The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is set to begin issuing partnership certificates to same-sex couples in November. The Tokyo assembly approved the related ordinance on Wednesday that is aimed at ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM’s cautious course sets up potential long-term rule
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida did not look like he'd last long when he took office eight months ago. He was seen as nice, but indecisive and subservient to party heavyweights. ( read original story ...)
Japan Runs Biggest Trade Deficit In More Than 8 Years In May
Japan ran its biggest single-month trade deficit in more than eight years in May as high commodity prices and declines in the yen swelled imports, clouding the country's economic outlook. ( read original story ...)
Japan posts biggest trade deficit in more than 8 years after yen sinks
Japan ran its biggest single-month trade deficit in more than eight years in May as high commodity prices and declines in the yen swelled imports, clouding the country's economic outlook. Read more at ... ( read original story ...)
Weak yen may be existential threat to Japan’s iconic dollar stores like Daiso
The supremacy of Japan's 100-yen shops, long a symbol of an economy stuck with flat to falling prices for almost three decades, is beginning to crumble. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)
EXCLUSIVE More than 80% of Japanese firms back nuclear restart, tourism resumption
A large majority of Japanese companies support both restarting idled nuclear reactors and this month's resumption of foreign tourism, a Reuters survey showed, highlighting broad approval for two ... ( read original story ...)
More Americans are buying and spending crypto-currency, leading to a big spike in crypto-crime.
It’s been an up and down year for bitcoin and other online currencies, with prices and values fluctuating wildly. And the instability is creating the perfect breeding ground for cyber-criminals ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Layoffs Signal a Long Downturn Ahead with ‘No End In Sight,’ Experts Warn
Many companies weren't expecting the crypto downturn to happen this rapidly. Now, insiders are bracing for more than a year of doldrums. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Exports Rose in May on Robust Demand
By Jie Yang Japan's exports increased in May for the 15th consecutive month, driven by robust overseas demand for steel and mineral fuels, Ministry ... ( read original story ...)
Japan May exports jump 15.8% year/year -MOF
Japan's exports rose 15.8 per cent in May from a year earlier, Ministry of Finance (MOF) data showed on Thursday.That compared to a 16.4 per cent increase expected by economists in a Reuters ... ( read original story ...)
Japan offers strategic aid to PH
Japan has offered to assist the Philippines develop its own military-industrial complex via strategic technology transfers and outright equipment donations, a source at the ... ( read original story ...)
Sounds of Tokyo train station visualized in trial for hearing impaired travelers
A train station in Tokyo on Wednesday started reproducing platform announcements and the sounds of train arrivals and departures onto a screen in the form of text and sign language to help the hearing ... ( read original story ...)
Japan battles flooding amid deepening climate crisis
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Japan news every morning. In October 2019, Typhoon Hagibis made landfall on the Japanese coast near Tokyo, with winds of more than ... ( read original story ...)
China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries skid to 12-year low; Japan also cuts holdings
China's holdings of U.S Treasuries tumbled in April to their lowest since May 2010, data showed on Wednesday, with Chinese investors likely cutting losses as Treasury prices fell after Federal Reserve ... ( read original story ...)
Binance, Kraken, FTX Go on Hiring Spree as Rest of Crypto Crumbles
While the crypto market itself has dropped below $1 trillion in value, major exchanges and coins like terra and Celsius have faced substantial drops in both investor confidence and valuation. Celsius ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries slide to lowest in more than two years
Japan's holdings of U.S. Treasuries fell further in April to their lowest level since January 2020, data from the U.S. Treasury Department showed on Wednesday, amid a persistent decline in the yen's ... ( read original story ...)