Itochu Corp, Tokyo Gas Co Ltd and other companies are considering bidding in the second round of the government's auction of offshore wind power projects, the Nikkei business daily reported on ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s $7 billion buyout dials up global chip wars
A government-led buyout signals more uncertainty ahead for a chip industry grappling with oversupply and geopolitics. The state-backed Japan Investment Corp will take over JSR , which makes ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Hopes 30,000 Teenagers Want to Learn to Make Electric Batteries
Japan is facing a huge shortfall in workers trained to manufacture electric batteries by 2030. In response to growing demand for electric battery production, Japan is attempting to train tens of thousands of teenagers to design and engineer them. ( read original story ...)
What Ben McKenzie Learned When He Started Investigating Crypto
When the pandemic struck in 2020, the actor Ben McKenzie (who you might know from The OC) had a lot of time on his hands. And like a lot of people, he suddenly got interested in crypto. But unlike a ...
Explainer: What would Japanese intervention to boost the weak yen look like?
Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat a continued yen fall driven by market expectations that the Bank of Japan will keep interest rates ultra-low, even as other central banks ...
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on easy monetary policy: Underlying inflation is lower than 2%
CNBC's Sara Eisen speaks with Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda and other global central bank leaders Wednesday morning at a monetary policy forum in Sintra, Portugal. Joining Ueda at the event, ...
Bank of Japan Needs More Confidence Inflation Will Stay High to Change Policy, Ueda Says
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda said he sees signs that the country’s inflation rate is heading toward target but isn’t yet confident enough to change monetary policy.
Bank of Japan chief defends monetary easing as yen keeps weakening
The chief of the Bank of Japan on Wednesday defended its policy of continuing with monetary easing as the yen briefly fell to a seven-and-a-half month low against the U.S. dollar in New York the same ...
Finance ministers of Japan and South Korea agree to resume currency swap agreement as ties warm
Japan and South Korea have agreed to revive a currency swap agreement for times of crisis. The move is the latest sign of warming ties as the countries work to smooth over historical antagonisms.
South Korea Shoppers Buy up Salt Before Japan’s Fukushima Water Dump
South Korean fisheries authorities say they will keep a close eye on salt farms for any rise in radioactivity. South Korea has banned seafood from the waters near Fukushima, on Japan's east coast. ( read original story ...)
Armed GSDF member goes missing overnight in Sapporo
A gun-carrying member of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force was briefly unaccounted for in Sapporo, northern Japan, prompting local ... ( read original story ...)
Police raid Yokohama bars suspected of conning drunk patrons; 5 arrested
Police raided several bars here on the night of June 27 over suspicions they had been making heavily inebriated customers pay for items th ... ( read original story ...)
transcosmos opens BPO Center Osaka Midosuji, a center which offers IT one-stop services
With an IT center serving bottom to upstream processes, enhances services to meet accelerating DX needs TOKYO, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- transcosmos inc. hereby announces that the company ha ... ( read original story ...)
Column: China, Japan joined at the hip in FX war
Japan and China may be signaling that they want their currencies to stop weakening too much, but the reality is depreciating exchange rates will help give Asia's economic giants the inflation and competitive edge both are currently seeking. ( read original story ...)
Japan Retail Sales Growth Accelerates; Consumer Confidence Strengthens
Despite high inflation, Japan's retail sales grew at a faster pace in May suggesting strong contribution by private consumption to ... ( read original story ...)
Man held after 18-year-old woman stabbed to death in Yokohama
The woman's family called the police when they found her collapsed and covered with blood in an apartment complex Thursday morning. ( read original story ...)