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TOKYO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei rose for a fourth day on Wednesday, supported by buying of large cap stocks such as Fast Retailing which offset weakness in airlines. The Nikkei share ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan’s net income rose in the first half of fiscal 2018, aided by gains from the central bank’s holding of exchange-traded funds. Net income for the fiscal half year end... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan is revamping its automotive tax system to impose levies based on mileage, as revolution in green and sharing technologies squeeze revenue under the current framework. Car owners are ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The lower house of Japan's parliament passed legislation on Tuesday that would open the country's doors wider to foreign workers, bringing the bill a step closer to enactment, but issues ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will make companies responsible for explaining decisions made by artificial intelligence software they use, according to a government draft of legal guidelines shared with Nikkei. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese chat app operator Line Corp (3938.T) will set up a bank with Mizuho Financial Group Inc (8411.T) and also partner China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) to offer ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Line Corp shares jumped as much as 17 percent on Tuesday after the Nikkei business daily reported the Japanese chat app operator would tie-up with China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd ... ( read original story ...)

President Trump banned a CNN reporter only to find his position overturned by the judicial system. Well CNN is guilty of at least one thing – publishing misleading and alarmist economic reports about ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei surveyed 22 major retail and service companies, including operators of supermarkets, restaurants and hotels. Eighteen of the companies, or 80% of the total, confirmed that non-Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

the latest Nikkei/TV Tokyo survey finds. The Northern Territories, Japan's name for the southern Kuril Islands, are administered by Russia but claimed by Tokyo. The dispute has kept the two ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- As the U.S.-China confrontation heats up ahead of a crucial showdown between their leaders next week in Argentina, other countries like Japan are finding themselves caught in the middle. ( read original story ...)

Almost all Japan's biggest domestic banks are sponsors ... Banks are gearing up to fully mobilize to tackle the mobile unit's IPO. Even the world's most powerful investment banks are desperate ... ( read original story ...)

LONDON -- Japanese companies operating in the U.K. remain worried and pessimistic about the country's impending exit from the European Union, a Nikkei survey found, and some of the businesses ... ( read original story ...)

LONDON -- Japanese companies operating in the U.K. remain worried and pessimistic about the country's impending exit from the European Union, a Nikkei survey found, and some of the businesses ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei rose on Thursday in choppy trade with gains for defensive stocks and companies linked to inbound tourism demand after data showed a bounce in visitors in Octob... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Banks and regional financial institutions across Japan expect to come out with a unified smartphone payment service, perhaps in April 2020, Nikkei has learned. The envisioned service will ... ( read original story ...)