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SoftBank Group will list approximately one third of its Japanese mobile business, SoftBank Corp, Nikkei has reported. The publication said the conglomerate would raise up to 2 trillion yen from the IPO, and would also list the telco overseas to be able to ... ( read original story ...)

The IPO would be one of Japan’s largest ever, with the 2 trillion yen SoftBank anticipates it will make coming close to the 2.2 trillion yen netted during the 1987 listing of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. In a statement on Monday, SoftBank refused ... ( read original story ...)

SOFIA (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borissov agreed Sunday to continue working together toward an early implementation of the Japan-EU free trade agreement as Sofia holds the EU's rotating presidency ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average tracked a rise in global equities and advanced on Monday, although the dollar's weakening against the yen capped gains. At 0145 GMT, the Nikkei .N225 was up 0.3 percent at 23,728.69, on track to have ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The government will help a Japanese corporate consortium win a bid for a high-speed rail project straddling Malaysia and Singapore, with plans to provide financial support through a public-private fund. The Malaysian and Singaporean governments ... ( read original story ...)

The parent will sell some 30 percent of SoftBank Corp. It plans to apply to the Tokyo Stock Exchange for the IPO as early as spring, which falls between March and May, and aims to debut the shares in Tokyo and elsewhere, possibly London, around autumn ... ( read original story ...)

The parent will sell some 30 percent of SoftBank Corp, aiming to debut the shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and elsewhere, possibly London, around autumn, the newspaper said, without citing any sources for the information. The IPO would rival the 2.2 ... ( read original story ...)

It seeks to gather funds from overseas investors as well due to the massive size of the IPO, which could rival the record 2.2 trillion yen that Nippon Telegraph and Telephone raised in 1987. SoftBank Group expanded in Japan with telecommunications as its ... ( read original story ...)

“The IPO was indeed a great step for us — like a ship departing from a harbor to embark on an ocean voyage,” Nagato, 69, said during a recent interview with The Japan Times at the postal giant’s headquarters in Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki distric ( read original story ...)

VILNIUS (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterparts from Latvia and Lithuania agreed Saturday to strengthen economic ties while seeking cooperation on the security front to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile ambitions. ( read original story ...)

VILNIUS (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday visited a memorial for late Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who is credited with helping some 6,000 Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution during World War II. Visiting Sugihara House in ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The term "SDG" has become the latest buzzword for corporate Japan as a growing number of companies look to integrate the United Nations' sustainable development goals into their operations. The 17 SDGs were set by the U.N. in 2015 to tackle global ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Some Japanese lodgings are getting into the art museum business. The reason is simple. "People spend at least seven to eight hours at a lodging facility," said Yoshitaka Yazu, an artist and proprietor of a new hostel, "so you can get them to spend ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels have been sent to waters off the Korean Peninsula since late last year in their first involvement in efforts to crack down on North Korea's attempts to evade international sanctions, government ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Nikkei share average edged lower on Thursday morning, hit by declines in automakers and electronic component makers as the strong yen soured investor appetite. The yen has risen this week after the Bank of Japan had on Tuesday trimmed its buying of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese production of industrial robots appears likely to rise 10% in value this year and hit 1 trillion yen ($8.99 billion) for the first time, the Japan Robot Association said Friday, as China feverishly automates factories amid a labor ... ( read original story ...)