The military has greenlighted its Osprey to return to flight, three months after a part failure led to the deaths of eight service members in a crash in Japan in November. ( read original story ...)
In Tokyo, EAM Jaishankar takes another swipe at China for skipping Global South summits
Highlighting China's absence in the two Global South summits hosted by India last year, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar took a swipe at the Asian giant on Friday saying that a lot ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks end higher on semiconductor, bank shares
TOKYO, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks ended slightly higher on Friday, as gains in the banks and semiconductors sectors led shares higher. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)
Revised Japan Q4 GDP data to show economy likely avoided recession: Reuters poll
Revised data for Japan's fourth-quarter gross domestic product will likely show that the economy avoided a technical recession thanks to companies' stronger-than-expected spending on plants and ... ( read original story ...)
Kyoto’s picturesque geisha district fights back against over-tourism with keep-out signs
Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto has long been a popular destination for tourists, but visitors will no longer be able to venture into some private-property alleys in the city's famous geisha district ... ( read original story ...)
Goldman Sachs exits Japan transaction banking, Bloomberg reports
Goldman Sachs Group Inc is exiting transaction banking in Japan, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. "We are closing Goldman Sachs Bank USA Tokyo Branch whose sole function was to support transaction ...
Abu Dhabi’s ADQ reportedly picks banks for Etihad Airways IPO
“Etihad has not yet filed for an IPO. Otherwise if one day it happens in the next three ... to its global network last year including Lisbon, Copenhagen, Kolkata and Osaka. Etihad carried 14 million ...
Goldman Sachs Exits Japan Transaction Banking in Sudden Reversal
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is exiting transaction banking in Japan, less than a year after announcing plans to enter the business of managing cash flows for big companies in the country.
Son of late Dodgers executive recalls life-changing 3/11 aid work in Japan
Ikuhara spent about three months on the ground with a nongovernmental organization helping to assess the destruction. ( read original story ...)
Unseen footage recalls 1945 firebombing of Tokyo
The Tokyo government is screening a collection of interviews of survivors for the first time to serve as a reminder of the destruction of war. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks end higher on gains in semiconductor, bank issues
Tokyo stocks ended slightly higher Friday, with the Nikkei index snapping a three-day losing streak on dip-buying of banks and semico ... ( read original story ...)
CORRECTED-Japan’s Nikkei rises as tech shares rally, banks gains on BOJ bets
The Nikkei 0.9% to 39,935.24 by the midday break. Chip-making equipment giant Tokyo Electron was up 3%, adding roughly 114 points to the Nikkei's 336.53-point gain. Chip-testing equipment maker ...
Japan’s 2-year bond yield hits 13-year high on rising bets on BOJ policy shift
Japan's two-year government bond (JGB) yield hit a 13-year high on Friday amid growing speculation that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) could exit from its negative rate policy. The two-year JGB yield, highly ...
Big Japan Trade Springs Back to Life as BOJ Rate-Hike Bets Grow
Markets are reckoning with the very real chance that the Bank of Japan will exit the world’s last remaining negative-rates regime and increase borrowing costs as soon as this month. Most Read from ...
Japan current account balance swings to ¥438 billion surplus in January
The dollar averaged ¥146.57 in January, sharply higher than ¥130.20 a year earlier, as the interest rate differential between the United States and Japan remained wide. The Bank of Japan has been an ...
Thursday Tennis: Rain suspends play again, Osaka wins in return, World No. 1 Novak Djokovic addresses media
It was another jam-packed day of tennis and more in Indian Wells on Thursday. Unfortunately, rain suspended play in the evening session yet again. #breakingnews Rain coming down in Stadium 1 ... ( read original story ...)