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Market volatility that started in the U.S. and rippled through Asia this week stemmed from rising U.S. Treasury yields, Japan’s central bank governor said. While the economic fundamentals for the U.S. ... ( read original story ...)

Household spending in the third-largest economy in the world, Japan, surged to its highest level in the last three years. Such upbeat data from Japan allayed fears that the Asian giant’s ... ( read original story ...)

Bloomberg News reported Friday that the Japanese investment and technology firm aims to sell around 3 trillion yen ($27 billion) of shares, the biggest IPO ever, listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in ... ( read original story ...)

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday there were some adjustments seen in financial markets but this did not change the view that global growth ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-based SoftBank plans to market most of the shares to Japanese individuals, Bloomberg News has reported. Read how SoftBank may seek financing from banks pitching IPO role Representatives for ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Skilled workers that come to Japan will be eligible for a new type ... Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita told Nikkei on Thursday. Foreigners with advanced skills, education or work ... ( read original story ...)

Daiwa is the latest Japanese bank to migrate trading operations to Frankfurt from London, as the nation’s financiers move ahead with their Brexit contingency plans with only six months to go and no de... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei fell on Friday morning as investors maintained their risk aversion after Wall Street extended its slide overnight, dragging down recent winners such as insurer... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei tumbled to a one-month low on Thursday and suffered its biggest daily decline since March, hit by a sell-off in global shares, while tech firms and industrial ... ( read original story ...)

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - A senior International Monetary Fund official said on Friday it was “too early” to talk about normalizing monetary policy in Japan, as it will take a long time to achie... ( read original story ...)

The latest quarterly surveys from the Bank of Japan showed business sentiment among large manufacturers worsening for the third consecutive quarter. The declines came amid concerns about increasing tr... ( read original story ...)

Asian stocks plummeted in early trading Thursday following the skid on Wall Street. Japan’s Nikkei NIK, -3.89% fell about 4% as stocks got added pressure from the yen’s overnight bounce. The dollar wa... ( read original story ...)

A senior Japanese finance ministry official later told reporters that Tokyo was ready to “consider a response” if markets remain extremely volatile. He did not specify what steps Japan could ... ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - Bank of Japan board member Makoto Sakurai warned on Thursday the spread of protectionist trade measures was creating uncertainty in the global economy and could result in Japan’s economic ... ( read original story ...)

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Fiscal policy will likely play a bigger role in spurring growth when Japan is hit by a next recession, as the Bank of Japan’s ultra-easy policy is already in full swing ... ( read original story ...)

Daiwa is the latest Japanese bank to migrate trading operations to Frankfurt from London, as the nation’s financiers move ahead with their Brexit contingency plans with only six months to go and no de... ( read original story ...)