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Pressure from outside Japan is also growing. From 2026, U.S. proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) will recommend against the reelection of outside directors overseeing audit ...

TOKYO] Japan’s Nikkei share average ended at a nearly three-week high on Tuesday (Mar 18), tracking Wall Street’s overnight gains, driven by trading firms. Read more at The Business Times.

Following its third rate increase in January, the Bank of Japan held its key short-term interest rate steady at around 0.5% during its March meeting, as anticipated. The policymakers emphasized its ...

Shares rose sharply in their trading debut after parent Eneos Holdings spun off its metals subsidiary through an initial public offering of about $3 billion which is the biggest in Japan in more than ...

The IPO is the largest on the Japanese market since the $23.5bn float of SoftBank’s telecoms arm in late 2018 and tops the $2.3bn raised in October by Tokyo Metro, the capital’s subway operator.

Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday morning, lifted by a weaker yen supporting exporters and the Bank of Japan's decision to keep interest ra ...

Rising odds of the Japanese central bank raising interest rates have helped push the yen 5 per cent higher against the dollar ...

Japan's central bank kept its key policy rate steady at 0.5% at Wednesday's conclusion of a two-day meeting. The move, which was in line with market expectations, comes ahead of the U.S. Federal ...

The Japanese central bank held monetary settings steady, taking a breather after raising its policy rate to the highest level in over 16 years at the previous meeting.

The move was widely expected, with economists all but unanimous in seeing back-to-back rate increases as unlikely from the central bank, which made one in January.

TOKYO] The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Wednesday, underscoring policymakers’ preference to spend more time gauging how mounting global economic risks from higher US tariffs could ...