Month: April 2022

Japan will communicate closely with the United States and other countries to respond to currency moves appropriately, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said, ratcheting up warnings against any sharp ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - When Vanessa, a worker with Japan's "technical intern" programme, told her supervisors she was pregnant, she says they first suggested an abortion and then pressured her to quit. ( read original story ...)

Japan has never felt any pressure from the United States to exit oil and gas projects on Russia's Sakhalin island in which Japanese companies own stake, the industry minister said on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki ramped up government verbal warnings over the weakening of the yen with remarks that briefly supported a gain in the currency. ( read original story ...)

Japan's wholesale inflation remained near record-high levels in March as the Ukraine crisis and a weak yen pushed up fuel and raw material costs, data showed on Tuesday, adding strains to the resource ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has canceled the purchase of 40 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, citing a lack of need. ( read original story ...)

Japan's health ministry has confirmed the country's first case of the XE strain of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. ( read original story ...)

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.3%. Australian shares were down 0.65%, while Japan's Nikkei stock index slid 1.5%. ( read original story ...)

Wholesale prices in the year to March jumped 7.3 percent from a year earlier, the fastest pace on record, driven by surging crude oil and commodity prices as well as a weak yen, Bank of Japan data ... ( read original story ...)

Citizens’ groups concerned about development costs for ‘integrated resort’ as well as crime and gambling addiction ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese wholesale prices rose 9.5 percent in the year to March, Bank of Japandata showed on Tuesday.[JPCGPY=ECI]The rise in the corporate goods price index (CGPI), which measures the price companies ... ( read original story ...)

Japan and Russia started negotiations Monday over Tokyo's fishing quota of salmon and trout spawned in Russian rivers, a move seen as ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. President Joe Biden indicated Monday that a planned in-person summit of the "Quad" group in Japan will be held around May 24. The members of the Quad, which also involves Japan, Australia and ... ( read original story ...)