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The Osaka-based comp... Japanese noodles maker Nissin Foods (1475) tumbled on its debut today. At close, the spin-off of Tokyo-listed Nissin Foods Holdings dropped to HK$3.37, slipped 4.80 percent, compared with the HK$3.54 IPO price. The stock opened at ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The rift is widening between Japan's regional banks and the Japan Fair Trade Commission, even as the competition watchdog continues to deny it is hindering integration deals. The JFTC does not approve deals that would negatively impact customers ... ( read original story ...)

Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia's armed forces, is visiting Japan this week, in a trip that will raise eyebrows in the U.S. and western European capitals. For Gerasimov is none other than the controversial creator of the "Gerasimov ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Riken, Japan's national research institute, celebrated its 100th anniversary this year. The organization was once called a "scientist's paradise," but those days seem to be over, as its research has been mostly determined by the government in ... ( read original story ...)

As stocks surge and consumer prices inch higher, investors say it’s time for the Bank of Japan to reduce equity purchases that have been criticized for distorting the market. Sometime next year, the BOJ will cut its annual buying target for domestic ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan, the U.S. and the European Union will join together to call for fairer trade practices at the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization to be held in Buenos Aires from Sunday. They are expected to announce a joint policy to develop ... ( read original story ...)

Most Japanese companies' payout ratios cluster around the same level, showing little individuality in spending strategies. Paying more, but not proportionally The Nikkei calculated completed and planned payouts by listed Japanese companies that close their ... ( read original story ...)

Several observers have noticed recent changes in tone in monetary policy in Japan. First, as the media reports, the BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda gave a speech at Zurich on November 13. In the lecture, he suggested the possibility of the “reversal rate ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo: Japan could consider joining China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank if it makes some changes, a ruling coalition party executive said in an interview in Tokyo on Wednesday. Yoshihisa Inoue, secretary general of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ... ( read original story ...)

Overall bank lending in Japan was up 2.7 percent on year in November, the Bank of Japan said on Friday - coming in at 518.099 trillion yen. That was below expectations for a gain of 2.8 percent, which would have been unchanged from the previous month. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Nikkei led the way again with an early gain of 0.9 per cent, adding to Thursday's 1.45 per cent bounce. Australian stocks put on 0.4 per cent while MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.1 per cent. Bidders were ... ( read original story ...)

Whether it’s robots or smartphones, AI or premium audio products, Japan has always been at the forefront of any conversation about technology. We recently spent several weeks in Tokyo discovering not only what some of the biggest names in new tech are ... ( read original story ...)

Japan could consider joining China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank if it makes some changes, a ruling coalition party executive said in an interview in Tokyo on Wednesday. Yoshihisa Inoue, secretary general of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's taxation authority is tightening scrutiny on wealthy ... but a disclosed internal document has shed light on some of the cases. The document the Nikkei obtained from the agency is about the agency commissioner's staff commendations on ... ( read original story ...)

The broader Topix rose 1.1 per cent to 1,785.26, while the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 rose 1.1 per cent to 15,816.14. Tokyo, Dec 7: Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Thursday, taking back some ground lost in the previous session as investors sought bargains ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp (:6753.T) will ask the government to help it form an alliance with rival Japan Display Inc (:6740.T) in OLED technology to better compete with South Korean makers, its chief executive said on Thursday. "We should create ... ( read original story ...)