Japan’s corporate service inflation steady at nearly 9-year high in December
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s annual business-to-business service inflation hit 2.4% in December to match the previous month’s nearly nine-year high, data showed, suggesting companies were gradually passing on rising labour costs amid…
Japan’s Aug core inflation likely slowed slightly, still above BOJ target – Reuters poll
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 2% target for a 17th straight month…
Japan’s Subaru sees Indiana as possible U.S. EV production site -CEO
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 site in the world’s biggest economy, the…
Japan’s new economy minister sees positive signs emerging for end of deflation
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 areas for the economy to escape deflation.…
TSMC prizes Japan’s chips skills after US stumbles -sources
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 an increasingly optimistic view of Japan as…
Russia’s Medvedev: Japan’s ‘militarisation’ complicates Asia-Pacific
(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 on Sunday. Russia and Japan have complex…
Japan’s factory activity shrinks, squeezed by costs – PMI
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 pressures from raw material inflation and rising…
Japan’s Simplex launches first ETFs focused on stocks below book value
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 shares below book value, reflecting demand for…
Japan’s July jobless rate rises to 2.7%
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 was higher than economists’ median forecast of…
Japan’s price trend gauges hit record, signal broadening inflation
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan may be seeing early signs of sticky inflation with several measures of broad price trends hitting record highs in July, data showed, heightening the case…
Japan’s factory activity shrinks at slower pace in Aug – PMI
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, although the pace of decline slowed, a…
Japan’s Mizuho holds off on JGBs given potential end to negative rates -senior executive
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 may prompt the central bank to exit…
JPMorgan sees Japan’s threshold for yen intervention at around 150 yen per dollar
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 on Monday. “We think that the MoF…
Blinken says US satisfied with Japan’s plans to release water from Fukushima
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 tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the…
Japan’s Suzuki: Not targeting absolute levels on FX intervention
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 intervening in the market. Suzuki made the…
Weak yen gives Japan’s automakers temporary relief from China pain
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 declining sales in China and the increasingly…
Japan’s July core inflation likely slowed on weaker commodity prices: Reuters poll
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, although the indicator is set hold above…
Japan’s Kobe Steel raises annual profit forecast to record $840 million
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 million) on expected higher selling prices and…
Japan’s Warabeya shares drop after cockroach found in 7-Eleven rice balls
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 found inside its rice that were sold…
Japan’s SoftBank Corp posts 2.1% increase in Q1 profit
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 profit was 246.3 billion yen ($1.73 billion)…
Japan’s service activity growth softens in July – PMI
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, but the overall performance of the sector…
Analysis-Hungry investors queue up as Japan’s BOJ lifts yields bit by bit
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 Japan, as the latter tries to slow…
Japan’s factory activity falls on soft orders – PMI
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 weakening global economic conditions. The final au…
Japan’s megabanks eye BOJ boost after solid first quarter
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) nudge towards policy normalisation will herald a…
Analysis-Bank of Japan’s opaque policy shift means stronger, wilder yen
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 policy change, threatening to upend the carry…
Explainer-How does Japan’s yield curve control work?
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), which has come under criticism for distorting…
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