Tag: finance

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top financial diplomat Masatsugu Asakawa said on Thursday that G20 finance leaders would raise the issue of cryptocurrencies at their meeting in Buenos Aires in March. Asakawa, vice finance minister for international affairs ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-based SoftBank has yet to send out so-called requests ... Getting involved early may help Japan’s biggest brokerage win a lucrative global coordinator role for the IPO, which could become the country’s largest debut share sale since NTT DoCoMo ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan should consider buying foreign bonds as part of efforts to reflate the economy during Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s second term at the central bank helm, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. The BOJ is ... ( read original story ...)

Nobukazu Teranishi, an award-winning Japanese engineer whose innovations can be found in almost every digital image capturing device, says technical people should be more highly valued in his home country. In an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review ... ( read original story ...)

But despite the popularity of internet banking, the retail bank experience in Japan appears little changed from a decade or two ago. Personal attention to the customer and a thick, sturdy passbook are still regarded as hallmarks of quality in Japan's banks ... ( read original story ...)

The central government has announced that Osaka will host the 2019 G20 summit next year. However the meeting of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors will be held in Fukuoka City. Both Fukuoka Prefecture and Aichi Prefecture were in ... ( read original story ...)

GIC Chief Executive Lim Chow Kiat said in an email reply to questions posed by Nikkei Asian Review that while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe administration's has implemented structural reforms, Corporate Japan needs to ensure sustainable changes for ... ( read original story ...)

GIC Chief Executive Lim Chow Kiat said in an email reply to questions from The Nikkei Asian Review that while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration has implemented structural reforms, corporate Japan needs to ensure sustainable improvements. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's point man on currency diplomacy sees the ... "I cannot help but assess the [yen] movements as one-sided," Masatsugu Asakawa, vice minister of finance for international affairs, told The Nikkei in an interview Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Tuesday it would become the latest blue-chip firm to jockey for position in Japan's taxi and ride-hailing market, with plans for a joint venture to develop an artificial intelligence-based hailing system. ( read original story ...)

Japan's cryptocurrency industry has lacked a unified voice ... a member of both existing industry groups and will not be a part of the new organization. Nikkei group company QUICK holds an equity stake in bitFlyer. ( read original story ...)

Sony Corp looks set to become the latest blue-chip firm to jockey for position in Japan’s taxi and ride-hailing market, with plans for a joint venture to develop an artificial intelligence-based hailing system, the Nikkei newspaper reported. Japan is ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's point man on currency diplomacy sees the yen's recent ... vice minister of finance for international affairs, told The Nikkei in an interview Tuesday. He nonetheless indicated plans to reaffirm the agreement among the Group of 20 major ... ( read original story ...)

The G-20 presidency is currently held by Argentina. In the past, the city of Osaka hosted the summit meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in November 1995 and the Group of Eight finance ministers' meeting in June 2008. The administration ... ( read original story ...)

Osaka has been selected as the venue for the 2019 summit meeting ... Fukuoka is expected to host a summit for finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the G-20 economies. The summit date will likely be set for sometime between June and November ... ( read original story ...)

The Nikkei reported on Monday that the U.S. company is negotiating to add taxi operator Daiichi Koutsu Sangyo's vehicles to its network. "The Japanese taxi industry is [high] quality but it suffers from low utilization rates," Khosrowshahi said. ( read original story ...)