He was speaking on Tuesday at FIN/SUM, a conference in Tokyo jointly organized by NIKKEI and Japan's Financial Service Agency. According to a review of global fintech hubs released by Deloitte in April, Tokyo trails Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney in the ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei falls as geopolitical fears on North Korea sap risk appetite
TOKYO, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average fell in choppy trade early on Friday, moving away from two-year highs as rising geopolitical tensions over North Korea sapped risk appetite. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported North Korean ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei probes more than 2-year highs as yen eases; Apple suppliers fall
Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Thursday, boosted by gains on Wall Street and a weaker yen after the Federal Reserve signalled it still expects to raise interest rates one more time this year. The Nikkei was up 0.8 per cent at the end of morning ... ( read original story ...)
Japan stocks higher at close of trade; Nikkei 225 up 0.18%
Investing.com – Japan stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Mining and Communication sectors led shares higher. At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 added 0.18% to hit a new 52-week high. ( read original story ...)
Stocks – Nikkei Edges Higher In Mixed Asian Share Trade On Fed Views, BoJ
Investing.com - Shares in Asia were mixed on Thursday with the market digesting the Fed views on rates and the latest Bank of Japan review. The Nikkei 225 rose 0.47%, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell 1.09%. In Greater China, the Hang Seng index inched up ... ( read original story ...)
Why Japan doesn’t want to sign nuclear arms ban treaty
TOKYO -- Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks, has repeatedly called for a global ban on nuclear weapons. Yet it sided with the nuclear powers and NATO in refusing to sign a treaty to ban such weapons during the UN General Assembly ... ( read original story ...)
AP Explains: Why Japan doesn’t sign nuclear arms ban treaty
Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks, has repeatedly called for a global ban on nuclear weapons. Yet it sided with the nuclear powers and NATO in refusing to sign a treaty to ban such weapons during the U.N. General Assembly meeting ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s emoji creator saw nuance in pictures
They star in a new Hollywood film. The emoji is heir to a tradition of pictographic writing stretching back millennia to Egyptian hieroglyphics and the ideograms used to write Chinese and Japanese. Despite their ubiquity, they started in 1998 with one man ... ( read original story ...)
Reprocessed nuclear fuel returned to Japan for reactor use
(Madoka Ogawa/Kyodo News via AP) Without a plutonium-burning fast reactor, Japan has resorted to burning MOX, a mixture of plutonium and uranium fuel, in conventional reactors. Only three reactors, including two at Takahama, use MOX, a fraction of planned ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake hits Japan off coast of Fukushima nuclear plant
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan, just 320 kilometres east of Fukushima nuclear plant. The American scientific agency, which tracks natural disasters around the world, said the quake occurred 281 kilometres from Kamaishi ... ( read original story ...)
Powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Japan near Fukushima
A powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan near Fukushima. Details of the extent of the damage have not yet emerged regarding the quake which hit 281km South East of Kamaishi. A similar earthquake back in 2011 killed 15,894 ... ( read original story ...)
Families of Japan war dead to pray for fallen US soldiers
Dozens of descendants of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II have headed to Hawaii to pay respects to American war dead. Nippon Izokukai, the Bereaved Family Association of Japan, is sending 36 children, grandchildren and other relatives of fallen ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Open: Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy enter quarters
World No.8 Srikanth, who clinched back-to-back titles in Indonesia and Australia this year, demolished Hong Kong's Hu Yun 21-12 21-11 within half an hour to make it to the final eight of the $325,000 Japan Open Super Series, on Thursday. The Indian will ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes off Japan
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has hit off the coast of Japan, the US Geological Survey says. The agency's website says the quake hit early on Thursday about 283 kilometres southeast of the city of Kamaishi and more than 322km east of Fukushima. A massive 2011 ... ( read original story ...)
TD re-enters Japan with Tokyo fixed-income sales desk
"We can't afford not to be in Japan, in Tokyo," TD Securities chairman and CEO Robert Dorrance ... TD said last month it was expanding its operations in Ireland to strengthen its European business. ( read original story ...)
Apple-backed group to buy Toshiba chip business for $18 billion
Toshiba is selling its prized memory chip business for $18 billion to a group of buyers that includes Apple. The Japanese conglomerate is offloading major assets to try to deal with a crippling financial crisis. The memory chip business is its crown jewel ... ( read original story ...)