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the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) said. Shinji Ayuha, advisor of Finance Office for SMEs of the Industry Finance Group of JBIC, said the establishment of Japan desks with staff who are fluent in Japanese and also familiar with the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, March 13 (Reuters) - Japanese wholesale prices rose 1.0 percent in the year to February, Bank of Japan data showed on Monday. The rise in the corporate goods price index (CGPI), which measures the price companies charge each other for their goods ... ( read original story ...)

The Hanoitimes – Several Japanese investors have seen the slump in the securities market as an opportunity to buy stocks on the cheap in Vietnamese banks. When Tokyo – Mitsubishi UFJ Bank announced plans to buy a stake in Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial ... ( read original story ...)

The value of Japanese government bonds held by domestic banks was 79.59 trillion yen ($693 billion) as of Jan. 31, the Bank of Japan said, falling below 80 trillion yen for the first time since 2003. The central bank introduced radical easing steps in ... ( read original story ...)

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Our customers will greatly benefit from this collaboration.” The deal came shortly after the Japan Bank Consortium, which operation is run by SBI Holdings and its subsidiary SBI Ripple Asia, announced that it successfully completed a pilot implementation ... ( read original story ...)

JAPAN: When volunteer Mr Tatsumi Okabe, 78, meets Mr and Mrs Yagi for lunch once every month, he provides valuable companionship – particularly for Mrs Yagi, a usually-withdrawn and quiet 75-year-old with dementia, who brightens up whenever he comes by. ( read original story ...)

Japan's JX Holdings energy group and engineering company JGC will work with Saudi Aramco to develop petroleum and gas technologies. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. -- Japan's megabanks -- will share ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is at the bottom of the list ... chief executive officer at the Thai Institute of Directors and a former deputy governor of the Bank of Thailand. Norway and Sweden, like other countries in Europe and elsewhere, have enacted laws requiring companies ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO—Japan’s consumer prices rose for the first time in more than a year in January as rising global oil prices gave Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Bank of Japan a helping hand in their campaign to overcome deflation. The fractional increase in ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- A Tokyo Metropolitan Government panel is discussing steps aimed at reclaiming the Japanese capital's status as Asia's top financial center, including making the tax system more hospitable to foreign financial institutions. The effort is being ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Friday rejected U.S. demands for more access to Japan's auto market, saying the government has already taken steps to eliminate tariffs and non-tariff barriers. The rebuff by the government's top spokesman came in reply to a ... ( read original story ...)

The bank hopes the system can help it to drastically broaden its fee-paying customer base. For instance, were Rakuten, an online retail emporium that is big in Japan, to become a client, SMFG and Daon would suddenly have more than 100 million "users." ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan rejected U.S. demands for more access to Japan's car market on Friday, casting doubt over whether it can avoid friction over autos and agriculture imports at high level bilateral talks on economic relations next month. The joint ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Exchange Group's Akira Kiyota plans to meet with senior ... By comparison, the Saudi exchange has a total market capitalization of somewhat more than $400 billion. The proposed IPO would necessarily involve a multiple listing. The TSE has no shortage ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp's Westinghouse unit needs to decide by the end of the month whether to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy so the Japanese conglomerate can compile audited third-quarter earnings without further delays, Japan's Finance Minister ... ( read original story ...)