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Aso said while Japan was undecided on whether to file a challenge to the ... growth through free and fair trade,” Aso said on Friday after attending the G7 finance leaders’ gathering. Fears of a global trade war have overshadowed the G7 talks in ... ( read original story ...)

WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday he had told his G7 counterparts the group of advanced economies should send a message that it continues to watch market moves carefully. Aso also said while Japan was ... ( read original story ...)

Japan had 946,060 births in 2017 ... Babies born to foreign mothers increased 25% to 185,000 in 2017, accounting for nearly a quarter of all births. Nikkei staff writers Jun Ishikawa in Berlin and Manabu Morimoto in Brussels contributed to this report. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 31 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average on Thursday bounced back from a six-week low as worries over Italy’s political crisis receded. The Nikkei rose 0.83 percent to 22,201.82. On Wednesday, it hit 21,931.65, the lowest since April 18. ( read original story ...)

The U.S. president's newly-floated 25% tariff on imported autos has industry executives from Japan to Germany reconsidering their American consumer calculus. Sure, Nissan's move, reported by Nikkei on Tuesday, seems partly about reducing inventories and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, June 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is holding a campaign to promote Tokyo's charms overseas and also in a broad scope in Russia using the logo and slogan "Tokyo Tokyo Old meets New." (Logo: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/img ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – Osaka prosecutors decided Thursday not to indict former top Finance Ministry official Nobuhisa Sagawa for allegedly falsifying documents on a murky land sale that has sparked allegations of cronyism by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration. ( read original story ...)

The Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office decided not to indict Finance Ministry officials for altering their approved documents on the sale of state-owned land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen. The officials include Nobuhisa Sagawa, 60, former ... ( read original story ...)

WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Japan called on the United States to join forces in stopping China from taking market-distorting investment practices in a bilateral finance leaders' meeting, a senior Japanese finance ministry official said on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Tobacco Inc (2914.T) is set to slash prices on its heated tobacco products early next week after a similar move by bigger rival Philip Morris International Inc (PM.N), signalling increased competition in Japan's nascent market for ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Osaka prosecutors decided Thursday not to indict former top Finance Ministry official Nobuhisa Sagawa for allegedly falsifying documents on a murky land sale that has sparked allegations of cronyism by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei reported that Japan is growing frustrated by government assistance in China and South Korea to their ailing shipbuilding industries, with Prime Minister Mr Shinzo Abe even broaching the issue with his counterparts at a trilateral summit earlier this ... ( read original story ...)

L: We've always, that was always the goal even when we did our IPO on Nasdaq back in 2006 ... Resort ever and only the mega cities have that tourism appeal. L: We like Osaka or Yokohama, Kansai or Kanto equally and because I think at either one of those ... ( read original story ...

Tokyo Chuo Auction has filed for a stock market listing in Hong ... are trading at a record low of just below HK$13, compared with its IPO price of HK$33. China Art Financial Holdings is also barely trading above its debut price. Meanwhile, Whitestone ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The Japanese government plans to ease restrictions on unskilled foreign nationals seeking to work in Japan, Nikkei learned Tuesday, as the country grapples with a serious labor shortage. The new policy, which will ease Japanese language ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan’s net income rose in fiscal 2017 for a second straight year due to increased income from its holdings of exchange-traded funds. Net income for the fiscal year ended in March stood at 764.7 billion yen ($7.03 billion ... ( read original story ...)