US Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class James Thierry TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the Ronald Reagan, is conducting drills with a Japanese warship in waters around Okinawa southwest of the Korean peninsula, Japan's military ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei index just closed at its highest level since 1996
Defensive stocks lead gains, turnover lacklustre. Kobe Steel plunges 20% to near 1-year low TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share index closed at its highest in 21 years on Wednesday, with gains mainly led by defensive shares, though exporters benefitted ... ( read original story ...)
Amazon Business expands to Japan and India
Amazon Business is now available on Amazon Japan and Amazon India, meaning that it is now live in five countries including the United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Amazon Business helps business customers meet a wide range of procurement needs with ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese stock market hits 21-year closing high – business live
Boom! World stock markets have hit a new all time high. MSCI’s All-World stocks index, which tracks 2,400 companies around the globe, has inched up to 493.31 points this morning. Photograph: MSCI That’s partly due to the Nikkei’s surge to a two ... ( read original story ...)
World stock markets hit record highs as Catalonia independence crisis eases – business live
Photograph: MSCI That’s partly due to the Nikkei’s surge to a two-decade closing high in Japan today. The rally in Spanish stocks and bonds this morning is also helping. David Meier, economist at Julius Baer, says the news that Catalonia plans to ... ( read original story ...)
Japan core machinery orders rise in August for second straight month
Japan’s core machinery orders rose for a second straight ... by 7.7 percent in the current fiscal year ending in March 2018, underscoring the view business expenditure is on a firm footing. A sustained recovery in business expenditure should support ... ( read original story ...)
IMF raises Japan growth forecast to 1.5% as broad-based global recovery ‘gathers steam’
The 2018 growth estimate for Japan was revised up 0.1 point to 0.7 percent ... citing supportive financial conditions and strong business and consumer confidence. But the forecast does not take into account a fiscal stimulus from planned tax cuts that ... ( read original story ...)
Smell of decaying corpse concealed by rotting garbage in Osaka residence
Last month, Osaka Prefectural Police twice arrested Itsuko Yamaguchi ... “Garbage was piled from the floor to the ceiling in the two-room apartment,” a local news reporter says. “Yamaguchi existed in a small sliver of space. It took police 20 ... ( read original story ...)
Why You Seriously Have to Consider Hawaii on Your Next Trip
here’s good news for you. You can now easily reach Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii, by hopping onto AirAsia X flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which on top of a two-hour stopover in Osaka, Japan, will fly you straight to sunny paradise. Just in time ... ( read original story ...)
BOJ Governor Kuroda pledges to stick with quantitative easing
Kimihiro Eto, BOJ's Osaka branch manager, offered an explanation of why inflation remains so low. “We see rising spending on big-ticket items due to rising wages and a tight labour market,” he said. “At the same time, households are really hunting ... ( read original story ...)
Politically savvy teen in Mino casts first early vote in Lower House election
OSAKA – An 18-year-old high school student Wednesday cast ... Nakagawa said she keeps up-to-date on politics through the news and parliamentary broadcasts and discusses the issues with her father. She said she chose her party and candidate based on ... ( read original story ...)
Super Famicom Mini Greatly Outsold Famicom Mini In Japan
The picture in Japan appears to be much the same, with Famitsu reporting that 368,000 units of the Super Famicom Mini sold in the first 4 days in Japan. By comparison, the Famicom Mini sold 262,000 in Japan in the same time period last year. Please note ... ( read original story ...)
Japan August core machinery orders rise in signs of pick-up in capex
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core machinery orders rose for a second straight month in August, handily beating market expectations, signaling a pickup in capital expenditure that should encourage Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead of a general election this month. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s metals scandal spreads
Kobe Steel, one of Japan's oldest industrial companies ... Stephen Stapczynski and Sungwoo Park of Bloomberg News. ( read original story ...)
Locals warned to stay away as Japanese volcano erupts
Japan, with scores of active volcanoes ... share up to 5 gadgets, listen to the news, download as early as 4am & share articles on social media. Call 896 6000. ( read original story ...)
Japan steel scandal grows as more carmakers hit
Top Japanese automakers said Wednesday they were scrambling to assess the safety of vehicles containing products from Kobe Steel (Other OTC: KBSTF - news) , which has admitted falsifying quality data in a growing scandal. Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi ... ( read original story ...)