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TOKYO -- As Japan prepares to legalize home-sharing businesses this week, some people who currently rent out their homes are, in fact, seeing the long-awaited deregulation as a sign to exit the market. A new law that allows home-sharing, called minpaku ... ( read original story ...)

according to a recent survey run by market research company Kantar on behalf of Nikkei Asian Review. The survey, carried out by Kantar's Lightspeed division, questioned 2,600 citizens across India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore and Thailand. It found that ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore could set an important foundation of peace for Asia to pursue further growth, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ... which is hosted by Nikkei. Abe told the audience that he had received a telephone call ... ( read original story ...)

Note that Tokyo has two international airports ... Costs exclude ‘splurge’ option Barry Choi is a personal finance and budget travel expert at Moneywehave.com. He makes regular media appearances where he talks about all things related to money and ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese online marketplace Mercari priced its initial public offering at the top of the range to sell ¥130.5 billion (Dh4.4bn) worth of shares, a valuation that’s set to make its 40-year-old founder a billionaire. The firm plans to sell 43.5 million ... ( read original story ...)

Mercari Inc. priced its initial public offering at the top of the range to sell 130.5 billion yen ($1.2 billion) worth of shares, a valuation that’s set to make its 40-year-old founder a billionaire. The online marketplace plans to sell 43.5 million ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Flea market app operator Mercari Inc (4385.T) priced its initial public offering (IPO) at the top of an indicative range on Monday, in Japan’s biggest IPO so far this year that is raising up to 130.7 billion yen (0.89 billion pounds). ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Flea market app operator Mercari Inc (4385.T) priced its initial public offering (IPO) at the top of an indicative range on Monday, a regulatory filing showed, in Japan’s biggest IPO so far this year that is raising 130.7 billion yen ($ ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Some tourists on their way to Japan have begun looking for alternative lodgings now that their Airbnb bookings have been canceled. Last week, the home-sharing pioneer pulled the listings of its Japan hosts who have yet to complete a registration ... ( read original story ...)

Starting around 2000, many Japanese companies have adopted meritocracy-based promotion over traditional seniority-based. Combined, it means that life time employment increasingly loses its allure for workers. In fact, a recent Nikkei survey finds that a ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese stocks rose on Monday but gains were limited as investors focused on the U.S.-North Korea summit, while Tokyo Electric soared as the outcome of a local election was seen to be positive for one of the utility’s nuclear power plants. The Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI/SHANGHAI/OSAKA -- Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry ... The company plans to put some IPO funds toward addressing the cost issue by mechanizing production lines, including by applying artificial intelligence. Investors include Chinese e-commerce ... ( read original story ...)

where there are 170,000 people per bank, and in Japan, where the number of citizens per bank rises to nearly 900,000. "You do have a very divided market across the continent of Europe," Barclays CEO Jes Staley said this week during an interview on CNBC. ( read original story ...)

On May 2, Shinsei Bank announced that starting from October it will impose fees for automatic teller machine (ATM) transactions. Shinsei’s main sales point has always been its lack of ATM fees, but the bank will start charging ¥108 per ATM withdrawal ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average snapped a four-day winning streak in choppy trade on Friday morning, with many investors on the sidelines as they await major economic events. Large-cap stocks such as SoftBank and Fanuc underperformed. ( read original story ...)

“You buy when you think it is timely and sell to lock-in capital gains.” The Bank of Japan’s negative interest-rate policy is pressuring domestic lenders to take too much risk, Takahide Kiuchi, a former BOJ board member, said in an interview last mont ( read original story ...)