The new Philippine Airlines (PAL) daily flights between Nagoya and Cebu scheduled to begin March 31, 2019 are expected to boost tourist arrivals from Japan this year. The daily Nagoya-Cebu flight rout... ( read original story ...)
Japan services PMI at a three month low in December
TOKYO -- Japan's service sector growth slowed down in December with a weaker rise in new sales dampening output growth. The Nikkei Japan Services Purchasing Manager's Index, or PMI, recorded a ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Firms Have $890 Billion in Cash. Here’s Where They Might Spend It
(Bloomberg) -- Japan outmuscled China to dominate mergers and acquisitions in Asia last year, and with companies in possession of more than $890 billion in cash, the spending spree is likely to contin... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s Nikkei opens up more than 3%
Tokyo (AFP) - Tokyo stocks opened up more than ... But investors perked up on the positive news from the US, where the Dow Jones finished up 3.3 percent on Friday. "The Nikkei index gained across ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan’s nightmare year
If you think Jerome Powell faces a difficult 2019 as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, consider what awaits Haruhiko Kuroda at the Bank of Japan. The New Year usually gets off to a slow start ... ( read original story ...)
Solasia Initiates Phase III Program for PledOx® in Japan
Following Japan, Solasia will also initiate in South Korea ... PledPharma (STO: PLED) is listed on Nasdaq First North. Erik Penser Bank is the companys Certified Adviser (tel +46 8 463 80 00). For mor... ( read original story ...)
Japan December services sector PMI shows weakest growth in 3 months
TOKYO, (Reuters) - Growth in Japan's services sector slipped in December to the slowest in three months on some reduction of momentum in generating new business at the end of the year, a private showe... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s $9 departure tax goes into effect
TOKYO -- Japan on Monday introduced a departure tax of 1,000 yen ($9.20) for each person leaving the country by plane or ship, the first new tax in 27 years. The tax will be tacked onto the price ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese stocks join global sell-off after Apple China warning
(CNN) - Japan is playing catch-up in the global stocks rout. The country's Nikkei index dropped more than 3% Friday morning, in the market's first day of trading following the New Year break. "For Jap... ( read original story ...)
Rocky Japan and US stocks drive investors to haven assets
Japan's benchmark Nikkei Stock Average, meanwhile, plummeted by more than 700 points during the first trading day of the year on Friday before ending 452 points down at 19,561, a 2% decline from ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s Nikkei index closes down more than 2% in first trading day of 2019
The broader Topix index lost 1.53 percent or 22.93 points to 1,471.16. Tokyo's key Nikkei index plunged more than two percent on Friday, hit by a surge in the yen and sell-offs on Wall Street amid wor... ( read original story ...)
Mizuho Bank prepares roll out of proprietary digital currency
Mizuho Bank is to launch its well-trailed proprietary digital currency in March, with the support of 60 regional domestic banks. Reports first surfaced in September of last year that a consortium of b... ( read original story ...)
Iconic Japanese newspaper in Brazil closes after 72 years
but that "ended with internet and the NHK Japanese news channel," said Eduardo Nakashima, secretary general of the Brazil-Japan Cultural Alliance. In Liberdade, Nobukazu Kanomata, an 83-year-old ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka says she had ‘worst attitude’ in loss
US Open champion Naomi Osaka said she had “the worst attitude” in her loss to Lesia Tsurenko in the Brisbane International semi-finals. The Japanese second seed was visibly frustrated as she was beate... ( read original story ...)
Bluefin tuna sells for record $3M at Tokyo auction
Tokyo -- A 612-pound bluefin tuna sold for a record 333.6 million ... On a normal day a similar sized fish would sell for around $60,000, BBC News' Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyok. Saturday ... ( read original story ...)
Bluefin tuna sold for US$3 million in 1st 2019 sale at Tokyo market
TOKYO -- A 612-pound (278-kilogram) bluefin tuna sold for a record 333.6 million yen (US$3 million) at the first auction of 2019, after Tokyo's famed Tsukiji market was moved to a new site on the city ... ( read original story ...)