TOKYO — A quarterly survey by the Bank of Japan shows business sentiment among large manufacturers has brightened since late last year. The "tankan" report released Monday put sentiment among big manufacturers at 12, up from 10 in December. The outlook ... ( read original story ...)
Japan business mood brightens as recovery broadens – BOJ tankan
TOKYO, April 3 (Reuters) - Japanese big manufacturers' business sentiment improved for a second straight quarter to hit a one-and-a-half year high in March, a closely watched central bank survey showed, a sign the benefits of an export-driven economic ... ( read original story ...)
Black Back For More In Osaka Hai
Newly promoted to Grade I status, Hanshin’s Osaka Hai was rewarded with a first-class winner in the 2016 Horse of the Year Black Kitasan (JPN) (Black Tide {JPN}), whose long-term aim this season is a trip to Chantilly to take on Europe’s finest in the ... ( read original story ...)
Minimalist hotel targets tourists at Kansai International Airport
OSAKA – A hotel with 153 high-end capsule-type guest rooms ... offers two types of rooms — one dubbed “first class” with 4.4 sq. meters of floor space and a “business class” room about half that size. Though the rooms are much more spacious ... ( read original story ...)
Japan wades into crowdfunding world
TOKYO -- Fintech is changing the way companies around the world finance operations and make investments. In Japan, a growing number are turning to the web to raise capital needed for developing new products and services, with crowdfunding in particular ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's BTMU bank mulls fee hike for big clients amid negative interest rates
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU), a core unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) , is in talks with its big corporate customers on potential fee hikes, in a bid to pass on some of the costs of negative interest rates. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s first outdoor Legoland park opens in Nagoya
NAGOYA – Japan’s first outdoor Legoland park opened in Nagoya on Saturday, raising hopes that more tourists will visit the area and deliver an economic boom to the nation’s third-largest business region. With children’s tickets priced higher than ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's latest fashion trend: outer lingerie
On the sidewalks of Japanese cities, 20- and 30-something women can be seen sporting this new gear. The appeal of putting these clothes over -- rather than under -- most of the rest of an outfit seems to rest in their being ... let's call it cute. ( read original story ...)
Both the most expensive, cheapest cities in the…
Private equity pouring in Mumbai's afluent Napean Sea area. Image:... Dotonbori, a popular nightlife and entertainment area in Osaka, Japan. Asian cities lorded over the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Worldwide Cost of Living report, out last week. ( read original story ...)
Japan-Saudi ties strengthen after King Salman’s visit
offering such encouragement as that the TSE is one of the highly probable IPO venues to sell shares in Aramco. Only six foreign companies are currently listed on the TSE, a drop from more than 100 during Japan’s late-1980s asset-inflated economic growth ... ( read original story ...)
Medals for 2020 Tokyo Olympics to be made of recycled metal
TOKYO -- Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have begun collecting discarded electronic devices that will be used in the production of the medals to be awarded to athletes. Japanese Olympic swimmer Takeshi Matsuda and Paralympian Takuro Yamada attended a ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's go AI program shows progress despite losses
The players faced off in a round robin at the Japanese go organization Nihon Ki-in's Osaka headquarters on March 21-23, with the cooperation of Nikkei Inc. South Korea's Park Jeong-hwan came out the winner, prevailing in all three matches. "The toughest ... ( read original story ...)
Tight Japanese labor market constricting growth
TOKYO -- Despite a tightening job market that is putting upward pressure on wages, growth in Japan remains stubbornly slow as a labor shortage constrains business activity while part-timers and temps hesitate to loosen their purse strings. The unemployment ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan Holds the Accommodative Line While Inflation Remains Sub-2%
The Japanese Yen has been on somewhat of a rollercoaster ever since Presidential Elections in the United States. After a rather consistent run of weakness against the Greenback in the month and a half after the start of the ‘Trump Bump’, USD/JPY ... ( read original story ...)
JAPAN: Nikkei corrects -0.8% overnight as USD backs off vs Yen
10:33a APAC Closing Prices: #ASX 5864.90 -0.53% #NIKKEI 18909.26 -0.81% #HSI 24111.5.. 10:13a Toshiba offered $17.9 billion for chip unit by Silver Lake and Broadcom: Nikk.. 09:59a Asian Market Update: #Nikkei drops to over 7-week closing low as investors lo. ( read original story ...)
Big in Japan? Hope at home for Toshiba's nuclear arm after U.S. debacle
TOKYO The bankruptcy of Westinghouse Electric Co may be a blow to Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) international nuclear ambitions, but the Japanese conglomerate still has a profitable business at home. Toshiba, whose businesses range from memory chips to rail ... ( read original story ...)