Astro Japan Property Group (ASX: AJA) advises that all resolutions put to the General Meeting of stapled securityholders held today, which related to a proposal for Blackstone to acquire all of AJA's interests in its Japanese assets (Proposal), were ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM Abe: Want next BOJ head to focus on meeting price goal – Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he wants the country’s central bank to focus on monetary policies geared at achieving its 2 percent inflation target, regardless of who becomes the next Bank of Japan governor, the Nikkei newspaper ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 rejects NGO claims over timber providers
LIMA (Reuters) - Organisers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Tuesday rejected allegations by 47 non-governmental organisations that they had used companies with suspect logging track records, saying all material purchased was strictly regulated. In an open ... ( read original story ...)
Just over 2 years left, intense work at Tokyo stadium site
TOKYO (AP) — The Olympic stadium in Tokyo is taking shape with 22 cranes on site and the spectator stands being installed after 10 months of underground foundation work. With its completion deadline just over two years away, work is intense. Olympic ... ( read original story ...)
‘We’re scared, obviously’: Japanese worry over growing North Korean nuclear threats
Pyongyang is threatening to keep firing missiles in Japan's direction or beyond ... Kondo says many atomic bomb survivors are frustrated by the recent news from the Korean Peninsula. She is shaken to her core when she hears reports of the estimated ... ( read original story ...)
School operator couple demanded discount on land deal; did finance bureau comply?
We will work things out to make the price as close to that figure." The audio recording reveals the Kagoikes, who wanted to buy the property in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to open an elementary school, start claiming that the soil at the property is ... ( read original story ...)
Japan aims to raise around $12bn in postal giant share sale
Last year state-owned Kyushu Railway made its trading debut after raising some 416 billion yen in an IPO. Tokyo sold shares in the struggling regional railway, better known as JR Kyushu, in hopes of attracting big-saving Japanese households as part of ... ( read original story ...)
JAPAN: Nikkei rips a +2.6% 2-day move on Down Yen
09/10 #Thailand For Thailand's retail giant Central Group, it is no longer all in t.. 09/10 #Thailand For Thailand's retail giant Central Group, it is no longer all in t.. 09/08 US CLOSE Dow +13.01 (+0.06%) Nasdaq -37.68(-0.59%) S&P -0.15% FTSE -0.26%. ( read original story ...)
Japan trials driverless cars in bid to keep rural elderly on the move
NISHIKATA, Japan (Reuters) - As the annual rice harvest begins this month in the Japanese town of Nishikata, the combines that usually putter along the sleepy roads lining its rice fields are giving way to a vehicle residents have never before seen ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Backs U.S. Proposal to Target North Korea’s Oil Supplies
Japan backed a U.S. push for the United Nations Security Council to vote Monday on fresh sanctions against North Korea, saying that Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program poses the most serious threat since World War II. Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera on ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Q2 GDP Revised Down: ETFs in Focus
Japan’s GDP growth in the second quarter was a lot lower than initially estimated. Per government data released Sep 8, 2017, Japan’s economy grew an annualized 2.5% in the quarter compared with preliminary estimates of a 4% expansion. Although the ... ( read original story ...)
Huge Japanese business delegation focuses on EEC
AS A MASSIVE delegation from Japan visits the Kingdom, Thailand expected them to boost investment in infrastructure, particularly for dual-rail, high-speed trains, by next year to steer development in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), Prime Minister ... ( read original story ...)
Investigation shifts to ministry in Moritomo land scandal
OSAKA--Prosecutors have obtained a recording of a Finance Ministry official telling a school operator about efforts to reduce the sales price of state-owned land “closer to zero” as requested, sources said. The former director of the school operator ... ( read original story ...)
Nissan decries incremental change, seeks dramatic jumps
In an example at Nissan's Yokohama plant, shown to The Associated Press, a coating technology made the metal liner of a cylinder block of an engine about the tenth of its previous thickness, from 2 millimeters (0.08 inches) to 0.2 millimeters (0.01 inches). ( read original story ...)
Olympics: NGOs complain to IOC over Tokyo Games environmental record
LIMA (Reuters) - Dozens of environmental group sharply criticized organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Monday for alleged exploitation of tropical rain forests, claiming this was also potentially fuelling human rights violations. In an open letter to ... ( read original story ...)
Kagoikes indicted over fresh fraud charges
The team will next launch a full-fledged investigation into a breach of trust case over the sale of government-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The sale was by the Finance Ministry’s Kinki Local Finance Bureau to Moritomo Gakuen, for the site of ... ( read original story ...)