The broader Topix ended 0.5 per cent higher at 1,889.29, its highest closing level since June 1991. TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei share average hit a 26-year high on Tuesday, helped by gains on Wall Street during a Japanese holiday, while index heavyweight Fast ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo, Yokohama warm up as Japan’s north faces blizzards, snowstorms
TOKYO - While people in Japan's north are bundled up in thick clothing as the mercury plummets, triggering weather warnings on Tuesday (Jan 9), those in Tokyo and Yokohama are feeling spring-like temperatures of 18 deg Celsius. In the capital, many among ... ( read original story ...)
Asian shares edge up, yen jumps as Bank of Japan trims bond buying
Asian shares edged higher on Tuesday, approaching record highs, while the yen stole the currency spotlight and jumped after the Bank of Japan's slight reduction to its bond purchases reminded investors that it will eventually normalize policy. MSCI's ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s central bank trims bond purchases, prompting stimulus withdrawal talk
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Speculation the Bank of Japan may slow its monetary stimulus this year gripped the currency market on Tuesday after the central bank trimmed the amount of its purchases of Japanese government bonds. While the bond-buying operations ... ( read original story ...)
Work 50 minutes for meal at Tokyo eatery
TOKYO • No money to pay for a meal? No problem - just work for 50 minutes. That is the recipe to combat hunger for Ms Sekai Kobayashi, 33, a former engineer who will not turn away penniless customers at her restaurant Mirai Shokudo (translated as Future ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks extend gains at open
In Tokyo, exporters were broadly higher, with Sony gaining 0.88 percent to 5,512 yen and Toyota trading up 0.26 percent at 7,572 yen. Banks were also higher, with Mitsubishi UFJ 0.92 percent higher at 43,000 yen and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial rising 1.08 ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka’s funky Ferris wheel reopens for first time in 9 years
(CNN) -- Most visitors to Osaka, Japan, have seen the bright yellow oblong-shaped Ferris wheel next to the famous Glico Man Sign billboard along the Dotonbori River. Few realize it's an actual ride, often mistaking it for just another wild Osaka decoration. ( read original story ...)
Japan Earthquake Today 2018 Strikes South of Tokyo
ST LOUIS (LALATE) – A Japan earthquake today 2018 has struck off the coast south of Tokyo. The Japan earthquake today is the first major quake to strike Japan this year. The Japan earthquake today January 5, 2018 began moments ago. It was a 4.5 magnitude ... ( read original story ...)
Value of Japan’s midcap stocks surged 30% in 2017
TOKYO -- Japan's midcap stocks are catching the eye of investors hoping that emerging companies can turn proprietary technology and unique business models into robust profit growth. Nikkei calculated the aggregate market capitalization of roughly 1,000 ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to set up national supplementary power capacity market
TOKYO -- Four of Japan's biggest utilities plan to jointly establish a nationwide marketplace for supplementary power to do away with the costly and fragmented auctioning system they have been using all these years. The group plans to get other regional ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei probes 26-year highs, Toshiba gains
Outperforming sectors also included iron and steel , up 2 per cent, non-ferrous metal, up 1.9 per cent,. TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei share average extended the previous session's gains on Friday, probing 26-year highs as banking and brokerage firms rose ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo opens snake café where customers can hold a reptile while they get coffee
The first permanent snake café is in Tokyo, Japan – and, while it might not be everyone’s cup of tea, for reptile lovers it could prove the ultimate chance to get up close and personal with their scaly favourites. Tokyo Snake Center in the trendy ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s love of cash is a costly business
TOKYO -- If you go out for drinks with your colleagues in Japan, chances are that you end up doing warikan at the end of the night. And the warikan, or the splitting of the bill evenly, is most likely done in cash despite almost everyone having plastic and ... ( read original story ...)
First step in changing Japan’s workaholic culture: less overtime
TOKYO — It might seem more appropriate at a children's costume party, but a purple cape has become an unlikely weapon in Japan's efforts to get its workers ... is not cool' was effective," she told NBC News. This was not a case, however, of bosses ... ( read original story ...)
30 Osaka University entrance exam takers wrongly failed
Thirty people who would have passed entrance exams to Osaka University in February 2017 were instead considered to have failed due to a mistake in a physics question and how it was marked, the university has announced. Osaka University was later twice told ... ( read original story ...)
Japan succession crisis could rip links out of auto supply chain
TOKYO -- Japanese automakers and major parts manufacturers are dealing with one headache after another. "The chief of a supplier has grown old and is less motivated, leading to product quality problems," one industry insider lamented. Another complained of ... ( read original story ...)