State Bank of India on Wednesday announced that the bank signed a loan agreement of $1 billion with Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC). The facility is co-financed by SMBC, MUFG Bank, ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo, Manila to discuss status of infra projects under BBB program
The governments of the Philippines and Japan will proceed with their high-level discussions on the progress of the Tokyo-funded infrastructure projects under the “Build, Build, Build” program despite ... ( read original story ...)
Japan, U.S., Australia to finance $30 million Palau undersea cable
Pacific infrastructure investment partnership, comes as China is seeking to increase its influence in the Pacific. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 Paralympics to feature six-strong refugee team
The International Paralympic Committee will send up to six athletes to Tokyo 2020 as part of a Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT). ( read original story ...)
Japan, US business leaders call for more efforts toward free trade
Japanese and U.S. business leaders on Wednesday called on the governments of their countries to promote policies to help strengthen t ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy asks other companies to take on idle workers: sources
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) said it has asked several other companies to temporarily employ idle workers from its factories in central Japan in a bid to cut costs and weather a downturn from ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Nomura posts drop of 51% in second-quarter profit
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s biggest brokerage and investment bank, Nomura Holdings Inc, posted on Wednesday a drop of 51.2% in second-quarter net profit on the year. July-September profit came in at ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo festival opens with grueling boxing ‘Underdog’ film
Masaharu Take’s films have always focused on painful stories about Japan's “under-class,” people who are often overlooked in a nation stereotyped as monolithically ... ( read original story ...)
Exxon, Japan’s JERA to build LNG-to-power project in Vietnam
Exxon Mobil Corp and Japan's biggest power generator, JERA, have agreed to build a power station and import facilities for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel it in the Vietnamese city of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan not eyeing new reactors to help reach 2050 carbon-neutral goal
Japan is not considering building new nuclear power plants to help it become carbon-free by 2050, the government's top spokesman said on Wednesday. For the world's fifth-biggest emitter, reining in ... ( read original story ...)
South Korea follows Japan and China in carbon neutral pledge
South Korea has become the third big Asian economy to pledge carbon neutrality, marking a big victory for environmentalists after intensifying pressure on one of the world’s biggest polluters. ( read original story ...)
Australia, Japan, U.S. to fund cable for Pacific island of Palau
The Pacific island of Palau will build an undersea telecoms cable financed by Australia, Japan and the United States in a $30-million project, Australia said on Wednesday. It is the first project ... ( read original story ...)
YTL’s Higashiyama Niseko Village in Japan will debut in December
The property boasts two distinctive restaurants – Yukibana ... It acquired 496,184 shares, representing the entire equity interest in Niseko Village, from PC One Y.K., a Japanese limited liability ... ( read original story ...)
The Japan-Korea Dispute Over the 1965 Agreement
Japan and South Korea remain embroiled in an international legal dispute over the interpretation of th. The agreement is clearly a lump-sum settlement agreement with respect to claims arising from ... ( read original story ...)
TABLE-Top Japan insurers’ investment plans for fiscal HY through March 2021
Following is a summary of the investment plans of Japan's major life insurance companies for the half year through March 2021, based on interviews with Reuters and news conferences this month. For ... ( read original story ...)
Trump Website Briefly Defaced, Promoted Crypto Scam
One of Donald Trump’s campaign websites, donaldjtrump.com, was briefly made to look like it had been seized by law enforcement Tuesday, an effort that appeared to be part of a cryptocurrency scam. ( read original story ...)