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In index futures trading on the Osaka Exchange, the key December contract on the Nikkei ... Toshiba Memory plans to hold IPO as soon as next autumn under new name Toshiba Memory Corp., the world's sec... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan is considering letting homeowners take a mortgage tax break for up to five more years from the current 10-year plan, Nikkei has learned, in a bid to keep homebuying demand steady ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING — Shared trade friction with the U.S. appears to be drawing longtime Asian rivals China and Japan closer, with Chinese President Xi Jinping telling Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's core consumer price inflation was unchanged in October from the previous month, government data showed on Friday, offering little encouragement for Japan's central bank as it struggles to reac... ( read original story ...)

... signed a currency swap arrangement of up to $30 billion - the largest such bilateral deal concluded by Tokyo - to strengthen financial stability and spur business activity in both countries, the B... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, Oct. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Even before its successful bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games, Tokyo was always Japan's number one sporting hub. CNN's Coy Wire explores the competitive ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Finance Ministry on Wednesday called for Japan cut 1 trillion yen ($8.9 billion) of defense spending over the next five years through more cost-effective procurement of ... ( read original story ...)

Oct. 25 (UPI) --Japan's finance ministry is calling for a nearly $9 billion cut to the country's defense budget, amid ongoing increases in military spending under Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. T... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) is planning to put a cap on the leverage available for crypto margin trading to curb speculation and risk. According to a news report from Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)

He is scheduled to return to Japan on Saturday. A delegation of Japanese business leaders is accompanying Abe as Asia's two largest economies seek to deepen trade, investment and co-operation on infra... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Toshiba Memory Corp., the world's second-largest maker of NAND flash memory chips, plans to move up an initial public offering and go public as soon as next autumn, sources close ... ( read original story ...)

A woman walks past an electronic board showing graphs of movements of Japan's Nikkei average outside a brokerage in Tokyo. Japanese stocks led a broad retreat across Asia early Thursday, highlighted b... ( read original story ...)

The consortium led by U.S. private equity fund Bain Capital, which bought Toshiba Corp.’s prized semiconductor unit for ¥2 trillion ($17.8 billion) in June, had said in October last year that it aimed ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's Ministry of Defense has raised the age limit for Self-Defense Forces recruits for the first time in 28 years to make up for a shrinking pool of potential members. The change ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make ... but will not participate in any new projects from April next year. Nikkei staff writer Eri Sugiura contributed to this report. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Tokyo:7011.T - News) is set to inject 220 billion yen ($2 billion) into its aircraft unit which has struggled to deliver its first passenger plane, natio... ( read original story ...)