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Japanese stocks rose on Friday morning as technology firms such as Tokyo Electron and Advantest jumped in sympathy with a rebound in their U.S. counterparts, which were battered this week on concerns over possible government regulation. The Nikkei rose 1.0 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Thursday morning as a weaker yen lifted risk sentiment, but Takeda Pharmaceutical stumbled after it said it was considering a bid for London-listed Shire that could top $40 billion. ( read original story ...)

Overnight, the S&P 500 slipped 0.3%, while the Dow and the Nasdaq fell 0.1% and 0.9% respectively. Japan’s Nikkei 225 outperformed its regional peers and jumped 1% by 9:38PM ET (01:38 GMT), with a weaker yen being cited as supportive. Softbank Corp. (T ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Thursday, helped by gains in domestic-demand stocks, but Takeda Pharmaceutical stumbled after it said it was considering a bid for London-listed Shire that could top $40 billion. The Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Nikkei Markets) -- Asian stocks outside of Japan edged higher, even as traders stayed on the sidelines ahead of a long weekend amid concern over U.S. and China trade relations and an ongoing selloff for U.S. technology stocks. The Nikkei Asia300 ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has told the nation's legislature that a bilateral trade deal with the US could produce more risks than benefits for Japan's economy. Kristian Rouz — Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso voiced his opposition to the idea ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fair Trade Commission on Thursday said Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N) and Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) had violated Japan's antitrust laws in alleged bond-price fixing by London-based traders in 2012, because it involved a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Fair Trade Commission on Thursday warned Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N) and Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) over alleged bond-price fixing by London-based traders in 2012, saying it violated Japan’s antitrust laws because it ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Former Finance Ministry official Nobuhisa Sagawa insisted in testimony before both houses of the Diet on Tuesday that there were no instructions to alter documents at the center of a dodgy real estate deal, but offered no insights into the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Major Japanese companies have seen unrealized capital gains on ... as of Tuesday at 1,701 listed companies that close their books in March, according to a Nikkei survey that excluded financial institutions as well as businesses using international ... ( read original story ...)

Nobuhisa Sagawa, who was the head of the ministry's Financial Bureau when the changes were made, faced grilling by lawmakers Tuesday about the circumstances and motives. The documents concern the steeply discounted sale of state-owned land in Osaka to ... ( read original story ...)

Deputy Vice Finance Minister Koji Yano has insisted that "it is beyond ... a private school in the city of Osaka which inculcates in its young students the patriotism and self-sacrifice... "This problem has shaken the people's confidence in the ... ( read original story ...)

Stocks soared Tuesday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with concerns over a U.S.-China ... the Nikkei rose further in the afternoon, after former Ministry of Finance official Nobuhisa Sagawa in a sworn Diet testimony denied there were instructions from the ... ( read original story ...)

He added that Abe's Cabinet secretary and finance minister were also unaware of the alterations. Read more: Japan's Finance Ministry admits to doctoring documents linked to Abe's wife But Sagawa, who recently resigned as head of the National Tax Office in ... ( read original story ...)

The Asahi Shimbun in February 2017 broke the news that Moritomo Gakuen received a huge discount on its purchase of state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, in 2016. Kagoike told the politicians that after the report was published, a Finance Ministry ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his wife, Finance Minister Taro Aso and their top aides did not give instructions to change documents about a land deal at the heart of a suspected cronyism scandal, a former finance ministry official ... ( read original story ...)