Tag: business

The dollar firmed above ¥107 yen in Tokyo trading Friday, thanks chiefly to buying on a stock market rebound. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥107.09-09, up from ¥106.86-87 at the same time Thursday. ( read original story ...)

JAPAN POST BANK releases earnings for the most recent quarter.Wall Street analysts predict earnings per share of ¥18.45.Track JAPAN ... ( read original story ...)

Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura on May 14 decided to gradually lift his requests for businesses to shut down or shorten operating hours, even though the prefecture remains under the national state ... ( read original story ...)

Renesas announced its decision to withdraw from the laser diode and photo diode/detector businesses and close the production line at the Shiga factory ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Rakuten Inc said on Friday the launch of its 5G services that was planned for June had been delayed by at least three months due to the impact on supply chains by the coronavirus crisis. Rakut ... ( read original story ...)

Mizuho Financial Group Inc reported on Friday a net profit of 44.6 billion yen ($416 million) in the fourth quarter compared to the Japanese bank's net loss in the year-ago quarter. ( read original story ...)

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Japan's consumer prices are expected to fall in April for the first time in more than three years and exports likely mark their biggest drop in more than a decade, a Reuters poll showed, as the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s economy has slipped from sales-tax hangover into deep recession, official data is set to show on Monday, with worse to come even as coronavirus restrictions on activity are gradually lifted. ( read original story ...)

Osaka Prefecture said Thursday it will remove part of its business suspension requests from Saturday, even as it remains under the state of emergency put in place by the central government. Department ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's western prefecture of Osaka has decided to begin gradually lifting a business suspension request it issued to contain the spread of the coronavirus. ( read original story ...)

Nissan Motor Co. is tapping a senior executive based in Japan to help revitalize its ailing business in North America as part of a broader reshuffling of its regional headquarters staff in the U.S. ( read original story ...)

Companies were also advised to suspend nonessential business trips and conduct meetings and interviews or seminars with job-seekers online. ( read original story ...)

But the metropolitan government has said it will maintain its business suspension request until May 31, when the current state of emergency is slated to expire. Osaka governor Hirofumi Yoshimura, ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - For Japan's shell-shocked small businesses, a promised $1.1 trillion in stimulus is proving too little, too late, raising the likelihood of a surge in bankruptcies at companies that ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo shares fell Thursday morning as a warning by the Federal Reserve of an economic slowdown in the United States dampened optimism ... ( read original story ...)