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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's unemployment rate in October held steady as the availability of jobs improved and household spending fell at a slower pace, a tentative sign that a robust labour market is lending support to domestic demand. The seasonally ... ( read original story ...)

For now, BOJ’s Governor Kuroda looks like the luckiest central banker in the world. The triumph of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president and the possible Trumponomics lead to an appreciation of the U.S. dollar and an increase in interest rate. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov 28 Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Monday morning, snapping a seven-day winning streak as investors took profits from its recent gains after the yen strengthened against the dollar. The Nikkei dropped 0.8 percent to 18,243.33 in midmorning ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan incurred a net loss in its half-year earnings for the first time in four years and saw its capital adequacy ratio slide, underscoring the strain its aggressive asset-buying program is putting on its massive balance sheet. Profits from the ... ( read original story ...)

A JAPANESE amusement park billed it as not only a unique game-changing tourist attraction for Japan, but ‘undeniably a world-first’. Space World theme park in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka, built a new ice skating rink initiative and teased potential ... ( read original story ...)

Nov.27 -- One of the World's most conservative investors has found an unlikely ally in one of its most flamboyant politicians. Bloomberg's Anna Kitanaka reports on "Bloomberg Markets." ( read original story ...)

Space World, a Japanese theme park that froze thousands of dead fish into the ice of a skating rink, closed the attraction Monday after it received a chilly response on social media. Photo: Space World ( read original story ...)

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) wants the Indian finance ministry to scrap the countervailing duty on imports for projects implemented by it, a senior finance ministry official told BloombergQuint. This, the agency hopes, will keep the cost ... ( read original story ...)

ZAKA, ZIMBABWE – Under the scorching Zimbabwean sun, cattle seek shade among stunted thorn bushes in the drought-prone district of Zaka, where crops wither due to increasing temperatures and changing weather patterns. Severe lack of rain across southern ... ( read original story ...)

The weak inflation data -- core prices excluding fresh food fell 0.4 percent from a year ago -- come several weeks after Japan's central bank pushed back the timeline for hitting its 2.0 percent inflation target. The BoJ's target is a key part of Prime ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has told Russia the deployment of missiles on disputed islands in the Pacific is "deplorable", Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday, ahead of talks aimed at resolving a decades-old territorial spat. The positioning of coastal defence missiles on two ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO Japan's core consumer prices marked their eighth straight month of annual declines in October, illustrating the sheer scale of the central bank's struggle to beat deflation and stagnant growth with diminishing policy options. The data will keep ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO-Japanese consumer prices fell again in October, but deflationary pressure showed some signs of softening-a positive development for beleaguered central bankers. The core consumer price index slipped 0.4% from a year earlier in October, adjusted for ... ( read original story ...)

The data will keep policymakers under pressure to do more to stimulate the economy, with fiscal spending likely the more preferred option as three years of aggressive easing by the Bank of Japan failed to accelerate inflation to its 2 percent target. ( read original story ...)

Nov.24 -- Japan Display is said to be close to winning a bailout from INCJ worth nearly $900M. Bloomberg's Yuji Nakamura reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia." ( read original story ...)

Tokyo woke up Thursday to its first November snowfall in more than half a century, leaving commuters to grapple with train disruptions and slick streets. Snow began falling before dawn with the mercury approaching zero as a cold weather system moved south ... ( read original story ...)