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Japan’s cabinet approved a record defense budget plan of about $51.6 billion for the coming year, in what will be the ninth consecutive increase in annual spending amid threats from China and North ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's second-largest lender Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc is eager to buy a commercial bank in Indonesia, its chief executive said, after a "painful" defeat last year in vying for mid-sized ... ( read original story ...)

Some of the world’s biggest freelancing sites have inadvertently cut out talented professionals from developing economies — but a crypto-powered platform is changing that ... ( read original story ...)

SoftBank's Vision Fund is preparing to raise between US$500 million and US$600 million via an initial public offering of its first special purpose ... ( read original story ...)

The vehicles are being using to take a record number of companies public, bypassing the traditional IPO route. (Reporting by Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru and Sam Nussey in Tokyo; Editing by Jane ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will remove the limit on the amount ... aims to introduce digital textbooks to all schools by fiscal 2025, Nikkei has learned. Current rules state that digital textbooks can only ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese shares fell from a 29-1/2-year high hit earlier in the session on Monday, as concerns about a spike in domestic coronavirus infections and the emergence of a new strain of the virus in ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will look at reducing greenhouse gas emissions beyond its current target for 2030 and lay out details next year on a carbon pricing scheme that won't rule out a carbon tax, the environment ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s cabinet approved a record budget for next fiscal year, less than a week after approving a third extra budget as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s government looks to shore up the economy and ... ( read original story ...)

The odds of a Bitcoin correction would increase if the flows into the world’s largest traded cryptocurrency fund slow significantly, according to strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. ( read original story ...)

Although some results from the 2020 elections ended up as predicted, many did not. Even with some fresh faces in Washington, a divided Congress would mean that sweeping legislative changes are ... ( read original story ...)

SoftBank Group Corp. (OTC: SFTBY) will be filing for an initial public offering of its first special purpose acquisition company on Monday, Axios reports. What Happened: The ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese shares closed lower on Monday, slipping from a 29-1/2-year high hit earlier in the session, as concerns about a spike in domestic coronavirus cases and the emergence of a new strain of the ... ( read original story ...)

Pound sterling is significantly down across Asia markets on Monday, seemingly due to growing concerns about a new COVID-19 variant and tighter restrictions imposed in Britain. Shares started the week ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese conglomerate is expected to raise tens of billions of yen. It is currently unclear which company SBG is looking to purchase but it appears to not be any of the group's existing ... ( read original story ...)

FILE PHOTO: The logo of SoftBank Group Corp is displayed at SoftBank World 2017 conference in Tokyo, Japan, July 20, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato REUTERS: SoftBank's Vision Fund is preparing to raise ... ( read original story ...)