Category: FINANCE

The U.S. airlines' departure is a warning flag to Japan, which still aims to be the gateway to the Asia-Pacific region. Nikkei staff writer Kim Jaewon in Seoul contributed to this story. ( read original story ...)

As a Japanese executive, who worked 23 years for U.S investment bank Goldman Sachs, I have always been puzzled by how few Japanese rise to the top ranks of foreign firms in Japan. In posts where dealing directly with Japanese clients is the key to success ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will team with the U.K. to develop an air-to-air missile, Tokyo's first defense equipment project with a partner other than the U.S. and a potential turning point for the country's arms export policy. The planned weapon will incorporate a ... ( read original story ...)

The head of the Japanese central bank’s payments department doesn’t see digital currencies like bitcoin replacing physical cash anytime in the near future. Speaking at a FinTech forum in Tokyo on Wednesday, Bank of Japan (BOJ) senior official Hiromi ... ( read original story ...)

Hiromi Yamaoka believes digital currency solutions are not yet mature enough to replace physical money, even if the banking industry is increasingly looking to modern technology. Banking has been transformed over the last two decades, for customers and the ... ( read original story ...)

A former industrial city and one-time financial centre, Osaka has evolved to become a popular tourist destination, offering great food and shopping, as well as rich culture. Tourists were also quoted as saying that Tokyo is a little too busy, and Osaka ... ( read original story ...)

Vietnam’s Central Bank, located in Hanoi (Photo credit: Shutterstock) A 1897 Coinage Law made Japan an Asian economic trail blazer. It became the first nation to adopt a gold standard. The law made Japan’s currency, called the Yen, fixed at 0.75 gram ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Twenty-three companies are planning initial public ... says Tomohiro Suzuki, head of IPO support at auditing company KPMG Azsa. The TSE will continue to ask securities underwriters to help ease the IPO rush in December. Absorption of investor ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Nikkei share average rose to a near two-week high on Wednesday, buoyed by gains in large-cap stocks such as SoftBank and Fanuc, and financial companies as global growth hopes lifted the mood across world markets. The Nikkei ended 0.5 per cent ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Financial technology is fast revolutionizing the banking industry but digital currencies will not replace physical money any time soon, a senior Bank of Japan (BOJ) official said on Wednesday. “It’s too far off,” Hiromi Yamaoka ... ( read original story ...)

Image credit: Masaru Ikeda See the original story in Japanese. Tokyo-based Xenodata Lab., the Japanese startup developing an AI-powered finance data analytics leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP), announced today that it has raised 250 million yen ... ( read original story ...)

Capital and Business Alliance with xenodata lab. We, Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings, Inc. (hereafter referred to as "the Company"), are pleased to announce that we have entered into the capital and business alliance with xenodata lab., Inc. (hereafter ... ( read original story ...)

* Says co has been offering the service “TT Flash”, which is designed to work as an automated financial analyzer using xenodata lab’s unique AI technique, at Tokai Tokyo Securities since November and co also introduced xenodata lab’s another ... ( read original story ...)

Shares in Japanese restaurant group RE&S Holdings, which operates brands such as Kuishin Bo, jumped as much as 64 percent above the IPO price in Wednesday's debut. At 0640 GMT, RE&S was up 55 percent at S$0.34 on the Singapore Exchange compared to its IPo ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese used-clothing retailers are keen to increase exports to Southeast Asia. The companies buy unneeded clothes from consumers and resell them at their stores -- which used to be mainly in Japan. Lately, however, they are finding that ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Since a Dentsu ad agency employee's suicide in 2015 was ruled death by overwork, the Japanese government has implemented ... Has any of this made a difference? In a Nikkei Inc. poll of business leaders last year, 76.7% of the 164 respondents ... ( read original story ...)