Category: BUSINESS

Japan’s biggest steelmaker has warned it will push through more price rises, in a blow to car makers and machinery industries already grappling with surging costs. Nippon Steel will need to pass on ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his visiting Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong pledged to work together to preserve regional peace and stability at their summit on Thursday (May 26). ( read original story ...)

Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday the country's core consumer inflation will likely remain around the central bank's 2% target for 12 months unless energy prices drop sharply. ( read original story ...)

Nippon Steel Corp, the world's No.5 steelmaker, expects its seamless pipe business will return to a profit this year from a loss last year as gas drilling activity is on the rise to meet higher demand ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will allow foreign tourists on package tours from June 10, reopening tourism, suspended for more than two years after the pandemic gripped the globe. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will open its borders to foreign tourists in June for the first time since imposing tight pandemic travel restrictions about two years ago, but only for package tours for now, the prime minister ... ( read original story ...)

More than 1 million have died from COVID in the US. In Japan? Just over 30,000. Here are a few thoughts on that. ( read original story ...)

Troubled Japanese technology giant Toshiba has announced some additions to its proposed leadership ahead of a shareholders’ meeting next month. ( read original story ...)

Japan is set to admit some package tourists from overseas starting June 6, broadcaster TV Asahi reported Thursday, in the latest step to ease controls that were introduced in a bid to limit the spread ... ( read original story ...)

US Prez Joe Biden announced that 13 countries have joined a new, US-led Asia-Pacific trade initiative touted as a counterweight to China's aggressive expansion ... ( read original story ...)

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People run with Tokyo's business district in the background, in Tokyo, Japan, April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon TOKYO (Reuters) - An index measuring prices Japanese firms ... ( read original story ...)

Japan plans to call for moving ahead with a new "green" gross domestic product (GDP) indicator that will reflect the country's progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a draft of its annual ... ( read original story ...)

The change of government in Australia presents the perfect opportunity to work on making our relationship with Japan deeper and richer. ( read original story ...)

Zakharova criticised Tokyo for clinging to these already traditional training events, distorting their goals and content, and wrongly linking them with Russia's special military operation in Ukraine ... ( read original story ...)

Daiwa Securities Group Inc expects its M&A advisory revenue to grow more than 40 per cent as soon as in a few years, its CEO told Reuters, as Japan's second-largest brokerage and investment bank ... ( read original story ...)

Japan plans to use its new type of sovereign debt to fund a wide range of projects designed to reduce emissions, possibly including nuclear power.  We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try ... ( read original story ...)