Tokyo-Seoul standoff decades in the making, writes Kim Tong-hyung and Yuri Kageyama. A runaway train. Crashing billiard balls. A compound fracture. Journalists and academics in Seoul have been running ... ( read original story ...)
Japan approves further exports of high-tech material to South Korea: sources
SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan has approved shipments of a high-tech material to South Korea for the second time since imposing export curbs last month, two people familiar with the matter said on ... ( read original story ...)
Restaurateur, 86: Free lunch if you can put me down in arm wrestling
NAGOYA--Beat an 86-year-old man in arm wrestling and win a free lunch? Many have tried to their regret to put Eiji Okubo down at his restaurant here in the city’s Chikusa Ward. But most have been left ... ( read original story ...)
Faced with global downturn fears, Japan Inc avoids raising bonuses: Reuters poll
In Japan, bonuses serve as a barometer of business confidence, as companies prefer using them to adjust pay up or down - boosting bonuses when business is good and slashing them in tougher times - ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s exports down for eighth month, sales to China slump as recession fears grow
Separately, the Reuters Tankan survey showed Japanese manufacturers' business confidence turned negative for the first time since April 2013 in August. "My impression is that the year-on-year rise in ... ( read original story ...)
Big global bond rally puts Bank of Japan in a bind
Many traders in Japan had a tough first day back from a national holiday on Monday, arriving at their desks to find speculative net long positions in the yen heading towards a record high and the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Inc backs Abe’s tough trade stance vs South Korea amid row: Reuters poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese companies broadly support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s tough trade stance against South Korea, a Reuters poll found. Three-quarters of companies in the monthly Reuters ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 1-Japan again approved shipment of photoresists to South Korea -Yonhap News
SEOUL, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Japan has approved shipment of a high-tech material to South Korea for the second time since imposing export curbs last month, Yonhap News Agency reported late on Monday, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Inc must back independent boards as a check on hostile takeovers
Two recent events -- Yahoo Japan's ousting of Askul's CEO and three independent directors, and H.I.S.'s unfolding hostile tender offer for Unizo Holdings -- should prompt corporate Japan to ... ( read original story ...)
How History Can Actually Solve the South Korea-Japan Crisis
Korea-Japan relations, already strained by South Korean Supreme Court rulings last fall ordering Japanese companies to compensate World War II victims of forced labor, began breaking down across new ... ( read original story ...)
Injured Osaka maintains top spot
PARIS: Naomi Osaka holds on to the top of the WTA rankings on Monday despite injury and elimination from the Cincinnati Masters. The Japanese lost to 20th placed Sofia Kenin in the quarter-finals on ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 finalises Live Sites, triathlon hit by water contamination
The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has today (Monday) finalised its selection of 30 ‘Live Site’ venues by adding one more destination to the previously announced ... ( read original story ...)
Things Can Get Worse for Japan’s Immiserated Regional Banks
Ultralow interest rates are making it a miserable year for Japanese banks, with many stocks hitting historic lows. The bad news is that things can still get worse. For Chiba Bank, in particular, the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan shrine for war dead vandalized by man claiming to be Chinese
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police on Monday arrested a man claiming to be Chinese for throwing a black ink-like liquid on a curtain at one of the buildings of Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine for war ... ( read original story ...)
United Airlines to fly to second Tokyo airport from Dulles
United Airlines on Friday said it will start flying nonstop between four United States hubs and Tokyo’s close-in Haneda Airport on March 28. The four hubs are Chicago, Los Angeles, New York ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Next Post-Anime Cultural Export May Be Pro-Wrestling
the highest since the IPO. The stock is up 32% since trading began, giving the company a market value of about $369 million. Hashimoto is seeking to tap into global demand for Japanese media ... ( read original story ...)