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Two years after buying the Financial Times, Nikkei Inc. is using the salmon-colored broadsheet to break into the education business of its former owner, Pearson Plc, with a plan to market FT-branded English courses in Japan. The FT e-learning product ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-based Fringe81, the Japanese startup offering several adtech solutions, announced today that its IPO application to the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been approved. The company will be listed on the TSE Mothers Market on 27 June with plans to offer ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 23 Japanese stocks were flat on Tuesday morning as a risk-averse mood kept investors sidelined following an explosion in the English city of Manchester, which lifted the safe-haven yen and depressed some export-oriented shares. The Nikkei share ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO Japan must adhere to the government's goal to achieve a balanced budget by the fiscal year ending in March 2021, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, in a resolve to push for fiscal consolidation to fix the country's tattered finances. Aso made the pledge ... ( read original story ...)

Monetary policy can stymie or enhance free trade and global economic growth. And one of the biggest influencers of monetary policy in the world is the Bank of Japan. Gerard Baker, editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, sat down with the bank’s ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's 10 new entrants to the banking sector, such as Sony Bank, recorded a 10% rise on the year in their total deposit balance to more than 17 trillion yen ($152 billion) as of the end of March 2017. Improved convenience looks to have attracted ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO May 22 Fears that the Bank of Japan is scaling back its massive bond buying programme rippled through corporate bond markets on Monday as traders rushed to dump their holdings at an auction, pushing yields to a 1-1/2 year high. Sellers offered 403 ... ( read original story ...)

Mizuho Financial Group Inc.’s investment bank is targeting a bigger share of global financial bond deals as it seeks more profits overseas and expands its debt capital markets business at home and abroad. The Japanese bank has managed $8.7 billion of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO Japan must deliver a strong message on free trade at this month's summit meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven nations, Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday. Aso was speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting. (Reporting by Takashi ... ( read original story ...)

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OSAKA -- The Kinki Local Finance Bureau asked a real estate appraiser to consider incorporating a cost of 500 million yen for foundation work into the price of a site in Osaka Prefecture where a now scandal-hit education institution planned to open an ... ( read original story ...)

Exports rose 7.5 percent in April from a year ago, below the median estimate of 7.8 percent annual growth, finance ministry data showed on Monday. It followed a 12.0 percent rise in March. Japan's exports rose in April to mark their fifth straight month of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 22 Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Monday morning following gains in U.S. shares, but the dollar's weakness and U.S. political turmoil kept investors nervous and limited gains in the market. The Nikkei rose 0.3 percent to 19,653.32 in ... ( read original story ...)

In February 2015, bankers working on Japan's biggest IPO in three decades woke to news that left them shaken. Their client had just closed a multi-billion dollar deal - but had kept them firmly out of the loop. Just months ahead of its listing, state-owned ... ( read original story ...)

It turns out, the IPO was going to be May 18th—one day before the secret ... That brings us to today. Some years we’ve gone to Japan or France. This year we’re traveling around the U.S. and we’ll be spending our honeymoon in rural Maine.” ( read original story ...)

Japan and China. Using PetroRabigh, S-Oil and Showa Shell Sekiyu as a combined benchmark to calculate the valuation of Aramco’s downstream business yields about $33 billion. Within Aramco today, the IPO of PetroRabigh is seen as a sore chapter ... ( read original story ...)