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Headline indices of the Japan share market closed higher on Wednesday, 20 February 2019, as risk sentiments underpinned on tracking overnight gains on Wall Street after US-China trade talks resumed wh... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Business investment in Japan has been a rare bright spot in the world's third-largest economy but that may now be fading amid anxiety over an upcoming sales tax hike and global trade ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei rose to more than two-month highs on Wednesday morning, as progress in U.S.-China trade talks helped lift cyclical stocks such as autos and electronic equipmen... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei closed at another nine-week high on Wednesday, as hopes for U.S.-China trade talks helped lift cyclical stocks such as autos and index-heavyweights including S... ( read original story ...)

In Japan, homes are usually rented out unfurnished ... People familiar with the matter told the Nikkei Asian Review that the launch of the rental apartment service marks the first overseas foray ... ( read original story ...)

"Survey data for Japan's manufacturing sector ebbed into negative territory in February, reflecting sharper reductions in demand and production. Although the initial Q4 estimate revealed a bounce back ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s exports sank 8.4% year-over-year in January. Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Wednesday after a modestly high finish on Wall Street that extended the market’s gains into a fourth week. The ... ( read original story ...)

Ministry of Finance data out on Wednesday showed Japan’s exports fell 8.4 percent year-on-year in January, a bigger decline than the 5.5 percent fall expected by economists in a Reuters poll. It was t... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital has picked Nomura and Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley to manage an initial public offering of Japan's Toshiba Memory, a deal that could happen ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital has picked Nomura and Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley to manage an initial public offering of Japan’s Toshiba Memory, a deal that could ha... ( read original story ...)

into action.” As Cointelegraph reported yesterday, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Japan’s second-largest bank by assets, conducted a PoC using blockchain consortium R3’s Marco Polo ... ( read original story ...)

It is time for another chapter of our Discovering Japan ( h/t Graham Parker and the Rumour) series and let us open by dipping into Japanese culture. As spring approaches, the country’s weather forecas... ( read original story ...)

Mr Kuroda repeated that possible easing tools the BOJ could deploy included cutting short- and long-term interest rates, expanding asset buying or accelerating the pace of money printing. "Whatever we ... ( read original story ...)

Officials from Philippine and Japanese governments are set to meet in Osaka, Japan on Thursday for the 7th high-level meeting on infrastructure and economic cooperation. In a statement on Wednesday, t... ( read original story ...)

Ministry of Finance data out on Wednesday showed Japan's exports fell 8.4 percent in the year to January, versus a 5.5 percent annual drop expected by economists in a Reuters poll. It was the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s central bank has examined the role of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the current monetary system in a report released on Feb. 19. In the document, the bank describes the ... ( read original story ...)