TOKYO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average inched up on Friday with the market apparently unruffled by North Korea’s ballistic missile launch, wih the dollar remaining relatively stable against the yen despite Pyongyang’s latest challenge. ( read original story ...)
Japanese companies hold off on floating bonds
TOKYO -- Major Japanese enterprises including the NTT group and Ricoh have decided to postpone bond issuances, gauging the yields they are willing to offer as too low for investors amid a flight to safety. NTT Finance, which handles fund procurement for ... ( read original story ...)
Japan, India reinforce bulwark against China
GANDHINAGAR, India -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian counterpart Narendra Modi reaffirmed the bilateral security and infrastructure collaboration aimed at countering China's territorial encroachment during their meeting here Thursday. ( read original story ...)
NIKKEI : U.S., Asian shares dip after North Korean missile launch
Japan's Nikkei ticked up 0.1 percent. Japan said the North Korean missile fell into sea about 2,000 km (1,240 miles) east of Hokkaido. The launch came just days after the U.N. Security Council approved new sanctions against Pyongyang for its Sept. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 Domestic Sponsorship Already Hits Record
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 ...)