OSAKA -- Japanese motor manufacturer Nidec seeks to collect ... The regional centers of operation will finance each other under this arrangement, reducing the need for outside borrowing. Nidec seeks to bring its effective corporate tax rate under 20% ... ( read original story ...)
Expo 2025 is an exceptional project for Azerbaijan’s future, says BIE official
“The evaluation mission will also visit other candidate cities for Expo 2025 – Paris, Osaka and Yekaterinburg. The winner will be announced in November next year. Baku has to convince the evaluation mission and 170 BIE member states that it’s ready ... ( read original story ...)
Panasonic’s facial recognition gate selected by Japan’s Ministry of Justice
Osaka [Japan], Dec.15 (ANI): Panasonic Corporation announced ... (ANI) New Delhi [India], Dec 15 (ANI): Delhi-based FinTech startup Cash Suvidha, the trade name of Usha Financial Services Pvt. Ltd., raised an institutional debt of USD 2.7 million from ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks close lower on strong yen
Tokyo stocks fell Thursday on a stronger yen as investors shifted their focus to the US tax cut plan after digesting the latest US rate hike. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index lost 0.28 percent, or 63.62 points, to close at 22,694.45, while the broader Topix ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka: 5 arrested in beating and confinement death; victim forced to drink excrement
Sho Itsubo is one of five suspects accused in the beating and confinement death of Akihiro Watanabe (TBS News) OSAKA (TR) – Shiga Prefectural Police have arrested a group of five male and female persons over the beating and confinement of a man who died ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka: 5 arrested in two beating and confinement deaths; one victim forced to drink excrement
Sho Itsubo is one of five suspects accused in the beating and confinement death of Akihiro Watanabe (TBS News) OSAKA (TR) – Shiga Prefectural Police have arrested a group of five male and female persons over the beating and confinement deaths of two ... ( read original story ...)
Japan expands unilateral sanctions against North Korea
Japan has imposed fresh sanctions against North Korea as it seeks to ramp up pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programmes. Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said the assets of another 19 entities and individuals would be frozen. More ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo rocked as HUGE earthquake strikes Japan coast
The magnitude 4.5 quake struck at 11.43am JST (2.43am GMT) 36 miles south of Tokyo. Reports on social media suggest the impact of the earthquake was felt in the capital. One Twitter user said: “I just felt my first earthquake ever while in Tokyo.” ( read original story ...)
Light earthquake 4 mag, 69 km SE of Toba, Japan
A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Toba in Japan on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/12/17 / 2017-12-08 23:15:20 / December 8, 2017 @ 11:15 pm. The temblor was picked up at 08:15:20 / 8:15 am ... ( read original story ...)
Japan firm says it will pay part of salaries in Bitcoin
GMO Internet, which operates a range of web-related businesses including finance, online advertising and internet infrastructure, will start paying up to 100,000 yen ($890) monthly by Bitcoin to its employees in Japan from February next year. "Employees ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s wall of money falls on project finance
THE urban myth of capital markets lurks in the world of project finance: the wall of Japanese money. This urban myth is likely to chime with investment bankers from the good old days of the 1980s. Back then, traders of Bunds or OATs were always waiting for ... ( read original story ...)
In major shift, Rakuten plots to become Japan’s No. 4 wireless carrier
Rakuten, which operates one of Japan's most popular shopping websites, said it hoped to gain a new engine of growth, adding that having a mobile license would complement its e-commerce, streaming and fintech services such as online securities trading. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s big manufacturers’ mood hits 11-year high – tankan
The data may help the Bank of Japan (BOJ) make the case that strengthening economic recovery will prompt firms to raise wages and allow it to edge away from crisis-mode stimulus, even before inflation hits the central bank's elusive 2 percent target. ( read original story ...)
Japan to keep record-low interest rates in FY2018 budget draft – sources
The finance ministry earlier estimated next year's debt-servicing ... Debt-servicing costs account for roughly a quarter of the annual government budget. Japan has the industrial world's heaviest debt burden at more than twice the size of its economy. ( read original story ...)
Government of Japan to Invest US$50 million in Global Financing Facility to Accelerate Progress on Universal Health Coverage
"As part of the pledge made by Prime Minister Abe this morning, Japan will provide US$30 million to the GFF Trust Fund … ," said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Japan Taro Aso. He also announced that Japan was ready to contribute another ... ( read original story ...)
Web Japan, Site for Spreading Information on Things Japanese, Announces Launch of Multilingual Versions
TOKYO, Dec. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Public Relations Office of Web Japan is pleased to announce that the website for spreading information on things Japanese has newly started posting articles in multiple languages. Web Japan was launched in 2004 with ... ( read original story ...)