Tag: banking

SoftBank’s domestic telecom IPO has the potential to be the largest such offering ever -- with about 30 percent of the equity to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Dec. 19, people with knowledge ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese restaurant chains face sluggish growth as the country's population declines and staff become harder to find. A Nikkei survey of 224 restaurant companies found that 19.6% intend to hire ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei fell on Monday morning as budding hopes of a resolution to the U.S.-China trade war faded, while shares of index-heavy Fast Retailing tumbled after dismal month... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei tabulated the earnings of 641 companies ... steel and real estate have brushed off trade tensions with strong earnings. In Japan, Sony was one of the corporations with robust earnings. ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s top diplomat says it’s up to South Korea to resolve forced labor claims looming over dozens of Japanese companies that are threatening to upend ties between the two neighbors. F... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is expected to win listing approval for its mobile unit from the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Nov. 12 and the listing date is likely to be Dec. 19, De... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd on Tuesday ... said the service had got off to a good start but declined to provide financial details. Nintendo's shares hit a 10-year high in Januar... ( read original story ...)

The JAL Group (JAL) today announced the consolidated financial results for the second quarter of FY2018. During the second quarter, a number of natural disasters struck regions across Japan, such as t... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan launched its own highly precise satellite positioning system Thursday, a move expected to generate new services worth nearly 5 trillion yen ($44.4 billion) by 2025 as players like ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei soared to 1-1/2-week high on Friday tracking gains on Wall Street, but electronics components makers languished after Apple’s conservative outlook disappointed ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei fell on Thursday, pulled down by large cap mobile phone companies after NTT Docomo said lower service fees will start hitting its earnings next year, stoking co... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- NTT Docomo Inc. led a 3.8 trillion yen ($34 billion) stock rout of Japan’s top three mobile carriers after it appeared to cave in to pressure from the government, which has long claimed ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Foreign workers remain essentially blocked from many industries in Japan such as cosmetology despite the nation's critical labor shortage. Most hairstylists from overseas who attend ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei fell on Thursday, pulled down by large cap mobile phone companies after NTT Docomo said lower service fees will start hitting its earnings from the next fiscal ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's National Tax Agency said Wednesday that it has obtained information on about 550,000 accounts that residents of Japan hold overseas, data expected to be a powerful tool in ... ( read original story ...)

Bankers shuttling between Tokyo’s Otemachi financial centre and the Halloween celebrations in Shibuya last night did not have to work hard to perfect the broken stagger of the undead. October, said SM... ( read original story ...)