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…
Factbox-Old disputes overshadow visit by Japan’s Kishida to S.Korea
(Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will be visiting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday in the latest effort to improve bilateral ties. However, the trip will be overshadowed…
Japan’s factory activity contracts at slower pace in April – PMI
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s factory activity contracted for the sixth straight month in April, but the details of a private survey released on Monday showed the manufacturing sector was edging towards stabilisation…
Japan’s ex-top FX diplomat sees BOJ keeping ultra-low rates this year
By Leika Kihara and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is set to keep monetary policy steady on Friday and may struggle to raise interest rates off their…
Japan’s business services inflation hits 8-year high in fiscal 2022
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s business-to-business service inflation hit an eight-year high in the fiscal year that ended March, data showed on Tuesday, a sign inflationary pressure was broadening beyond goods reflecting a…
Japan’s factory activity shrinks at slowest pace in six months – PMI
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s manufacturing activity shrank at the slowest pace in six months in April on a softer decline in sales, while the service-sector stayed solid, a preliminary survey showed on…
BOJ keeps upbeat economic view on seven of Japan’s nine regions
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan maintained its upbeat economic assessment for most regions on Thursday, saying wage hikes were broadening, underscoring its conviction that the country was…
South Korea and Japan’s finance ministers to hold first bilateral talks in 7 years
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – South Korea and Japan’s finance ministers will hold a bilateral meeting early next month for the first time in seven years, heralding closer cooperation in economic policy that has…
Japan’s MUFG sets emissions targets for real estate, shipping, steel
By David Dolan and Simon Jessop TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group on Tuesday laid out emissions-cutting targets for lending to the real estate, steel and shipping sectors, and said…
Japan’s current account swings back to black on overseas investment
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s current account swung to a surplus in February, reflecting hefty returns on securities investments and easing some concerns about any weakening of the country’s purchasing…
Japan’s crackdown on truck driver overtime raises fears of economic breakdown
By Mariko Katsumura and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – Truck driver Yuichi Tomita has been delivering packages all over Japan for two decades, often clocking 40 straight hours on the road. He…
Japan’s economy runs below capacity, low rates may stay in place
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s economic output ran below full capacity for the 11th straight quarter in October-December, central bank data showed on Wednesday, suggesting that conditions for ending ultra-low interest rates have…
Japan’s business services prices perk up near BOJ’s inflation target
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s business-to-business services inflation picked up in February on a tourism rebound and rising labour costs, data showed, offering the central bank hope that steady wage hikes…
Japan’s factory activity contracts for fifth month – PMI
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s manufacturing activity contracted for a fifth straight month in March as output and new orders remained under pressure, a survey showed on Friday, suggesting the economic recovery is…
The long-running crisis at Japan’s Toshiba
By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp’s board on Thursday accepted a buyout offer from a group led by private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners (JIP), ending months of speculation over…
Japan’s land prices up at fastest pace since 2008 on gradual econ recovery
By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s land prices rose for a second straight year at the fastest pace since 2008, a government survey showed on Wednesday, spurred by signs of economic…
Japan’s Kishida to announce new Indo-Pacific plan, seek India’s support
By Krishn Kaushik and Yukiko Toyoda NEW DELHI/TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will on Monday announce a new plan for an open and free Indo-Pacific in New Delhi and…
Japan’s Feb consumer inflation seen slowing sharply on subsidies – Reuters Poll
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core consumer inflation likely slowed sharply in February from a 41-year high in the previous month, a Reuters poll of 20 economists showed, as government subsidies for gas…
Japan’s policymakers play down contagion risk from SVB collapse
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese policymakers on Tuesday played down the risk of the economy taking a hit from the collapse of U.S. lender Silicon Valley Bank, even as fears of a contagion…
Japan’s February service-sector activity grows at fastest rate in eight months – PMI
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s services sector activity grew at the fastest pace in eight months in February, a private sector survey showed on Friday, as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic…
Japan’s jobless rate falls to 2.4% in January
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s jobless rate fell to 2.4% in January, while the availability of jobs fell for the first time in nearly 2-1/2 years, government data showed on Friday. The seasonally…
Japan’s Kishida: Hope to meet new BOJ chief to confirm policy coordination
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Friday he hoped to meet the government’s nominee for next central bank governor, Kazuo Ueda, as soon as he takes…
Japan’s modest business services price rise highlights dilemma for central bank
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 in inflation…
Japan’s Nikkei seen hitting 30,000 by end of 2023 on economic recovery: Reuters poll
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 latter part…
Japan’s factory activity shrinks at fastest pace in 2-1/2 years-PMI
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 economy, which…
Japan’s Subaru cuts annual output target as chip shortage drags on
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 world. The…
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