Although Asia-Pacific markets were mixed on Friday, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index was a beneficiary of a potentially positive shift in President Donald Trump’s trade policies. According to a CNBC ...
Japan fentanyl report will not affect US talks: foreign minister
TOKYO -- A Nikkei report that uncovered Japan's role in the fentanyl supply chain is unlikely to affect Japan-U.S. trade discussions, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Friday. "At this stage, I do ...
Could Japan’s Crypto Shake-Up Push Neo Pepe’s ($NEOP) Presale as 2025’s Next Huge Market Win?
Japan Crypto Crackdown Turns Investor Heads Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is changing the crypto rules by introducing a proposal to classify digital assets as financial products under its ...
Japan’s Nikkei hits 40,000 level, ends at 6-month high tracking Wall Street rally
Japan's Nikkei surged to a six-month high, closing at 40,150.79, driven by technology stocks mirroring Wall Street's gains. The index recorded its best week since September 2024, climbing 4.6%.
Japan’s finance minister leaves open chance of future bond buyback
Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday the government will continue "careful consideration" on whether to buy back super-long bonds in the future, suggesting the option remains on the ...
Japan’s NTT lodges listing prospectus for Reit, set to be Singapore’s largest IPO in four years
SINGAPORE] Japanese telco Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) is spinning off some of its data centres into a Singapore-listed real estate investment trust, or S-Reit, marking what is likely to be ...
NTT Data Group Moves Ahead With Singapore’s Biggest IPO in Years
Japan’s NTT Data Group has filed an initial public offering prospectus for its Singapore REIT that could be the biggest such deal in the city-state in nearly eight years.
House Plans Single Vote to Move Genius and Clarity Crypto Bills
House Republicans aim to get the Senate’s landmark stablecoin legislation — known as the Genius Act — to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature as soon as the week of July 7, according to people ...
Japan has no recorded case of fentanyl seized, finance minister says
Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday there have been no recorded cases of synthetic drug fentanyl being seized by the customs department, neither as illegal exports nor illegal ...
Japanese Stocks Rally on Fed Rate Cut Hopes, Nikkei Hits 40,000
Japanese stocks rose tracking Wall Street’s gains as hopes of US interest rate cuts solidified and after US and China finalized a trade understanding. The Nikkei benchmark rose past the 40,000 mark ...
Japanese rubber futures extend gains on supply woes
SINGAPORE: Japanese rubber futures rose for a second straight session on Thursday, tracking the Nikkei upwards, ...
Crypto Industry Moves Into the U.S. Housing Market
Americans are finding ways to use digital currencies to help them buy homes, and new companies are forming to help people tap their home’s value to buy Bitcoin.
Owning crypto might soon help you get a mortgage
Trump's housing chief said he had directed Fannie and Freddie to come up with proposals to start counting crypto as an asset in mortgage risk assessment.
Japan to establish guidelines for chip industry cybersecurity
TOKYO -- The Japanese government will compile guidelines by around this fall for semiconductor plants on how to deal with cyberattacks, looking to spur the development of ways to minimize damage and ...
Nikkei rises to 5-month high as Middle East calm boosts tech shares
TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei share average touched its highest in almost five months on Thursday, as a period of calm in the Middle East encouraged investors to buy back riskier assets, particularly chip and ...
High-priced drones and Japan’s hidden AI champion
In a collaborative work by Nikkei Asia's Lauly Li and Cheng Ting-Fang in Taipei and Ryohtaroh Satoh in Tokyo, they explain how this relatively little-known AI-enabler is currently the only company in ...