In Japan, a month after Valentine’s Day, partners who received gifts in February are expected to give on White Day. ( read original story ...)
Japan: Where more regulation leads to higher stock prices
Regulation designed to create more transparency and reduce systemic risk has routed trading activity away from opaque over-the-counter markets managed by banks and into clearinghouses, mostly owned by ...
Asia stocks bide time ahead of US data; Nikkei bruised by BOJ pivot bets
Asian shares held near seven-month highs on Thursday though traded mostly sideways as investors awaited fresh catalysts that would provide further clarity on the global interest rate easing cycle.
Japan stocks higher at close of trade; Nikkei 225 up 0.46%
Japan stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Insurance, Real Estate and Fishery sectors led shares higher.At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 gained 0.46%.The best ...
Japan courts again say same-sex marriage ban is illegal
Two more rulings in Japanese district courts have added weight to the push for same-sex marriage to be legalised. This week, courts in Tokyo and Sapporo ruled the nation's current ban was ... ( read original story ...)
Japan high court says denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, calls for urgent government action for redress
Japan high court says denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, calls for urgent government action for redress ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s PCG to reopen fund for luxury Japan ski resort as weak yen beckons
Patience Capital Group, the Singapore-based investor behind a $1.42 billion luxury ski project in northern Japan, is in talks to reopen its fund to new investors eager to get in before tightening by ... ( read original story ...)
Japan high court says same-sex marriage bar is unconstitutional
Japan's bar on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, the high court in the northern region of Sapporo said on Thursday, the first such ruling by an appeals court on a matter that has divided the ... ( read original story ...)
KKR Is Keen to Buy Japan Real Estate Even After BOJ Raises Rates
KKR & Co. plans to keep buying real estate assets in Japan even if the central bank raises interest rates for the first time since 2007. ( read original story ...)
A US$6 billion tender offer key to Japan’s chip ambitions is slated to begin next week
A JAPANESE state-backed investment vehicle is going ahead with its US$6 billion buyout of chipmaking materials linchpin JSR, after securing assurances of China’s approval for a deal that Tokyo sees as ...
Joe Biden to raise concern over Nippon Steel’s deal for US Steel, source says
U.S. alliance is stronger than ever, and the two countries will continue to work together … in the field of economic security," Hayashi, chief cabinet secretary, told reporters on Thursday, echoing ...
Japan’s Nikkei reverses course to end higher as chip stocks narrow losses
Japan's Nikkei share average changed course to end higher on Thursday, as heavyweight chip-related stocks narrowed early losses and energy shares gained. The Nikkei closed 0.29% higher at 38,807.38, ...
Asian markets mixed mirroring weak global sentiment, Nikkei index snaps three-day decline
The index rose, reversing losses from earlier in the session and breaking three consecutive days of losses. Japan’s 10-year government bond yield rose ...
These Will Be the Winners and Losers When Bank of Japan Ditches Negative Rates
The Bank of Japan’s steady march toward raising interest rates for the first time since 2007 begs the question of who will win and who will lose after years of massive stimulus and ultra-low borrowing ...
‘Disappointed before’, but structural shifts make Japan ‘extremely interesting’: Bank of Singapore, Morgan Stanley CIOs
There are real positive fundamental differences between the Japan we know today versus Japan that we knew five to 10 years ago.” ...
Hokkaido ranch operator in abuse suit admits to paying disabled workers in snacks, juice
A ranch operator in northern Japan's Hokkaido admitted in court on March 12 that they had not paid intellectually disabled workers for deca ... ( read original story ...)