorities are always in close communication with U.S. counterparts on currencies and share a mutual understanding that excessive volatility …
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will likely keep interest rates ultra-low on Friday and reassure markets that monetary stimulus will …
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core inflation likely ran at 3.0% in August, according to a Reuters poll, staying above the central bank’s …
By Maki Shiraki TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. state of Indiana could well become the most-favoured location for Subaru to establish an electric vehicle production …
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s new Economy Minister Yoshitaka Shindo said on Thursday that positive signs were emerging in output gaps and other …
By Sam Nussey, Fanny Potkin and Sarah Wu TOKYO/SINGAPORE/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s TSMC, which is making an unprecedented push into chip manufacturing overseas, is taking …
(Reuters) – Japan’s “militarisation” complicates the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council and former President Dmitry Medvedev said …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s factory activity shrank for a third straight month in August, a survey showed on Friday, as manufacturers were squeezed by cost …
By Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Simplex Asset Management said it will launch exchange-traded funds focused on undervalued stocks, including the first aimed at …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s jobless rate rose to 2.7% in July from the previous month, government data showed on Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate …
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan may be seeing early signs of sticky inflation with several measures of broad price trends hitting record highs …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s factory activity shrank for a third straight month in August amid higher oil prices and uncertainty over the global economic outlook, …
By Makiko Yamazaki and Ritsuko Shimizu TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group is holding off on buying government bonds as a sustained economic recovery …
LONDON (Reuters) – Japan’s threshold for currency market intervention on the yen is likely to be around 150 per dollar, investment bank JPMorgan’s analysts said …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said Washington is satisfied with Japan’s plan to release treated radioactive water from the …
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday that authorities are not targeting absolute currency levels when it comes to …
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese automakers are getting much-needed cover from an old standby, as the weaker yen helps prop up profits amid …
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core inflation likely eased in July, according to a Reuters poll of analysts, weighed by softer commodity prices, …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Kobe Steel raised its net profit forecast for the current fiscal year to a record high of 120 billion yen ($839 …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Warabeya Nichiyo saw its shares lose more than 4% on Monday after the food maker disclosed two instances of cockroaches being …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s SoftBank Corp, the domestic telecoms arm of SoftBank Group, posted a 2.1% increase in first quarter operating profit on Friday. Operating …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s service sector activity expanded at a slightly slower pace in July as new business growth eased and cost pressures remained high, …
By Kevin Buckland and Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government bond market has turned into a cat-and-mouse arena for investors and the Bank of …
TOKYO – Japan’s factory activity contracted at a faster pace in July, a business survey showed on Tuesday, taking a hit from soft orders amid …
By Makiko Yamazaki and Anton Bridge TOKYO (Reuters) -Two of Japan’s megabanks reported solid quarterly profits on Monday amid hopes the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) …
By Naomi Rovnick, Alun John and Ankur Banerjee LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The Japanese yen is on a bumpy path towards strengthening after Friday’s central bank …
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – One of Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda’s main challenges will be to phase out yield curve control (YCC), …
By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Core inflation in Japan’s capital slowed in July but remained well above the central bank’s 2% …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s business-to-business service inflation slowed in June, data showed on Wednesday, suggesting that companies remained slow in passing on rising labour costs …
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s top financial diplomat on Friday suggested the central bank may tweak its approach to monetary stimulus at its …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Core inflation in Japan’s capital likely stayed above the central bank’s 2% target but slowed sharply in July, a Reuters poll showed …
(Reuters) – Nissan on Wednesday became the first Japanese automaker to agree to adopt Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging technology in the U.S. and Canada, joining global …
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Pasit Kongkunakornkul BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Siam Motors partnered with Nissan Motors in 1962 with a factory that rolled out four …
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese firms offered the biggest pay hikes in three decades at this year’s negotiations with workers, the country’s largest trade …
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s government raked in record tax income last fiscal year, the finance ministry said on Monday, which could help Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s jobless rate was flat at 2.6% in May from the previous month, government data showed on Friday. The seasonally adjusted unemployment …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corp said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with SkyDrive Inc to make “flying cars”. The companies …
By Takaya Yamaguchi and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government will pledge to pull the economy out of deflation through bold monetary policy, flexible …
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese stocks rose on Friday, with the benchmark Nikkei index closing at a three-decade high, after U.S. lawmakers voted …
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s economy likely grew more than initially estimated in the first three months of this year, thanks to solid …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Hitachi Astemo said on Thursday an auto industry veteran will take over as top executive from Brice Koch, who handled the …
TOKYO – Japan’s factory activity expanded in May for the first time in seven months thanks to increases in output and new orders and buoyed …
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will closely watch currency market moves and respond “appropriately” as needed, the country’s top currency diplomat said on Tuesday …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s jobless rate fell to 2.6% in April from 2.8% in the previous month, government data showed on Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted …
By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government is expected to fund part of its spending for childcare measures by issuing additional …
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nikkei 225 share average will drop 4% from 33-year highs, returning to the psychologically key 30,000 level by …
By John Irish HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – As Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy touched down in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Saturday, cameras zoomed in on …
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – More than a year after escaping her native Kyiv with a broken leg one winter night, Lidiya Bibko lives …