There are just over 2000 days until the Opening Ceremony of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and already domestic sponsorship for the event has reached a record $2.8 billion. Stock photo via https://pixabay.com/en/packs-pile-money-finance-currency-163497 ... ( read original story ...)
Dollar slides, gold edges higher after North Korea launches missile
In Asia Pacific equities, futures pointed to a lower open for Japanese stocks. Nikkei futures traded in Chicago were down 0.44 percent at 19,720 and Osaka futures were 0.34 percent lower at 19,740 by 6:24 a.m. HK/SIN. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed ... ( read original story ...)
Play suspended at Sapporo golf tournament after North Korea missile launch
Griffin was one-under going into day two of the ANA event in Sapporo when the news broke. “Well this is a first. We currently have a suspension of play in Sapporo Japan due to North Korea launching ballistic missiles,” he tweeted. As the news reached ... ( read original story ...)
Qantas to launch year-round Sydney-Osaka flights
AusBT review: Qantas Airbus A330 Business Suite business class Qantas flight QF33 will depart Sydney at 9:30am on Thursdays and Saturdays to reach Osaka at 5:25pm, while on Mondays, passengers will leave Sydney at a more leisurely 1:25pm for a 9:20pm ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese banks to end same-day personal loans
TOKYO -- Banks in Japan will tighten screening of personal-loan applications starting in January amid growing criticism that easy credit has contributed to a jump in personal bankruptcies and people struggling under heavy debt. In Japan, banks issue loan ... ( read original story ...)
Finmin signs MoU with Japan for bullet train training centre
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry today signed an agreement with Japan to set up a training institute for Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project along with others pacts, envisaging a total loan commitment of about Rs 6,000 crore. The training institute will ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama Tire Enters “The Happiest Race on Earth!”
What started as Marines racing army Jeeps in the Pacific Islands during World War II has morphed into what we know as the 2018 Yokohama National Off-Road Racing Association’s (NORRA) Mexican 1000. For 51 years, racers have pitted themselves against 1,300 ... ( read original story ...)
Stock markets vie to host Saudi’s Aramco IPO
Among Aramco’s suitors include the New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Toronto stock exchanges. The IPO could raise as much as $100 billion, a large chunk of the $132.5 billion raised globally from IPOs in 2016, according to consultancy EY. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s bullet train gives 164-year-old Indian Railways a jolt
Financing by Japan also means business farmed out to companies such as Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., Hitachi Ltd. and East Japan Railway Co. and an opportunity lost for China’s CRRC Corp Ltd. and European manufacturers including Alstom SA. For Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Japan: North Korean threat to sink Japan is ‘outrageous’
"The four islands of the (Japanese) archipelago should be sunken into the sea" by a nuclear bomb, the statement reads in part. It was distributed by the Korean Central News Agency, the state news service. North Korea often issues bellicose threats that it ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea threatens to ‘sink’ Japan and reduce U.S. to ‘ashes and darkness’
Japan is no longer needed to exist near us," the committee said in a statement carried by the North's official KCNA news agency. Juche is the North's ruling ideology that mixes Marxism and an extreme form of go-it-alone nationalism preached by state ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s smaller airports welcome Southeast Asia
The western Japanese city is known for the Atomic Bomb Dome and the ... A Hiroshima official told the Nikkei Asian Review that it had approached Southeast Asian airlines with the hope that the city would host more tourists, in addition to requests from ... ( read original story ...)
Japan aims to catch gold smugglers at airports
TOKYO -- Seeking to curb a growing outbreak of gold smuggling, Japan's Ministry of Finance will install metal detector gates at the customs areas of airports with heavy international traffic, such as Narita and Haneda. Currently, travelers entering Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Japan commission supports nuclear power despite Fukushima
TOKYO — Japan’s nuclear policy-setting Atomic Energy Commission has issued a report calling for nuclear energy to remain a key component of the country’s energy mix despite broad public support for a less nuclear-reliant society. The annual report ... ( read original story ...)
India, Japan start work on high-speed train during Abe visit
AHMADABAD, India — India and Japan have begun work on a high-speed train in the western Indian state of Gujarat, during a visit by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The "bullet" train will link Ahmadabad, the main commercial city in Indian Prime ... ( read original story ...)
India-Japan business ties are at an all-time high
New Delhi: R .C. Bhargava, chairman of India’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, fondly recounts meetings between business delegates from India and Japan over lunch with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe ... ( read original story ...)