TOKYO Dec 2 Japan's Nikkei share average was poised for a weekly gain but dipped as investors locked in gains ahead of U.S. jobs data later in the session, with losses kept in check as higher Japanese yields lifted financial shares. The Nikkei was down 0.5 ... ( read original story ...)
Asian stocks higher with Nikkei headed for best close of 2016
Asian stock markets were broadly up early Thursday, with Japan’s Nikkei on track for its highest close this year, after major oil-producing nations signed a deal to cut crude-oil output. The Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +1.12% gained 1.1% to 18,513.2 in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Exchange Group Launch Their Own Blockchain Consortium
Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) has announced today that TSE, Osaka Exchange, Inc. (OSE) and Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC) will form a consortium of Japanese financial institutions to continue proof of concept (PoC) testing and discuss the ... ( read original story ...)
Universal Theme Parks To Bring Nintendo Video-Game Worlds To Life
Comcast-owned Universal Parks & Resorts plans to open themed areas based on Nintendo video games at its parks in Orlando, Hollywood and Osaka, Japan. ( read original story ...)
Universal Parks & Resorts And Nintendo Will Bring The Fun Of Nintendo To Life With Expansive, Highly …
In addition, Comcast NBCUniversal owns a 51 percent majority interest in Universal Studios Japan, in Osaka and has a license agreement with Universal Studios Singapore at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore. The company has also announced plans for a theme ... ( read original story ...)
Valuation of Game Swaptions under the Generalized Ho-Lee Model
1 Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Osaka ... Term Structure Movements and Pricing Interest Rate Contingent Claims. The Journal of Finance, 41, 1011-1029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.1986.tb02528.x [3] van der Hoek, J. ( read original story ...)
Couple caught driving around with dead boy in trunk likely received child care allowances
The case is the latest in series that is drawing attention to child abuse by relatively young couples mired in financial trouble. The Osaka Prefectural Police arrested Rena Suzuki, 24, and her partner Yuta Oshima, 22, on Tuesday on suspicion of abandoning ... ( read original story ...)
Takeda to Invest More Than 100 Million Euros in Dengue Vaccine Manufacturing Plant in Germany
KONSTANZ, Germany & OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 29, 2016--Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TOKYO:4502) (“Takeda”) today announced that it will invest more than 100 Million Euros to build a new manufacturing plant for its dengue vaccine ... ( read original story ...)
Peach signs for 10 A320neos, 3 A320s
The three CFM International CFM56-5B-powered A320s will be delivered within the 2018 financial year. Peach Aviation is a low-cost airline based at Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan. ( read original story ...)
Intraoperative Manipulation for Flexion Contracture During Total Knee Arthroplasty
The authors have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. The authors thank Biomet Japan Inc, Tokyo, Japan, for providing the cadavers for this study. Correspondence should be addressed to: Yoshio Matsui, MD, Osaka City General Hospital ... ( read original story ...)
Japan culling 230,000 more birds over avian flu
Japan has mobilised its military to help with a second mass cull of 230,000 chickens amid a spreading outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, officials said. The highly virulent H5 strain was found in chickens at a farm in Joetsu city in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Exchange Group unveils blockchain consortium
See image below: Unsurprisingly, other blockchain consortia have news to share. Here are a few. The name may not be catchy but “The Japan Bank Consortium to Centrally Provide Domestic and Cross-border Payments” officially launched with 42 member banks. ( read original story ...)
BOJ policymaker pledges to maintain huge bond buying
OTSU, Japan Bank of Japan board member Makoto Sakurai said the central bank will continue to buy massive amounts of government bonds even under a new policy framework targeting interest rates, shrugging off the view that its bond-buying programme was ... ( read original story ...)
Blockchain Works and Reduces Costs: Japanese Banking Industry Report
Japan’s Blockchain Study Group, consisting of four large financial and accounting firms, today published a report on how blockchain technology will affect their industry. Local bitcoin exchange bitFlyer assisted the group by building an interbank ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese MegaBanks Partner Bitcoin Exchange, Pilot 1,500 Tns/Sec Over a Blockchain
Three of the biggest banking corporations in Japan have partnered bitFlyer, Japan’s biggest bitcoin exchange to test the viability of domestic money transfers over blockchain technology. The banks discovered that money transfers over a blockchain were ... ( read original story ...)
Central bank's rate focus hides urge to taper
TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan's interest rate-based monetary policy seems in part to be aimed at trimming bond purchases without angering easing hardliners or endangering progress toward inflation. Surging U.S. long-term interest rates in the wake of the ... ( read original story ...)