Category: FINANCE

Japan is at the bottom of the list ... chief executive officer at the Thai Institute of Directors and a former deputy governor of the Bank of Thailand. Norway and Sweden, like other countries in Europe and elsewhere, have enacted laws requiring companies ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO—Japan’s consumer prices rose for the first time in more than a year in January as rising global oil prices gave Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Bank of Japan a helping hand in their campaign to overcome deflation. The fractional increase in ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- A Tokyo Metropolitan Government panel is discussing steps aimed at reclaiming the Japanese capital's status as Asia's top financial center, including making the tax system more hospitable to foreign financial institutions. The effort is being ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Friday rejected U.S. demands for more access to Japan's auto market, saying the government has already taken steps to eliminate tariffs and non-tariff barriers. The rebuff by the government's top spokesman came in reply to a ... ( read original story ...)

The bank hopes the system can help it to drastically broaden its fee-paying customer base. For instance, were Rakuten, an online retail emporium that is big in Japan, to become a client, SMFG and Daon would suddenly have more than 100 million "users." ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan rejected U.S. demands for more access to Japan's car market on Friday, casting doubt over whether it can avoid friction over autos and agriculture imports at high level bilateral talks on economic relations next month. The joint ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Exchange Group's Akira Kiyota plans to meet with senior ... By comparison, the Saudi exchange has a total market capitalization of somewhat more than $400 billion. The proposed IPO would necessarily involve a multiple listing. The TSE has no shortage ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp's Westinghouse unit needs to decide by the end of the month whether to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy so the Japanese conglomerate can compile audited third-quarter earnings without further delays, Japan's Finance Minister ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, March 9 Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Thursday, benefitting from a weaker yen after the dollar gained when U.S. jobs data cemented expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve is poised to raise interest rates next week. The Nikkei was up 0.15 ... ( read original story ...)

Taro Aso, Japan's finance minister and deputy prime minister, and Vice President Mike Pence, who is expected to visit Japan next month, will lead the bilateral talks. A spokeswoman at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo said the embassy was not in a position to comment. ( read original story ...)

Osaka Prefecture will reject Moritomo Gakuen’s application to open an elementary school on state-owned land bought in a dodgy deal, saying the school operator submitted false figures in documents to inflate its financial standing. Moritomo Gakuen plans ... ( read original story ...)

Fixing a rotten banking sector requires policy makers to deploy three tools in unison -- and Italy, like Japan two decades ago, is in danger of coming up short. In addition to prompt recapitalization and robust, independent supervision, reviving lenders ... ( read original story ...)

Mar.07 -- The governor of Tokyo has scored several "firsts." Yuriko Koike is the first woman to have been Japan's defense minister and the first to contest the leadership of Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party. She's popular among voters, and seen as a ... ( read original story ...)

Has Japan finally overcome the trauma of its two lost decades? The stock market seems to think so. In February, the Nikkei Jasdaq Index, the Japanese equivalent of America's Nasdaq, hit an all-time high in U.S. dollar terms. This may not seem like a big ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, March 8 Japan's Nikkei share average eased slightly for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday, as investors took caution ahead of the U.S. jobs report due at the end of the week. The Nikkei dropped 0.5 percent to 19,240.95 points in midmorning trade. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will consider letting foreign farming specialists work outside its national strategic zones, expanding a current plan to bolster a shrinking farm workforce. With its agricultural population on the decline, Japan needs to put foreigners to ... ( read original story ...)