Category: FINANCE

Japan to raise tariffs if data shows import surge in June * Tariff increase depends on import data due out on Friday * Finance ministry could make announcement on Monday (Adds government, U.S. industry comment and import figures) TOKYO, July 27 (Reuters ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, July 27 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average inched up on Thursday, underpinned by a rally in riskier assets globally and a sharp jump in game maker Nintendo after it posted stronger-than-expected profits. The Nikkei ended 0.2 percent higher at ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – Prosecutors on Thursday summoned the former chief ... following negotiations with the Finance Ministry’s local bureau. Abe’s wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned to be build on the land, but the prime minister has ... ( read original story ...)

The special investigative unit of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office searched ... complaint of breach of trust in connection with suspicions that a worker at the Finance Ministry's Kinki Local Finance Bureau sold land to Moritomo Gakuen at ... ( read original story ...)

But he started having troubles in February, amid suggestions that his and his wife’s support for a right-wing kindergarten in Osaka — one that had been ... That, combined with a financial scandal involving one of his ministers, led to Abe’s abrupt ... ( read original story ...)

Both carriers increased their net and operational profitability year-over-year relative to Q4 2016 and generated operating margins of better than 19% in what is usually the second strongest financial quarter ... X (Kuala Lumpur via Osaka), and recently ... ( read original story ...)

HIROSHIMA--Plaintiffs seeking to overturn the government's decision to deny high school tuition subsidies to a Korean school here are hoping for better luck as an Osaka court hands ... s “unjust control,” public financial aid could be used for purposes ... ( read original story ...)