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The Bank of Japan should accept it is making no headway in its efforts to spur 2 percent inflation and start normalizing policy, according to Tokyo University professor Tsutomu Watanabe, a former BOJ official and long-time advocate of the price goal. ( read original story ...)

LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) - Britain's Centrica and Japan's Tokyo Gas aim to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Anadarko Petroleum's $20 billion (£15 billion) project in Mozambique, the first joint procurement deal designed to defuse risks facing the buyers ... ( read original story ...)

CALGARY — South Korea has joined Japan in suspending trade in Canadian wheat following the discovery of a small number of genetically modified plants in southern Alberta. It's standard protocol in both countries to temporarily close markets in such cases ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese stocks fell on Monday morning as an escalating ... Osaka Gas (9532.T) stumbled 3.4 percent. The Nikkei share average .N225 dropped 1.0 percent to 22,635.60 in midmorning trade, after falling to as low as 22,626.07, the lowest ... ( read original story ...)

The spread of online shopping in Japan is dragging down consumer inflation, the central bank said, highlighting the “Amazon effect” on prices and the challenges policy makers face as they try to pull the world’s third-biggest economy out of years of ... ( read original story ...)

PUTRAJAYA: Several Japanese banking institutions are receptive towards extending yen credit in the form of soft loans to Malaysia, said Japanese ambassador to Malaysia Dr Makio Miyagawa. He said the Japanese prime minister sent a “clear-cut” message ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - When flea market app Mercari (:4385.T) makes its market debut on Tuesday, it will mark the appearance of one of Japan's rarest beasts: a tech unicorn. In most countries, a billion-dollar IPO might suggest the return of an equity boom. ( read original story ...)

Japan was clearly marginalized in the run-up to and during the June 12 summit between the U.S. and North Korean leaders in Singapore. The dynamics suggest that Tokyo will not play any significant role in the follow-up negotiations. There is no way to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook Osaka, Japan's second-biggest metropolis, early on Monday morning, killing three people, halting factory lines in a key industrial area and bursting water mains, government officials and broadcaster NHK said. ( read original story ...)

The Japanese city of Osaka has been struck by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake causing fatalities, damage and widespread disruption to transport. There were three reported deaths according to broadcaster NHK, including a nine year-old girl who was killed by a ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo — The Bank of Japan (BoJ) downgraded its view on inflation on Friday, in a fresh blow to its long-held 2% price goal, giving the central bank barely any room to manoeuvre as it tries to map a path to roll back its crisis-era stimulus. As widely ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s central bank maintained its ultra-loose monetary policy on Friday and downgraded its view on inflation, signaling that it will lag well behind its US and European peers in rolling back crisis-era stimulus. Markets are on the lookout for clues ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese yen would have been expected to weaken on the Bank of Japan’s cautious policy update, but instead it defended its modest gains against the dollar, as traders deemed trade war fears more important the ultraloose BOJ status quo. The yen is not ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan on Friday downgraded its view on inflation in a fresh blow to its long-held 2 per cent price goal, giving the central bank barely any room to manoeuvre as it tries to map a path to roll back its crisis-era stimulus. As widely expected ... ( read original story ...)

CALGARY — The Canadian government is trying to reassure Japan and other trading partners that genetically modified wheat found in southern Alberta is limited to a few plants growing along a remote access road and has not been detected in the wider supply. ( read original story ...)

CALGARY — The chairman of the Alberta Wheat Commission says Japan has temporarily halted shipments after some unauthorized genetically modified wheat was found in southern Alberta. Kevin Bender says he hopes the suspension of imports is short-lived. ( read original story ...)