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YOKOHAMA, Japan Chinese Finance Minister Xiao Jie skipped a trilateral conference with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts on Friday to attend an emergency domestic meeting, a senior Japanese finance ministry official said. The Japanese official ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Major convenience store operators in Japan are putting the brakes on store openings following rapid expansion, turning their focus to profitability. The three major operators -- Seven-Eleven Japan, FamilyMart and Lawson-- plan a net increase of ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA -- Japan has signed a bilateral currency swap deal with Thailand, a move aimed at strengthening the Association of Southeast Asian Nation's resilience to future financial crises. Under the agreement, the two countries will be able to swap their ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA -- The finance ministers and central bank chiefs of Japan, China and South Korea issued a joint statement Friday opposing protectionism and promoting currency cooperation among Asian countries. "We will resist all forms of protectionism," the ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan — There's something changing in the Japanese economy, according to the country's top central banker. Speaking with CNBC on the sidelines of the 2017 Asian Development Bank meeting in Japan, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda explained ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan Chinese Finance Minister Xiao Jie skipped a trilateral meeting with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Yokohama on Friday due to important domestic matters, Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said. While the specific reasons for ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan – Top financial leaders of the Association of Southeast ... At the gathering in Yokohama on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank's annual meeting the finance ministers and central bank governors discussed revisions to the Chiang ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO Japan will not make concessions on issues such as farm tariffs in two-way trade talks with the United States as it did for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso told the Nikkei business daily in an interview. ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan Finance leaders of Japan, China and South Korea agreed to resist all forms of protectionism in a trilateral meeting on Friday, taking a stronger stand than G20 major economies against the protectionist policies advocated by U.S. President ... ( read original story ...)

The IPO would value Cochin Shipyard at an estimated Rs 5,500 crore ... A postgraduate naval architect from Japan’s Osaka University, which is incidentally top-ranked for this niche subject, he currently heads a 1800-people strong team of ship designers ... ( read original story ...)

On the positive side, Japan’s Osaka High Court overturned lower court decisions to ... Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner just issued a Buy Recommendation on this recent Canadian IPO. Stock Advisor Canada’s Chief Investment Adviser, Iain Butler ... ( read original story ...)

Since IPO, GasLog Partners will have acquired seven vessels ... As you can see, nearly half of these offtakers in the Far East, and include the likes of Osaka Gas, Chubu, and Mitsubishi in Japan, and KOGAS in South Korea. Despite greater destination ... ( read original story ...)

IPO Radio Fest 2017. Independent Online Radio ... Wednesday, Aug. 2, at Rialto Theatre. Shonen Knife. Since 1991, Osaka, Japan's Shonen Knife has blended the hard riff rock of Thin Lizzy and The Runaways with simple Ramones-y melodies, added a dash ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Even with the yen gaining significant muscle, combined net profit at Japan's major listed companies is set to soar to a record level for the year ended March 2017. Driving the growth are manufacturers, which have cushioned much of the impact of ... ( read original story ...)

The Asian Development Bank is holding its annual meeting in Japan, where bankers and leaders are assessing how they can support growth as income inequality grows in both rich and poor countries. The ADB has worked for a half-century to fight poverty and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO/SYDNEY In February 2015, bankers working on Japan's biggest IPO in three decades woke to news that left them shaken. Their client had just closed a multi-billion dollar deal - but had kept them firmly out of the loop. Just months ahead of its listing ... ( read original story ...)