Stocks in Australia, Japan and South Korea saw declines in the morning. Overnight on Wall Street, the major stock indexes saw a sell-off, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging by more than 60... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan’s Hoard of Assets Is Now Bigger Than the Economy
(Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan’s massive asset purchase program has taken it into uncharted territory, with its ballooning holdings now larger than the country’s annual economic output. Its holding ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan’s balance sheet now larger than country’s GDP
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s central bank has become the first among G7 nations to own assets collectively worth more than the country’s entire economy, following a half-decade spending spree ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Aso: will meet U.S. VP Pence but not as part of econ dialogue
TOKYO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said he was ... besides trade policy that they could discuss. Pence, in Japan on Tuesday during a visit to Asia, will meet Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese fear automation will take more jobs than foreigners
TOKYO -- The Japanese public is happier about the economy than at any time in nearly two decades, though few think the next generation will have it as good. People's biggest fear is automation ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area
Tokyo proper is strongly inclined toward light industry. Most of Japan’s books and much of its electronic equipment, for instance, are produced there. More noteworthy than the concentration of industr... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s prime minister calls for public works spending plan to help lift the economy
Japan's economy is forecast to contract in July to September, and a recent slump in machinery orders suggests any rebound in the following quarters is likely to be weak if exports and business ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s SoftBank steps closer to transformation with mammoth mobile IPO
SoftBank Group Corp has won approval to conduct a 2.4 trillion yen ($21.04-billion) initial public offering (IPO) of its domestic telecoms business, in a deal that will seal the group’s transformation ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei edges up in choppy trade, defensive shares outperform
TOKYO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei edged up in choppy trade on Monday as buying of cheapened stocks was largely offset by cautious sentiment driven by weakness on Wall Street and falling U.S. te... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s SoftBank steps closer to transformation with $21 billion mobile IPO
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp's domestic telecoms unit on Monday received approval to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange through one of the biggest-ever initial public offerings (IPO) a... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 Olympics Implicated In Sourcing Tainted Wood: Activists Claim
“BNI has committed to be a pioneer in sustainable finance,” said Edi Sutrisno from TuK-Indonesia ... and supplying plywood from those mills for the construction of Tokyo 2020 Olympics venues. Photogra... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank’s mobile unit launches $21 billion IPO: filing
domestic telecoms unit on Monday received approval to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in an initial public offering (IPO) worth 2.4 trillion yen ($21.04 billion), a regulatory filing showed, one of t... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank Unveils $21 Billion IPO of Japan Mobile Business
(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking to raise 2.4 trillion yen ($21.1 billion) in the initial public offering of its domestic telecom operations scheduled for Dec. 19. The Japanese technolog... ( read original story ...)
Activist funds jump 50% to hit record levels in Japan
IR Japan, one of the country's leading investor ... rock star," Oasis Chief Operating Officer Phillip Meyer told the Nikkei Asian Review. Not counting Kumagai's shares, company data shows that ... ( read original story ...)
Is Shinzo Abe offering Japan’s Samurai bonds as a foil against China’s debt diplomacy?
Now, whether by intention or otherwise, Abe’s agreement to give a government guarantee via the official Japan Bank for International Cooperation to Malaysian borrowing through the Samurai market - whe... ( read original story ...)
Russian state bank secretly financed Rosneft sale after foreign buyers baulked
Japan’s Ministry of Economy ... In the past, Rosneft had gone to major Western banks, such as Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan, to finance transactions, but the big international lenders have announced no ... ( read original story ...)