Former outspoken MP establishes political school

The former outspoken Yangon regional legislator, who holds doctor in law from Japan Yokohama National University, said she founded the school to help Myanmar people who want to take part in the country’s politics. “There are many needs for professional ... ( read original story ...)

NKorea nukes, missiles top concerns in Japan defense review

The threat to Japan from North Korea has reached a "new stage" now that the country is capable of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile and its nuclear weapons program has advanced, a defense ministry report said Tuesday. North Korea was the main ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Display may seek outside investor for turnaround: Nikkei

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Display Inc is considering seeking funds from an outside investor to help finance an overhaul of its ailing smartphone screen-making business, including 3,500 job cuts, the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday. The liquid ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Bank Lending Steady At 3.3% In July

Overall bank lending in Japan was up 3.3 percent on year, the Bank of Japan said on Tuesday - coming in at 516.253 trillion yen. That was in line with expectations and unchanged from the June reading. Excluding trusts, bank lending advanced an annual 3.4 ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s political turmoil should make investors nervous

In addition, Japan’s domestic economic policy aside, the global economy is in good shape, with solid growth. We think these arguments are too optimistic. The Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) four years of extraordinary monetary easing have no doubt had positive ... ( read original story ...)

CFTC Fines Japanese Bank Over Spoofing

Law360, New York (August 7, 2017, 6:32 PM EDT) -- A Japanese bank that found one of its traders used phony trade orders to manipulate prices for eurodollar and U.S. Treasury notes and came clean with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission about the ... ( read original story ...)

USD/JPY – Yen Quiet, Markets Eye Japanese Current Account

Japan’s economy has shown improvement ... At its recent policy meeting, the BoJ again extended its time-frame for reaching its inflation target of 2%. The bank is reluctant to scale back its asset-purchase program, which means that it will likely ... ( read original story ...)

Dollar steadies as investors await U.S inflation data

"Looking to the Fed futures market, there's less than a 50 percent chance of one more rate hike this year," said Bill Northey, chief investment officer at U.S. Bank Private Client ... Against its Japanese counterpart, the dollar edged up to 110.78 yen. ( read original story ...)