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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Seven & i Holdings is considering selling a stake in its supermarket unit ahead of a planned listing of the business, two sources said, as the 7-Eleven owner aims to speed up ...

Japanese stocks posted their steepest weekly fall in a month on Friday (Oct 4), as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s seemingly shifting stance on interest rates roiled the yen and unsettled investors, while shipping shares dropped after a US dock strike ended.

Space Walker, the spaceplane maker, was set up in 2017. One of its co-founders, Koichi Yonemoto, is a former JAXA engineer who was involved in a project to develop a Japanese version of the space ...

Japan's new economy minister, Ryosei Akazawa, said on Friday that the timing of changes in the Bank of Japan's monetary policy should be aligned with the government's broader goal of exiting deflation ...

Japan's Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Thursday that he will unveil an economic package with a focus on price relief and growth and will discuss assistance for low-income households. Focus on price relief. Measures to boost economic growth. Assistance for low-income household..

Metaplanet said it earned 23.9 Bitcoin ($1.4m) in premium income by selling 223 Bitcoin put options to Singapore's QCP Capital.

Global outcry as Cambodia arrests crypto scam investigator, Japan's new Prime Minister supports crypto, and more: Asia Express.

Masaaki Taira, Japan’s newly appointed Digital Transformation Minister, has hinted that he will push for crypto tax reform. Find out more!

Kinda seems like the big industry players are banking on stablecoins — and making their own, rather than using those created by, say, Tether or Circle. Some of that is making it ...

Binance’s rehabilitative efforts appear to be slow to take root, with the largest crypto platform’s share of trading volume in the roughly $2 trillion digital-asset market falling in September to the ...

Ibiden is the world's top supplier of cutting-edge chip packaging substrates but faces the looming arrival of competitors. The company's capital investment will be the heaviest this fiscal year to maintain a competitive advantage, President and CEO Koji Kawashima told Nikkei.

After a quick roughly 14% run higher following the U.S. Federal Reserve's 50 basis point rate cut nearly two weeks ago, conditions seemed ripe ...

Japanese investment firm Metaplanet Inc. went bullish on the world’s biggest digital asset and bought 107.913 Bitcoin to its portfolio.

The yen losses suggest the market is not worried about Ishiba's hawkish image and potential for faster BOJ rate hikes. BTC's drop likely stemmed from other factors.

TOKYO -- Bank of America is opening an office in Singapore this month to help Japanese companies expand into India and the rest of Asia, the lender's Japan country executive said.

Dividing the electorate based on sex is, of course, reductive. In 2020 a majority of white women voted for Mr Trump; according to the latest polling, that might turn into a minority in 2024, but only just. And although the youth gender gap is wider than before, most young men still plan to vote for ...