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while Finance Minister Taro Aso is holding a separate discussion with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, which is expected to touch on currencies. On Friday, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday there was no change in the government's stance that it would go ahead with a planned sales tax hike in October, barring a big ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn walked out of a Japanese jail for a second time late on Thursday, freed on $4.5 million bail after agreeing to curbs on contacting his wife as he ... ( read original story ...)

The Wall Street Journal reported the IPO plan Wednesday in New York ... Its Japan assets are listed in Tokyo under GLP J-REIT, which has risen about 7.8 percent this year. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Minister of Finance and deputy prime minister Taro Aso has urged reporters to stop using the term virtual currencies and switch to the newly-proposed legal name crypto assets. Aso ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan today said it may introduce a lending facility for its exchange-traded fund buying program, which would allow it to temporarily lend ETFs to market participants. ( read original story ...)

That’s the longest such stretch of low volumes since December 2017. As traders digest the Bank of Japan’s latest policy announcement Thursday, with one eye on the Narita Express, it remains to be seen ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will fail to reach its two-percent inflation target even by 2022, the central bank predicted on Thursday as it also revised down its estimate for growth in the world's third-largest economy. In ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Thursday and clarified its intention to keep interest rates very low for a prolonged period, committing to do so at least through around the spring of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO--The Bank of Japan revised its forward guidance on Thursday, saying it expected to keep extremely low interest rates until at least the spring of 2020. The central bank had previously said it ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s central bank left its key policy rate unchanged on Thursday, committing itself to substantial stimulus into 2020 to address slow growth and low inflation. The Bank of Japan opted to hold its ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo, Apr 25 (EFE).- The Bank of Japan in a statement Thursday reported its decision to maintain its ultra-low interest rate monetary policy and massive asset purchases at least until 2020. It said ... ( read original story ...)

Largely as expected, the Bank of Japan maintained its policy balance rate at -0.1% and 10-year JGB yield target about zero, and adjusted forward guidance. It maintained its forecast for 2019 core ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, April 25 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei edged higher on Thursday morning in choppy trade as investors looked to profit guidance from corporate earnings and awaited a Bank of Japan policy decision. ... ( read original story ...)

The offering is expected to be the largest U.S. IPO this year and among the 10 largest of all time ... reversed losses and gained as much as 1.9 percent in Tokyo trading on Wednesday. Investors will ... ( read original story ...)

Goldman Sachs co-leads the 1998 initial public offering of NTT Mobile Communication Network, Inc., (NTT DoCoMo), the largest IPO in history at the time. Coming in the midst of Japan's worst recession ... ( read original story ...)