Renault chief executive Luca de Meo has jetted into Tokyo for a weekend of talks with Nissan boss Makoto Uchida aimed at breaking a deadlock over intellectual property and potentially paving the way ... ( read original story ...)
US warships, with South Korea and Japan, train to shoot down North Korean missiles
U.S. warships from the USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group teamed up with South Korean and Japanese destroyers to practice shooting down missiles in the Sea of Japan Thursday, a show of force ... ( read original story ...)
The Fight to Cut Off the Crypto Fueling Russia’s Ukraine Invasion
Blockchain investigators have uncovered at least $4 million—and counting—in cryptocurrency fundraising has reached Russia's violent militia groups.
Visa dives deeper into crypto as FTX-linked debit card expands outside US
This FTX-branded Visa debit card will link directly to users’ accounts so people can pay for items and services with their crypto balance in FTX wallets.
Best destination for SoftBank’s Arm IPO is nowhere
For Masayoshi Son the biggest question is not where to list Arm, but when. The boss of Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank Group has been pushing for an initial public offering of the Cambridge-based ...
Roundup: Japan’s Nikkei snaps 4-day winning streak on Fed rate hike woes, chip stocks drop
Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index snapped a four-day winning streak Friday amid fresh concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve will push ahead with its aggressive monetary tightening policy. The ...
Nikkei 225 Off 0.7% as Tech Issues Soften
The Nikkei 225 opened lower Friday on overnight Wall Street cues and could not recover, finishing down 0.7% as tech issues lost ground. Railroad stocks rose on hopes for more tourism as Japan eases ...
U.S., S. Korea, Japan hold defense exercises amid rising tensions on peninsula
U.S., South Korean and Japanese warships conducted ballistic missile defense exercises Thursday near the Korean Peninsula in retaliation to North Korea days earlier firing a missile over Japan. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s earthquake warnings to include alerts on long-period ground motions
Japan's Meteorological Agency plans to start issuing alerts in February for long and slow tremors that would affect skyscrapers, as part of its early warnings for powerful earthquakes. ( read original story ...)
EIG unit to buy Tokyo Gas’s stakes in Australian LNG projects for $2.15 bln
TOKYO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - MidOcean Energy, a unit of U.S. fund EIG, said on Friday it had agreed with Tokyo Gas Co Ltd (9531.T) to buy the Japanese company's stakes in a portfolio of four Australian ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s foreign exchange reserves fall by record $54bn
Japanese foreign exchange reserves fell by a record amount in September and China’s dipped closer to $3tn as the surging dollar hit two of the world’s most significant pools of central bank assets. ( read original story ...)
Google to invest $690 mln in Japan, CEO Pichai tells Nikkei
Google will open a data centre in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo next year — its first in Japan — which will provide faster and ... extending the run of lacklustre initial public offering (IPO) debut ...
Google to Invest $690 Million in Japan, CEO Pichai Tells Nikkei
Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during signing ceremony committing Google to help expand information technology education at El Centro College in Dallas, Texas, U.S. October 3, 2019. REUTERS/Brandon ...
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui slapped with administrative order over rules breach
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s financial regulator on Friday ordered Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc (SMFG) to devise measures to improve compliance after the group’s banking and securities arms ...
Japan regulator orders brokerage to halt block trading
Japan’s Financial Services Agency ordered brokerage SMBC Nikko Securities to suspend its block trading operations for three months from Friday as part of penalties in a market manipulation case.
Japan’s international reserves fall to 5-year-low
The reserves fell to $1.24 trillion, the lowest level since March 2017, the Finance Ministry data revealed. The reserves saw the largest decline on record following the Bank of Japan's first ...