Half of Japan’s eateries plan price hikes this year

TOKYO -- Spending more on ingredients and increasingly scarce workers, nearly half of restaurant operators in Japan plan to raise prices this fiscal year, a Nikkei survey shows. The poll from mid-March to late April targeted 551 companies with food service ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei pulls back from 3-month high as Asian markets dip

Japan’s Nikkei NIK, -0.18% closed down 0.2%, after hitting a 3½-month high in Monday trading. Miners, banks and insurance companies led the losses in Tokyo, with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 8306, -0.24% and MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Post Bank picks up stocks as yen risks seen subdued: CIO

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Post Bank has been buying local stocks since February’s major correction in global share prices, its chief investment officer said on Tuesday, as the risk of a spike in the yen, which would hurt stock valuations, is seen as limited. ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan signals rethink on buying ETFs

"The BOJ could have started stealth tapering. Or it could be just slowing down the pace after it bought too much in February and March," said Shingo Ide, a strategist at NLI Research Institute. Noriko Hayashi The question of when the Bank of Japan should ... ( read original story ...)

Banks in Japan aim to hold on to savings of dead clients

a manager at Mie Bank in western Japan. It plans to start selling such trusts in July in partnership with Mizuho Financial Group Inc., the nation’s third-largest banking group. Banks began offering such trusts about a decade ago, and more than 150,000 ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan : Accounts (May 20)

Pecuniary trusts (index-linked exchange-traded funds held as trust property) 5 19,657,773,241 Pecuniary trusts (Japan real estate investment trusts held as trust property) 6 473,442,530 ( read original story ...)

Nikkei rises as U.S.-China trade tensions put “on hold”

TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average rose on Monday morning as exporters were boosted by a rise in the dollar rise against the yen. The dollar’s rise followed news of an easing in U.S.-China trade tensions, offsetting weakness in ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks open higher as yen eases

Tokyo stocks opened higher on Monday supported by a cheaper ... The dollar firmed slightly after the finance ministry said Japan's overall trade surplus jumped 30 percent while its politically sensitive trade surplus with the US edged up 4.7 percent ... ( read original story ...)