Tag: banking

"We want students to know about us, and then hopefully, we wish to find those who are interested in joining our team," Vivienne Li Wenli, president of Hisense Japan, told the Nikkei Asian Review ... ( read original story ...)

Despite positive cues from Wall Street, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei share average dropped 0.6% to 21,538.20 points by the midday break, pulling further back from a 2-1/2-month high hit on Thursday. ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese export curbs on key semiconductor materials to South Korea are supported by 58% of respondents in Japan, a Nikkei-TV Tokyo survey has found. Tokyo's restrictions enjoy wide ... ( read original story ...)

Shibata is trying to forge a different path by moving aggressively into structured finance, with a view to arranging deals in Japan and eventually abroad. He’s also led the way among regional lenders ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japans's three largest maritime shipping companies are defying a slowdown in global trade, and are expected to report higher earnings due to a reduction in unprofitable routes and a ... ( read original story ...)

It was the first meeting held after Japan’s upper house election on July 21. Officials from Japan's economy, agriculture and finance ministries participated in the meeting. Aiming to reach a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — The European Central Bank's decision to hold off on immediate policy easing likely heightens the chance the Bank of Japan will stand pat next week, too, using words rather than action to ... ( read original story ...)

The workers need the motivation to handle rising demand from China, Biol told the Nikkei Asian Review. China became the largest importer of Philippine bananas last year, dislodging Japan ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japan’s Nikkei lost traction on Friday on downbeat earnings both at home and on Wall Street, erasing some of the previous day’s advance which had pushed the benchmark to a 2-1/2 ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Tokyo’s key inflation gauge held steady in July, topping expectations for a decline after nationwide price gains fell to the lowest in two years last month. Consumer prices ... ( read original story ...)

And with central banks around the world now in monetary easing mode, financial firms are growing concerned that the Bank of Japan may loosen policy further. “There is a limit to what banks can do to ... ( read original story ...)

Tencent expects the Japan arm to sign up 100 companies within a year. Yan Wang, general manager of operations for Tencent Cloud International, told Nikkei that the unit projects the business to ... ( read original story ...)

One year before the start of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games, international and Japanese conservation organizations are appealing to Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike to ban the sale of ivory in the city. ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL -- U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton pushed South Korea Wednesday to tamp down its feud with Japan, encouraging Washington's two top allies in the region to work together amid ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's Mitsui Fudosan looks to open a luxury hotel in the hot springs resort town of Hakone in 2022, Nikkei has learned, part of a development push that would double the company's ... ( read original story ...)

Donald Trump said Monday that trade negotiations had "essentially" begun between the world's two biggest economies after he reached a deal to re-start talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the ... ( read original story ...)