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In Asia, the dominant financial centres are Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong. There’s good reason for that. Japan is the world’s third largest economy so the Japanese multinationals listed in Tokyo give ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The traditionally prickly relationship between Japan and South Korea has become even more toxic after a flurry of political and diplomatic flare-ups over the issue of wartime Korean ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japanese shares shed more than 1 per cent on Tuesday, the first trading day after a long weekend, hurt by fresh jitters about the US-China trade war, turmoil in Hong Kong and a firmer yen that ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL -- In an apparent tit-for-tat move, South Korea said Monday it will remove Japan from its "whitelist" of trusted trade partners, an act that risks exacerbating tensions between the two U.S ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks closed down Tuesday as a stronger yen and falls on Wall Street and across the Asia region weighed on the market after three days of holidays. The benchmark Nikkei-225 index lost 1.11 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan hit back at South Korea on Tuesday for removing Tokyo's fast-track trade status, with the industry minister saying Seoul had failed to explain its reason for the move -- the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's fast-approaching consumption tax increase, to 10% from 8% in October, is bringing back some painful memories. The creation of the tax and subsequent increases have doomed prime ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL -- South Korea may control the export of DRAM chips to Japan in retaliation against Tokyo's own export curbs, a director of the presidential Blue House told a local radio station. ( read original story ...)

South Korea is the fifth-largest importer of Japanese goods, while petroleum products, iron and steel products, and electrical machinery including semiconductors are the major South Korean imports to ... ( read original story ...)

Though owned and operated as a subsidiary of Japan's iconic Kirin Brewery, there is no Kirin logo to be seen. "We want to convey to our customers the joy of beer, not the name of Kirin itself ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Changing sea temperatures are making popular fish harder to come by in Japan, driving up prices for dinner table mainstays. The port of Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture -- Japan's top ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The aggregate net profit among Japanese corporations decreased for the third quarter in a row, Nikkei has found, indicating the lasting and far-reaching effects of the U.S.-China trade ... ( read original story ...)

Osaka prosecutors have closed their investigation into the dubious sale of state-owned land to the Moritomo Gakuen educational institution as well as the Finance Ministry’s tampering and discarding of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will pledge over 300 billion yen ($2.84 billion) in assistance to Africa at a development conference later this month, seeking to encourage transparent infrastructure development on ... ( read original story ...)

went public on July 31 and is only the second restaurant IPO of 2019 after Luckin Coffee debuted in May. Should investors take a bite? Kura Sushi USA is the American subsidiary of Kura Japan, a ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – The Osaka District Public Prosecutor’s Office decided again on Friday not to indict former senior Finance Ministry bureaucrat Nobuhisa Sagawa and nine others over the Moritomo Gakuen cronyism ... ( read original story ...)