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Competition for skilled workers is intensifying in Japan, where the labour market is the tightest ... SEE ALSO: Nomura focuses on expansion of investment banking business in US Tokyo-based Nomura's ne... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Seven Bank is planning to add facial recognition technology to its ATMs, enabling users to open accounts through the machines, according to local press reports. The bank, a subsidiary of retai... ( read original story ...)

30 p.m. The former chairman of Japan's Nissan Motor Co. has told a Tokyo court that he was "wrongfully accused" of false financial reporting and other allegations. In his first public appearance since ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's manufacturing activity accelerated to eight-month high in December, with increased production and new orders. The Nikkei Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index ... ( read original story ...)

Can a largely cash-based society become the leader in bank-issued digital currencies? Japan might be a land of crypto-contrasts, but it is at the forefront of many crypto innovations and adoption ... ( read original story ...)

“For most U.S. visitors, Japan is a long haul destination and is already known for not being a cheap place to visit.” Aarthi is a writer for Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter @aarthiswami. ( read original story ...)

About 79% of respondents from Japan, 73% from China and 81% from South Korea said the trade war will deal a blow to their operations, according to the survey, which was conducted by Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's service sector growth slowed down in December with a weaker rise in new sales dampening output growth. The Nikkei Japan Services Purchasing Manager's Index, or PMI, recorded a ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Japan outmuscled China to dominate mergers and acquisitions in Asia last year, and with companies in possession of more than $890 billion in cash, the spending spree is likely to contin... ( read original story ...)

If you think Jerome Powell faces a difficult 2019 as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, consider what awaits Haruhiko Kuroda at the Bank of Japan. The New Year usually gets off to a slow start ... ( read original story ...)

Following Japan, Solasia will also initiate in South Korea ... PledPharma (STO: PLED) is listed on Nasdaq First North. Erik Penser Bank is the companys Certified Adviser (tel +46 8 463 80 00). For mor... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, (Reuters) - Growth in Japan's services sector slipped in December to the slowest in three months on some reduction of momentum in generating new business at the end of the year, a private showe... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan on Monday introduced a departure tax of 1,000 yen ($9.20) for each person leaving the country by plane or ship, the first new tax in 27 years. The tax will be tacked onto the price ... ( read original story ...)

(CNN) - Japan is playing catch-up in the global stocks rout. The country's Nikkei index dropped more than 3% Friday morning, in the market's first day of trading following the New Year break. "For Jap... ( read original story ...)

Japan's benchmark Nikkei Stock Average, meanwhile, plummeted by more than 700 points during the first trading day of the year on Friday before ending 452 points down at 19,561, a 2% decline from ... ( read original story ...)

The broader Topix index lost 1.53 percent or 22.93 points to 1,471.16. Tokyo's key Nikkei index plunged more than two percent on Friday, hit by a surge in the yen and sell-offs on Wall Street amid wor... ( read original story ...)