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TOKYO -- Investors are piling into Japanese companies that serve international visitors ... Shiseido's shares have surged 19%, and Don Quijote's more than 6%, since Feb. 6, when the Nikkei Stock Average tumbled 1,071 points. The index itself has rallied ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan has secured the rights to develop an oil field in Abu Dhabi for an additional 40 years, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said on Monday. State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil and Inpex agreed to renew Japan's interests in the field ... ( read original story ...)

Of Tokyo's 33 sub-indexes, 31 gained, with defensive stocks like pharmaceuticals in the lead. TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei share average rose to near three-week highs on Monday, with most sectors advancing as investor confidence continued to improve after Wall ... ( read original story ...)

The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics has been hailed as the most tech-centric ever, but Tokyo now wants to beat that record in 2020. Masa Takaya, spokesperson for The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, told CNBC on "Squawk Box ... ( read original story ...)

Asian indexes were higher to start the week after a rally on Wall Street Friday with Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average leading. The Nikkei NIK, +0.82% was up 1% amid a modest drop for the yen from Friday’s Asian levels. Export and drug stocks were among ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan has a reputation as a difficult place for entrepreneurs to drum up money, yet startups have been striking big fundraising deals in recent years. As a major venture capital player, Jafco is in the thick of the action. The Nikkei spoke with ... ( read original story ...)

Japan produced more than 100 IPOs annually through the early ... Among startup-heavy indexes, the Nikkei Jasdaq Stock Average marked an all-time high on Jan. 26. Although the blue chip Nikkei Stock Average has sunk 4% year to date, the Nikkei Jasdaq ... ( read original story ...)

A critical report by the group could result in sanctions that could include shunning Japanese banks out of the global banking network. “Even a single financial institution with low-level anti-money laundering and terrorist-financing measures is enough to ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Nikkei 225 has ridden the same roller-coaster ride that the rest of world markets have been on in the past several months: It saw gains of 25 percent between early September and late January, when the index topped 24,000 to establish its high ... ( read original story ...)

As it has multiplied, it has developed in different forms in different countries. But where is Japan in #MeToo? The answer is nowhere, really, and that for me is troubling. It is not as if Japan is some sort of nirvana, free of sexual harassment. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese telecommunications company NTT is hoping to bring an added dimension to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by projecting live sporting events with its 3D hologram technology. NTT has been working on a new system it calls "Kirari! For Arena ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top financial diplomat Masatsugu Asakawa said on Thursday that G20 finance leaders would raise the issue of cryptocurrencies at their meeting in Buenos Aires in March. Asakawa, vice finance minister for international affairs ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-based SoftBank has yet to send out so-called requests ... Getting involved early may help Japan’s biggest brokerage win a lucrative global coordinator role for the IPO, which could become the country’s largest debut share sale since NTT DoCoMo ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan should consider buying foreign bonds as part of efforts to reflate the economy during Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s second term at the central bank helm, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. The BOJ is ... ( read original story ...)

Nobukazu Teranishi, an award-winning Japanese engineer whose innovations can be found in almost every digital image capturing device, says technical people should be more highly valued in his home country. In an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review ... ( read original story ...)

But despite the popularity of internet banking, the retail bank experience in Japan appears little changed from a decade or two ago. Personal attention to the customer and a thick, sturdy passbook are still regarded as hallmarks of quality in Japan's banks ... ( read original story ...)