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In the banking sector, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial is falling more than 3 percent and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial is losing almost 4 percent. In the oil space, Japan Petroleum is falling almost 5 percent a... ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - Bank of Japan board member Makoto Sakurai warned on Thursday that the spread of protectionist trade measures was creating uncertainty in the global economy and could slow Japan’s economic ... ( read original story ...)

Japan and Hong Kong. The rankings, based on health, education and survivability measures, assess the future productivity and earnings potential for citizens of 157 of the World Bank’s member ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's famous fish market reopened Thursday at a new location but retained its most famous tradition: the tuna auction. The customary clanging of bells opened the auction for raw and frozen tuna, whi... ( read original story ...)

Four listing candidates failed to impress investors as they closed below their IPO prices in grey market trading yesterday. Tokyo Chuo Auction (1939) once fell to HK$1.25 or 16.7 percent below its IPO ... ( read original story ...)

Overall bank lending in Japan was up 2.3 percent on year in September, the Bank of Japan said on Thursday - coming in at 528.660 trillion yen. That exceeded expectations for an increase of 2.2 percent ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan is digging in deeper in support of Myanmar and Cambodia even as the U.S. and Europe ramp up criticism of human rights violations, choosing to preserve its influence in the region by ... ( read original story ...)

Cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase isn’t concerned that Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has begun to view the crypto trading industry with a more cautious eye in the wake of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's antitrust watchdog said on Wednesday it would end its inspection of the Japanese operations of Airbnb Inc as the U.S. home-sharing platform provider has taken appropriate ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese companies focus heavily on recruitment ... and job fairs allow students to look at companies all at once. Nikkei staff writer Takayuki Inoue contributed to this report. ( read original story ...)

Talks on obtaining a license are "going well" with the Japan's Financial Services Authority, Mike Lempres, chief policy officer at Coinbase, told the Nikkei Asian Review in a recent interview in ... ( read original story ...)

But Stephen Kelly, the shop's owner, knew that Kagoshima wagyu -- beef from the black cattle raised in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture -- had hardcore fans. "They sold out quickly," Kelly said. ( read original story ...)

Despite repeated speeches to the contrary. As of September 30, total assets on the Bank of Japan's elephantine balance sheet dropped by ¥5.4 trillion ($33 billion) from a month earlier, to ¥537 ... ( read original story ...)

She, like many Japanese women, had an education and early ... string of impressive financial institutions — Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., Nikkei Shimbun Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese companies focus heavily on recruitment ... and job fairs allow students to look at companies all at once. Nikkei staff writer Takayuki Inoue contributed to this report. ( read original story ...)

If a major earthquake or other disaster hits Japan, is the country equipped to provide sufficient information to foreign residents and tourists? This issue was brought into sharp relief this past ... ( read original story ...)