NEW YORK Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said there was no quick fix for the country's tattered finances, shrugging off the chance the central bank would resort to "helicopter money" - or direct underwriting of public debt to fund government spending. ( read original story ...)
Japan's Sawai Pharma to buy US generics maker
OSAKA -- Sawai Pharmaceutical will buy the generics business of U.S. drugmaker Upsher-Smith Laboratories for $1.05 billion, the Japanese company said Thursday, eager to make up for lost time after its first push into the American market stalled. ( read original story ...)
Yokohama Geolandar tyres for Mazda CX-5
Yokohama Rubber said its Geolandar G98 tyre has been adopted ... company profiles and extended news coverage - just for premium members. Today I can offer you 30 days access for $1 - and that includes just-auto plus. ( read original story ...)
Japan panel endorses Emperor Akihito's abdication
TOKYO - A Japanese government panel has endorsed Emperor Akihito's apparent desire to abdicate but avoided a key question of succession amid a declining royal population. The six-member advisory panel in its final report Friday proposed Akihito abdicate ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's Mitsui Life shifting to euro bonds from dollar due to hedging costs
told a news conference. Japanese investors have stepped up buying of foreign bonds in recent years as an alternative to low-yielding domestic bonds. In the last financial year ended in March, Japanese insurers bought a record 7.76 trillion yen ($71.2 ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's PM Abe sends an offering to Yasukuni shrine for war dead – Kyodo
... a controversial shrine to Japan's war dead seen in China and the two Koreas as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, a move likely to spark protest, Kyodo news agency reported. The offering at the Yasukuni Shrine spring festival came as Japan seeks ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese City Govt Accepts Bitcoin to Preserve Famed Historic Park
Japan’s national public broadcaster also adds that officials ... Blockchain technology behind bitcoin sounds interesting. Last year, I saw several news articles such as “stores that install bitcoin payment (Coincheck Payment) reached over 260,000 ... ( read original story ...)
TSE chief makes pilgrimage for massive Aramco IPO
The selection process has likely already gotten into full swing. This month, Aramco's IPO team visited Japan, where it apparently heard such pro-TSE arguments as the depth of the market's retail investor base. Meanwhile, in China, government funds and ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Post considers multi-billion dollar Toll Group writedown
Those failings, say brokers, have been reflected in Japan Post Holdings’ share price — trading 6 per cent below its IPO price of ¥1,400 per share. The 2015 IPO was the first of an estimated three tranches of government sales of shares in Japan Post ... ( read original story ...)
Ghostly Tokyo: the vengeful spirits who haunt the city, and where to go to feel their wrath
Central Tokyo’s Otemachi financial district is a forest of towers that sits on some of the world’s most valuable real estate, so it’s a surprise to come across a plot inhabited by no more than a few maples, some neat topiary and a small stele atop a ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka cops: Body believed to be ex-yakuza found at residence
Osaka Prefectural Police believe that a body discovered buried at a property in Izumi City belongs to a former gang member, reports NHK (Apr. 20). On Wednesday, police searched the property, located in the Kuzunohacho area, and found the body of an adult ... ( read original story ...)
Abe sends offering to shrine honoring Japan's war dead
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni shrine that honors Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals. The leafy "masakaki" plant was sent for the shrine's spring festival the same day that ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's PM sends offering to war shrine
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent an offering to a controversial shrine to Japan's war dead, a move likely to spark protest, Kyodo news agency reports. The offering at the Yasukuni Shrine spring festival came as Japan seeks greater co-operation ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's Abe Sends Offering to Yasukuni Imperial War Shrine
... shrine to Japan’s war dead seen in China and the two Koreas as a symbol of Japan's past brutality and militarism, a move likely to spark protest, Kyodo news agency reported. The offering at the Yasukuni Shrine spring festival came as Japan seeks ... ( read original story ...)
Thieves grab $3.5 million in cash in brazen Japan mugging
TOKYO: Three masked robbers snatched a suitcase stuffed with millions of dollars in cash from a businessman who had just withdrawn the money from a bank in western Japan on Thursday, police said. In the audacious daylight mugging, assailants set upon the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to Provide New Equipment to Firefighters in Armenia
Armenian Minister of Emergency Affairs Davit Tonoyan today met with a delegation from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and discussed various joint grant projects now underway, focusing on one designed to improve the equipment used by ... ( read original story ...)