Tokyo stocks opened higher on Thursday after modest gains on Wall Street as the US central bank signalled it could soon cut interest rates. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.44 percent or 93.38 ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese companies brace for contentious AGM season
Japan’s second-biggest dairy, a global property empire and an Osaka-based paint company may not seem to have much in common. But over the past six months — with corporate Japan facing potentially the ... ( read original story ...)
Top-ranked Osaka gets 1st-round win in Birmingham on grass
BIRMINGHAM, England — A day after saying she was "not really that comfortable" playing on grass, top-ranked Naomi Osaka needed three sets to get past her first-round opponent at the Birmingham Classic ... ( read original story ...)
IOC proposes Tokyo 2020 Games boxing plan without AIBA
"To allow the athletes a second chance to qualify for Tokyo we will have a final Olympic qualifying event probably in May next year," IOC sports director Kit McConnell told a news conference. ... ( read original story ...)
BOJ official warns of rise in property-sector lending
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s property market has yet to show signs of over-heating but warrants attention as financial institutions are increasing their lending to the sector, a senior central bank ... ( read original story ...)
Could sex tourism save Japan’s small towns from disappearing?
Sex tourism certainly isn’t the only way of distributing tourists around Japan – other, more palatable projects have seen success. In Yoshino, a town with only 6,700 residents in Nara prefecture, a ... ( read original story ...)
Strong earthquake strikes northwest Japan, triggers small tsunami
A strong earthquake struck Japan’s northwest coast around Niigata prefecture triggering a small tsunami, shaking buildings and cutting power to around 9,000 buildings. ( read original story ...)
Japan rejects Korean fund plan to compensate forced wartime labor
Speaking at a regular news conference before the South Korean announcement, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga repeated Tokyo's call to refer the dispute to an international arbitration ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Exports Slump, Hopes Turn to Trump-Xi
The unsurprising drop serves as a reminder of a headwind buffeting the Bank of Japan, which meets to set policy on Thursday. The latest bad news on Japan’s economy came just after things were looking ... ( read original story ...)
The Okura Tokyo to Offer “Okura Fitness & Spa ANNAYAKE”
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hotel Okura Tokyo Co., Ltd. today announced that The Okura Tokyo, due to open on September 12 2019, will offer among its many guest amenities the “Okura Fitness & Spa ANNAYAKE” ... ( read original story ...)
Japan exports slide for 6th month as trade troubles knock demand, weaken outlook
Sluggish exports have been a source of concern among Japanese policymakers, especially as a bruising U.S.-China tariff war has upended supply chains and hit global growth, trade and investment. "The ... ( read original story ...)
Japan wraps everything in plastic. Now it wants to fight against plastic pollution.
Japan’s obsession with hygiene combined with its pride in ... On the other side lies the immovable force of the country’s business community, intertwined with the ruling party and the powerful ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s MHLW Approves Invivoscribe’s LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay as the CDx for Daiichi Sankyo’s …
At the same time the Japanese MHLW added approval in use of EDTA collection tubes to the existing approval of heparin collection tubes used with this assay. The QuANTUM-R study demonstrated that ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Abe in hot seat after pension report highlights an ‘inconvenient truth’
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faced stiff opposition criticism on Wednesday after a report warned that many retirees won't be able to live on pensions alone, a topic likely to ... ( read original story ...)
Japan revises law to ban parents from physically punishing children: Report
Japan has seen a string of high-profile abuse deaths in the past two years. On Feb 7, Kyodo news reported that the number of child abuse victims hit a record high of more than 80,104 in 2018. In March ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 1-Japan rejects Korean fund plan to compensate forced wartime labour
Speaking at a regular news conference before the South Korean announcement, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga repeated Tokyo's call to refer the dispute to an international arbitration ... ( read original story ...)