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TOKYO, April 4 Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Tuesday to 10-week lows as the safe-haven yen rose and as automakers tumbled on weaker-than-expected U.S. sales. Financial stocks such as banks and insurers, which seek to boost returns from higher ... ( read original story ...)

with an upbeat Bank Of Japan survey failing to overcome lingering worries about the outlook for exporters. The Nikkei's gained 0.4 percent to 18,983.23, not so far from a seven-week closing low of 18,909.26 hit last Friday. A closely watched central bank ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, April 4 Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Tuesday as the safe-haven yen rose and as automakers tumbled on weaker-than-expected U.S. sales. Financial stocks such as banks and insurers, which seek to boost returns from higher yielding U.S. bonds ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The Nikkei Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, or PMI, dropped to 52.4 in March from 53.3 in February. A reading above 50 signals an improvement, while one below 50 points to a contraction in activity. March's PMI recorded the above-50 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Encouraged by stronger export orders, Japanese manufacturers are feeling a bit more upbeat than they were late last year, according to a quarterly survey by the Bank of Japan released Monday. The central bank's "tankan" report put sentiment among ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will encourage companies to share big data they collect, so that businesses can better cooperate on developing new products and services in the age of the "internet of things" instead of keeping all the information to themselves. An advisory ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Fintech is changing the way companies around the world finance operations and make investments. In Japan, a growing number are turning to the web to raise capital needed for developing new products and services, with crowdfunding in particular ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU), a core unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) , is in talks with its big corporate customers on potential fee hikes, in a bid to pass on some of the costs of negative interest rates. ( read original story ...)

On the sidewalks of Japanese cities, 20- and 30-something women can be seen sporting this new gear. The appeal of putting these clothes over -- rather than under -- most of the rest of an outfit seems to rest in their being ... let's call it cute. ( read original story ...)

offering such encouragement as that the TSE is one of the highly probable IPO venues to sell shares in Aramco. Only six foreign companies are currently listed on the TSE, a drop from more than 100 during Japan’s late-1980s asset-inflated economic growth ... ( read original story ...)

The players faced off in a round robin at the Japanese go organization Nihon Ki-in's Osaka headquarters on March 21-23, with the cooperation of Nikkei Inc. South Korea's Park Jeong-hwan came out the winner, prevailing in all three matches. "The toughest ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Despite a tightening job market that is putting upward pressure on wages, growth in Japan remains stubbornly slow as a labor shortage constrains business activity while part-timers and temps hesitate to loosen their purse strings. The unemployment ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese Yen has been on somewhat of a rollercoaster ever since Presidential Elections in the United States. After a rather consistent run of weakness against the Greenback in the month and a half after the start of the ‘Trump Bump’, USD/JPY ... ( read original story ...)

10:33a APAC Closing Prices: #ASX 5864.90 -0.53% #NIKKEI 18909.26 -0.81% #HSI 24111.5.. 10:13a Toshiba offered $17.9 billion for chip unit by Silver Lake and Broadcom: Nikk.. 09:59a Asian Market Update: #Nikkei drops to over 7-week closing low as investors lo. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO The new head of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) said it is "actively studying" an acquisition of a U.S. bank, as part of efforts to seek a reliable dollar funding source for future growth. Securing cheap, stable dollar funding has been a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, March 31 Japan Post Bank Co Ltd, the country's biggest bank by assets, on Friday said it will seek regulatory permission to sell unsecured retail loans, as it hunts for higher returns in an environment of ultra-low interest rates. The bank aims to ... ( read original story ...)