Category: FINANCE

TOKYO May 9 Policymakers must seek ways to put the wall of money printed by central banks to better use to foster growth, such as prompting financial institutions to lend more to innovative industries with potential, Japan's top financial regulator said on ... ( read original story ...)

Mitsubishi UFJ is the biggest Japanese retail and corporate bank with an important international corporate banking organization particularly strong in East Asia and the US. In terms of price earnings, Mitsubishi, as the rest of Japanese banks, is ... ( read original story ...)

The Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s (MUFG) Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Japan’s largest bank, has reportedly begun issuing MUFG coin, its own digital currency to its employees this month. Japan’s biggest banking corporation is on its way to ... ( read original story ...)

* Bank of Japan emerging as main source of affordable funding for government * Structural factors weighing on net savings rates will constrain private sector's capacity to fund new government debt in future * Share of its government bond market will ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA -- Thailand's central bank chief said Saturday he welcomed moves to wean Southeast Asia off its reliance on the U.S. dollar, as Japanese representatives put forward a bilateral currency swap proposal on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata said on Tuesday the central bank was conducting a study of how it could end its massive monetary stimulus in the future, but acknowledged it was still far from achieving its inflation target. Iwata, speaking ... ( read original story ...)

According to CNBC, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda explained that he is seeing shifts in the country’s labor market, and that could augur good things for the Japanese economy. I certainly hope so, for the sake of workers in Japan. Because the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 9 Japanese equities dipped on Tuesday as the market ran out of puff after rallying to a 17-month high the previous day, though it was supported well by a confluence of factors like the significantly weaker yen. The Nikkei share average edged ... ( read original story ...)

Japan cannot afford to sit on the sidelines. If North Korea continues provoking tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese government will face the daunting task of evacuating nearly 60,000 of its citizens currently in South Korea. Some 38,000 Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 8 Japan's Nikkei share average hit a level not seen in nearly 17 months on Monday morning as the yen stayed weak after Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France, as a business-friendly vision of European integration helped boost investor ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +1.81% rose 1.8% in early trade to its highest level since mid-December. The index was also playing catch-up with other markets in the region, having been shut since Wednesday for public holidays. The Topix bank ... ( read original story ...)

The site of an elementary school Moritomo Gakuen had planned to open in April 2017 is seen in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. (Mainichi) A Finance Ministry senior official acknowledged on May 8 that an audio recording from 2016 of a meeting between Yasunori ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- North Korea's increased aggression has spurred Japan to begin revamping outdated evacuation measures against possible missile attacks. Though questions remain concerning these procedures, the steps being taken are welcome indeed. It was only in ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA -- Japan and China held high-level talks on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank's annual meeting on Saturday to discuss the bad loan situation in China and bilateral cooperation in Asia. Taro Aso, Japan's deputy prime minister and finance ... ( read original story ...)

"We actively exchanged views on economic and financial situations in Japan and China and our cooperation in the financial field," Aso told reporters after the meeting, which included senior finance ministry and central bank officials. "It was significant ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan Japan will provide $40 million to the Asian Development Bank to promote high-level technology as part of efforts to boost quality infrastructure in Asia, Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Saturday. "Japan has been promoting quality ... ( read original story ...)