TOKYO - Overwhelmed by unprecedented demand ... let down last month when they came away empty-handed in a lottery for next year's Olympics. The bad news is that - despite a last-minute change of plans ... ( read original story ...)
Five things to know about Japan’s upper house election
TOKYO -- The campaign for Japan's upper house election officially ... Some 55% of respondents to the latest Nikkei-TV Tokyo survey said they want the ruling coalition to retain control of the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Nikkei gains on Fed rate cut hopes
Headline indices of the Japan share market advanced on Thursday, 04 July 2019, on tracking solid gains on Wall Street overnight as data pointed to slowing economic growth in the United States, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan weather warning: Flood alert sees one million evacuated – 20 inches of rain to fall
Japanese authorities have urged more than one million people across the Japanese Island of Kyushu to evacuate due to heavy rain which poses a threat to life. Residents in parts of Kagoshima and ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks close higher after Wall Street records
Tokyo stocks closed higher on Thursday, taking a positive lead from record-setting gains on Wall Street, with investors waiting for the release of US unemployment figures. The benchmark Nikkei 225 ... ( read original story ...)
Whale meat fetches ‘celebration prices’ after Japanese hunt
TOKYO -- Chunks of meat from the first whales caught since Japan resumed commercial whaling this week have fetched "celebration prices" at auction. The meat sold Thursday for up to 15,000 yen ($140) ... ( read original story ...)
Japan upper house poll begins, Abe’s constitutional reform hopes at stake
Abe is also highlighting his call to revise the post-war constitution to further legitimize Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF), as its military is known. "We have pledged in our party platform to ... ( read original story ...)
Japan service sector growth picks up in welcome boost for strained economy: PMI
TOKYO (Reuters) - Activity in Japan's services sector expanded at a slightly faster pace in June than the previous month, a business survey showed on Wednesday, suggesting domestic demand remains ... ( read original story ...)
Japan-South Korea Feud Takes Dangerous Turn as Trump Stays Quiet
Yonhap News reported, citing a government official. The U.S. helped broker the 1965 treaty establishing ties between Japan and South Korea that included a payment from Tokyo of about $300 million ... ( read original story ...)
Japan offers to be ‘honest broker’ for Palestinian-Israeli peace
“We can play an honest broker in the Middle East, as we have no colonial history or negative footprint in the region,” he told Arab News in a wide-ranging interview at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in ... ( read original story ...)
Heavy rain in south Japan, over 1 million directed to leave
TOKYO -- Japanese authorities on Wednesday directed more than 1 million residents in parts of the southern main island of Kyushu to evacuate to designated shelters as heavy rains batter the region, ... ( read original story ...)
In Japan, a whole city of 600,000 people was ordered evacuated amid hard rain
Japan’s southern city of Kagoshima on Wednesday ordered its nearly 600,000 residents to take shelter in evacuation centres and other safe areas as torrential rains threatened landslides and ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympic stadium 90% complete; opening set for December
But Tokyo is spending at least $20 billion to get ready, 70% of which is taxpayers' money. (This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s Olympic stadium 90% finished, set to open in December
With the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics a little over a year away ... news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and ... ( read original story ...)
IPOs in Japan almost flat in January-June period
They included an IPO by Sansan Inc., a business card management service firm ... This year’s number is likely to be roughly the same as in recent years, Nagata said. Japan is considering imposing ... ( read original story ...)
Japan says curbs on exports to SKorea due to broken pledge
TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday that Japan cannot give South Korean exports preferential treatment because the country is not abiding by an agreement regarding wartime issues that ... ( read original story ...)