The Japanese benchmark Nikkei stock average pulled back from a more than 29-1 / 2-year high on Monday, as investors chose to turn a profit due to some concerns about overheating after five consecutive ... ( read original story ...)
BOJ Becomes Biggest Japan Stock Owner With $434 Billion Hoard
The Bank of Japan has taken over as the biggest owner of the nation’s stocks, with the total value of its holdings climbing well above $400 billion. ( read original story ...)
COVID-19 clusters break out in Japan’s coldest city as winter closes in
The emergence of Japan's coldest city as a COVID-19 hotspot has raised fears among health experts that it could be a sign of what the rest of the nation may face as winter sets in and more people stay ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Dentsu to book $842 million in restructuring costs of overseas business
Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Group Inc said on Monday it would review its overseas business and book restructuring costs of 87.6 billion yen ($842 million) for the current and next fiscal year. ( read original story ...)
‘My business is going down the drain’: Stories from residents stuck outside Japan
It’s hard to list the stories of every person still stuck outside of Japan due to the country's border policies, but two of them show just how complica ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei pulls back after hitting 29-1/2-year high
Japan's benchmark Nikkei share average pulled back from a more than 29-1/2-year high on Monday, as investors chose to pocket profits amid some concerns of overheating after five consecutive weeks of ... ( read original story ...)
LeBron, Osaka, Mahomes Among SI Sportspersons Of The Year
NBA champion LeBron James, Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes and Japan's Naomi Osaka were among five athletes honored Sunday by Sports Illustrated magazine for their off-field activism. SI's annual ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka: I don’t have that many friends on Tour
During a live session with Rich Kleiman, manager of US basketball star Kevin Durant, Osaka was asked if there's any camaraderie between players on Tour, outside of their own circles or teams ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM’s Support Slides on Coronavirus Response: Media Poll
Support for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's cabinet tumbled nearly 13 points due to dissatisfaction with the government's response to a resurgence in the coronavirus, a weekend Kyodo News ... ( read original story ...)
Control Bionics kicks off frenetic IPO week; nearly doubles on debut
The IPO of Control Bionics (ASX:CBL) was a success on its first day with the company nearly doubling. It listed at the start of a frenetic week for ASX IPOs ... ( read original story ...)
USD/JPY struggles to keep 104.00 as Nikkei 225 trims early gains
USD/JPY drops to the intraday low of 104.11as markets in Tokyo open for Monday’s trading. The yen pair justifies the recent weakness in Nikkei 225, Japan’s headline equity index, while parting ways ... ( read original story ...)
JR Tokai pins hope on Biden to push high-speed rail plan in Texas
NAGOYA--A long-delayed high-speed rail project using Japanese technology in Texas has finally cleared a major hurdle and could receive a further push by the upcoming change in the White House. The U.S ... ( read original story ...)
Spaces for living: How Tokyo’s urban landscape deals with change
If smaller fires are included, historians estimate this number skyrockets to almost 1,800 and, even today, Edo is sometimes called “kasai toshi,” or “city of fire.” As a result, much of Tokyo’s ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo is one of the three largest financial hubs in the world, but it lacks human resources and systems to match that position.
Koetsu Aizawa, a professor of international finance at Saitama Gakuen University. After a computer glitch that brought trading to a grinding halt for one full day in October exposed the Tokyo bourse's ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 4.5 earthquake strikes near Ryūgasaki, Japan
A moderately shallow magnitude 4.5 earthquake was reported early morning near Ryūgasaki, Ryūgasaki-shi, Ibaraki, Japan. According to, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan retrieves asteroid samples in hunt for origins of planets
Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia's remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation's space ... ( read original story ...)