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Headline indices of the Japan share market closed higher on Monday, 17 December 2018, as investors chased for bottom fishing following a sharp decline late last week. However, market gains capped on r... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The Japanese government will encourage foreign workers coming in under a new visa program to spread out into outlying areas rather than congregate in the largest cities, according to a ... ( read original story ...)

according to the latest survey by Nikkei/TV Tokyo. Forty-eight percent were against the policy change, approved by Japan's parliament this month, while 40% favored allowing the increase in foreign ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA, Japan, Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- "AlkaNight Co., Ltd.," jointly owned by the Dentsu group and Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd., and Osaka Castle Park Management Co., Ltd., launched their ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should ensure that spending measures to ease the pain on the economy from next year's scheduled sales tax hike are temporary and well-communicated, a senior International ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - As the risks to the global economy rises, the Bank of Japan is expected to join a chorus of warnings from other policy-makers of the threat to growth from protectionism and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will take measures to help workers from abroad meet essential needs in their everyday lives ahead of an influx expected next year to address the nation's labor shortage. The ... ( read original story ...)

The limit on savings at Japan Post Bank will be doubled to ¥26 million per depositor in exchange for a promise to make efforts to reduce the government’s equity ownership of the bank, sources have sai... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Domestic investors have sought nearly double the number of shares offered by SoftBank Group Corp’s (9984.T) soon-to-list wireless unit, two sources from a lead IPO underwriter ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc (SMFG) on Friday named finance head Jun Ota as chief executive, at a time when Japan’s third-largest bank draws growing attention for possible mer... ( read original story ...)

Confidence among Japan's biggest manufacturers was unchanged this quarter after slipping for three consecutive surveys, central bank data showed on Friday. The Bank of Japan's Tankan report -- a quart... ( read original story ...)

Osaka has consistently voiced support for hosting a so-called ... and development vision together with our industry-leading financial strength to deliver a large-scale MICE-based integrated resort tha... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp plans to replace 4G network equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd with hardware from Nokia and Ericsson, Nikkei reported on Thursday, without ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank will be replacing hardware from Huawei Technologies in its 4G telecommunications network infrastructure in the next few years, Nikkei Asian Review reported on Thursday ... ( read original story ...)

Making Japan into cashless society is the motto for NIPPON Platform ... deposits/pay-with-ease/dbs-paylah [Link of OCBC Pay Anyone] https://www.ocbc.com/personal-banking/online-banking/payanyone.html ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Rising demand for haven assets is threatening to push Japan’s benchmark yield below zero percent and quash the likelihood of further central bank policy tweaks in the new year for fear ... ( read original story ...)