Landlocked European countries are looking to Japan’s approach to energy as a potential model following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while Tokyo is looking to Europe as it refines its own strategy, ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese investors sell foreign stocks on caution over Fed comments, valuation concerns
Japanese investors divested significant holdings in foreign stocks in the week to November 1, as they turned cautious amid hawkish remarks from some U.S. Federal Reserve officials and favoured locking ... ( read original story ...)
Japan resumes seafood exports to China 2 years after Fukushima wastewater release
Japan says that its seafood exports have resumed for the first time since China imposed a ban over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ... ( read original story ...)
Thakral’s profit triples to S$19.5 million on divestment of Osaka property
Thakral attributed its revenue growth to its lifestyle segment, which rose 33 per cent year on year in Q3 to S$97.7 million on the back of robust demand in South Asia and Greater China. For the nine ... ( read original story ...)
BOJ will continue experiments for issuing CBDCs – Kuroda
The Bank of Japan will work closely with overseas central banks in conducting experiments on issuing its own digital currency in the future, BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)
Osaka Gas and Sonnedix to build BESS at 38.7MW solar PV project in Japan
Osaka Gas and Sonnedix have announced plans to install a BESS at the latter's 38.7MW Oita solar project in Japan. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mitsui OSK, others to buy 25% stake in Taiwan’s Formosa-1 wind farm
Japan's Mitsui OSK Lines , Toho Gas and Hokuriku Electric Power will buy a stake of 25% in Formosa International Investment from Australia's Macquarie Group to enter Taiwan's offshore wind power ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s trading houses brace for more pain from China steel glut
Japan’s major trading houses are facing a prolonged slump in iron ore and coking coal prices as Chinese steel exports flood into Asia and beyond. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s real wages down for ninth month in September
Japan's real wages fell for the ninth consecutive month in September as resurgent inflation outgrew nominal pay, government data showed on Thursday, highlighting the wage-price gap that complicates ... ( read original story ...)
Why Nepal grows Japan’s cash
Farmers in Nepal, one of Asia's poorest countries, harvest the shrub for Japan's money supply. ( read original story ...)
NEXT Oncology Expands to Japan in Joint Venture Partnership With Kansai Medical University
NEXT Oncology, an Avacare business, has expanded its services to Asia through a strategic partnership with Kansai Medical University in Osaka, Japan. Under the guidance of Dr. Toshio Shimizu as the ... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank chases actual revenue with OpenAI in corporate Japan
The two companies are still fine-tuning the products they are co-developing for Japanese enterprises Read more at The Business Times. ( read original story ...)
Toyota reports a drop in profit as Trump’s taxes hurt Japanese automakers
Toyota reported a seven per cent year-on-year drop in profit for April-September on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs slammed Japanese automakers ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Toyota, hurt by President Trump’s tariffs, reports a drop in profit
Toyota has reported its net profit fell 7% from a year earlier in April-September as President Donald Trump’s tariffs slammed Japanese automakers. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s top FX diplomat voices concern about AI-driven stock surge
Japan's top currency diplomat, Atsushi Mimura, said on Wednesday that he is concerned about the surging valuation of the stock market powered by the AI boom.There are concerns "whether or not the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mitsui lifts full-year profit forecast by 6%
Japanese trading house Mitsui said on Wednesday it was raising its annual profit forecast by 6 per cent due to an improved performance from its liquefied natural gas and mineral and metal resources ... ( read original story ...)