TOKYO -- Seeking to curb a growing outbreak of gold smuggling, Japan's Ministry of Finance will install metal detector gates at the customs areas of airports with heavy international traffic, such as Narita and Haneda. Currently, travelers entering Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Japan commission supports nuclear power despite Fukushima
TOKYO — Japan’s nuclear policy-setting Atomic Energy Commission has issued a report calling for nuclear energy to remain a key component of the country’s energy mix despite broad public support for a less nuclear-reliant society. The annual report ... ( read original story ...)
JAPAN: Nikkei up another +0.5% overnight, taking its 3-day rip to +3.1% and back above @Hedgeye TREND
08:00a Toshiba to step up chip talks with Bain, Western Digital still in running: Ni.. 07:12a Toshiba to step up chip talks with Bain, Western Digital still in running: Ni.. 06:49a Toshiba to step up chip talks with Bain, Western Digital still in running -Ni. ( read original story ...)
One of Central Ohio’s largest commercial lenders acquired by Tokyo buyer
Lancaster Pollard joins Red Capital Group, which has offices in downtown Columbus, as a subsidiary of ORIX USA Corp., an arm of publicly owned ORIX Corp. out of Tokyo. Boston Financial Investment Management is another subsidiary of the company that ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s MUFG says picks Amsterdam as EU investment banking base
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFG) said it has picked Amsterdam as its European Union investment banking base, as financial institutions prepare for Britain’s exit from the EU. Japan’s largest lender is following the ... ( read original story ...)
Thai SMEs visit Japanese firms aimed at elderly market
... UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan’s largest financial group, to facilitate the trip to several ageing-related businesses. The project also gained support from the Thai Trade Centre in Osaka and the Osaka Prefectural Government. Pornsanong Tuchinda ... ( read original story ...)
Skkynet to Hold OPC UA Sandpit Event in Osaka
12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skkynet Cloud Systems, Inc. (“Skkynet” or “the Company”) (OTCQB: SKKY), a global leader in real-time cloud information systems, is pleased to announce OSP 2017―OPC UA Sandpit―will be held in Osaka, Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Digital Realty (DLR) Expands in Australia With New Facility
Specifically, the company has a meaningful presence in the Asia Pacific region, operating a network of data centers situated in Singapore, Hong Kong, Osaka, Melbourne and ... to be immediately accretive to financial metrics. (Read more: Digital Realty ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM Abe: Want next BOJ head to focus on meeting price goal – Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he wants the country’s central bank to focus on monetary policies geared at achieving its 2 percent inflation target, regardless of who becomes the next Bank of Japan governor, the Nikkei newspaper ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 rejects NGO claims over timber providers
LIMA (Reuters) - Organisers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Tuesday rejected allegations by 47 non-governmental organisations that they had used companies with suspect logging track records, saying all material purchased was strictly regulated. In an open ... ( read original story ...)
Japan aims to raise around $12bn in postal giant share sale
Last year state-owned Kyushu Railway made its trading debut after raising some 416 billion yen in an IPO. Tokyo sold shares in the struggling regional railway, better known as JR Kyushu, in hopes of attracting big-saving Japanese households as part of ... ( read original story ...)
JAPAN: Nikkei rips a +2.6% 2-day move on Down Yen
09/10 #Thailand For Thailand's retail giant Central Group, it is no longer all in t.. 09/10 #Thailand For Thailand's retail giant Central Group, it is no longer all in t.. 09/08 US CLOSE Dow +13.01 (+0.06%) Nasdaq -37.68(-0.59%) S&P -0.15% FTSE -0.26%. ( read original story ...)
Japan trials driverless cars in bid to keep rural elderly on the move
NISHIKATA, Japan (Reuters) - As the annual rice harvest begins this month in the Japanese town of Nishikata, the combines that usually putter along the sleepy roads lining its rice fields are giving way to a vehicle residents have never before seen ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Backs U.S. Proposal to Target North Korea’s Oil Supplies
Japan backed a U.S. push for the United Nations Security Council to vote Monday on fresh sanctions against North Korea, saying that Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program poses the most serious threat since World War II. Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera on ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Q2 GDP Revised Down: ETFs in Focus
Japan’s GDP growth in the second quarter was a lot lower than initially estimated. Per government data released Sep 8, 2017, Japan’s economy grew an annualized 2.5% in the quarter compared with preliminary estimates of a 4% expansion. Although the ... ( read original story ...)
Investigation shifts to ministry in Moritomo land scandal
OSAKA--Prosecutors have obtained a recording of a Finance Ministry official telling a school operator about efforts to reduce the sales price of state-owned land “closer to zero” as requested, sources said. The former director of the school operator ... ( read original story ...)