Tag: finance

TOKYO -- Britain's move to finance much of a Hitachi nuclear power plant underscores how such projects have grown too costly for the private sector to bear alone, raising further questions about a key component of Japan's ambitious plans to export ... ( read original story ...)

Coinbase first announced in 2016 that it would open services in Japan, following an investment of $10.5 million from a group that included Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital. "As in other markets, we plan to take a deliberate approach ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – A group of citizens filed a petition with a prosecution inquest panel in Osaka on Tuesday to review prosecutors’ decision not to indict former and current Finance Ministry officials involved in the manipulation of official documents related to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters) - A recovery in Japanese shares ran out of steam on Tuesday as the Nikkei average faced stiff resistance at its 25-day average, but sentiment was underpinned by stellar U.S. jobs data last week and a weakening yen. The Nikkei share ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA -- The Ministry of Finance is poised to punish 20 officials over the altering of documents relating to the heavily discounted sale of state land in Osaka Prefecture to nationalist school operator Moritomo Gakuen, with a report on the case expected on ... ( read original story ...)

Bookbuilding for the IPO is scheduled to end on June 8. The company is due to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Mothers market on June 19. Morgan Stanley and Daiwa Securities are underwriting the offering. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average rose to a one-week high on Monday morning, tracking Friday’s Wall Street’s gains after May jobs data pointed to strength in the U.S. economy, while a weaker yen lifted shares of Japanese exporters. ( read original story ...)

Japan called on the United States to join forces in stopping China from taking market-distorting investment practices in a bilateral finance leaders' meeting, a senior Japanese finance ministry official said on Thursday. During the meeting with his U.S ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Food companies are watching with keen interest as researchers in Japan delve into the nuts and bolts of sensations like "crispness" and "springiness." Their findings are expected to lead to new and more appetizing products. Taste, aroma and ... ( read original story ...)

But many of the engineers interviewed by Nikkei complained that Japanese executives do not understand what the semiconductor business is all about. These engineers think this lack of aptitude led to poor and slow decision-making when it came to research ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei Centre has a truckload of books for you. The centre is hosting a book sale on June 8 to 9. Don’t miss this chance to buy hard-to-find Japanese-language books in Vancouver. The centre has over 40,000 used Japanese novels, manga, and children’s ... ( read original story ...)

Aso said while Japan was undecided on whether to file a challenge to the ... growth through free and fair trade,” Aso said on Friday after attending the G7 finance leaders’ gathering. Fears of a global trade war have overshadowed the G7 talks in ... ( read original story ...)

WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday he had told his G7 counterparts the group of advanced economies should send a message that it continues to watch market moves carefully. Aso also said while Japan was ... ( read original story ...)

Japan had 946,060 births in 2017 ... Babies born to foreign mothers increased 25% to 185,000 in 2017, accounting for nearly a quarter of all births. Nikkei staff writers Jun Ishikawa in Berlin and Manabu Morimoto in Brussels contributed to this report. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 31 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average on Thursday bounced back from a six-week low as worries over Italy’s political crisis receded. The Nikkei rose 0.83 percent to 22,201.82. On Wednesday, it hit 21,931.65, the lowest since April 18. ( read original story ...)

The U.S. president's newly-floated 25% tariff on imported autos has industry executives from Japan to Germany reconsidering their American consumer calculus. Sure, Nissan's move, reported by Nikkei on Tuesday, seems partly about reducing inventories and ... ( read original story ...)