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Tokyo stocks opened lower on Monday weighed down by the US-China trade row ahead of this week's G20 summit and amid concerns over an escalation in US-Iran tensions. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was ... ( read original story ...)

What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades." He was given the 2018 prize for excellence in opinion writing by the Society of Publishers in Asia for his Nikkei Asian Review work. ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Big companies in Japan and South Korea have fallen further behind Western peers in addressing climate change, according to a new report by top U.K. asset manager Legal & General ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Southeast Asian countries like the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia are emerging as fertile markets for waste-to-power plants, and Japan hopes to use its expertise in the field to ... ( read original story ...)

Financial Times China’s poker face. Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, said that even if the U.S. did increase tariffs on China it would have a “very limited ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Foreign tourist spending in rural parts of Japan is surging faster than it is nationwide. Consumption by overseas visitors in rural areas came to 1.036 trillion yen (about $9.67 billion ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Female directors are carving out careers in Japan's male-dominated banking sector. One evening in February, seven of them, all of whom work at one of Japan's three mega banking groups ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s financial regulator, the Financial Service Agency (FSA), has issued a business improvement order to Japanese investment firm and Zaif crypto exchange operator Fisco. According to ... ( read original story ...)

Finance Minister Taro Aso survives no-confidence motions over ... More foreign travelers venturing beyond Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya areas, reports says About 18 million foreign travelers visited regions ... ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Japan next week to attend the G-20 summit where issues such as financial stability, WTO reform, black money, and terrorism will be on top of the agenda for ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA, Japan--(Business Wire)--Japanese Wealth Management Company ... Slack Technologies Inc took an unusual route on Thursday as its shares rallied without a public IPO. Researchers from Mirai Life ... ( read original story ...)

A spokesman for Japan’s ministry of economy, trade and industry declined to comment, as did a spokesman for the French finance ministry. Representatives for Renault and Nissan also declined to comment ... ( read original story ...)

In late January 2016, the lights were on well past midnight on the seventh floor of the Bank of Japan’s headquarters. Inside, a handful of bureaucrats were working on a shock plan. It was almost three ... ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - The United States and Japan may need to shore up bank oversight to prepare for economic downturns, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston warned on Friday. Eric Rosengren, ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei dropped on Friday as investors awaited cues from US-China trade talks, while oil and mining shares were in demand amid rising geopolitical risks in the Middle East. The Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's import of cheese for the month of April grew 34% on the year, in what is seen as the fruits of free-trade deals the country has signed in recent years. Entering year two of the ... ( read original story ...)