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War is a costly venture. Before engaging in combat a nation needs to consider how it will finance expanding its military forces. The graph below shows Japan’s extensive military funding. With a government debt reaching over 400% of GDP, it surpassed all ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average edged down on Friday morning, trimming earlier gains in choppy trade and led lower by real estate stocks, though Sharp Corp soared after it announced a return to the bourse's main board. Traders said ... ( read original story ...)

That’s why a couple of throwaway lines from Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda in a Zurich speech last month has brought some cheer to Japanese government bond market players keen to close the books on 2017. It’s poised to become the first full ... ( read original story ...)

LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The era of super-cheap money is ending, and stocks' remarkable run to new highs and bond yields' refusal to shoot higher suggest world markets are taking this seismic monetary policy shift in their stride. Yet while attention is ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese inflation sped up in October but price rises are still less than half the central bank’s target, despite the tightest labor market in decades. Highlights of the Data Core consumer prices, which exclude fresh food, increased 0.8 percent in ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and a syndicate of lenders have provided a $2.73bn loan to finance the construction of a railway and upgrade a port in Mozambique, which will ensure the long term supply of coal to Japan from the African country. ( read original story ...)

This report analyzes and researches the Mobile Banking industry's development status and forecast in United States, EU, Japan, China, India and Southeast Asia. - Agency -. Global Mobile Banking Market Report contains all Analytical and Statistical brief ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's jobless rate held steady at 2.8 percent in October ... faster than a 1.5 percent gain in April-June, another report from the finance ministry showed. The capex data, which the government uses to calculate revised gross domestic product (GDP ... ( read original story ...)

Shares of SG Holdings, the operator of Japan’s second-largest parcel delivery company by volume Sagawa Express, could rise as much as 27 percent by a year after its debut this month as investors bet on solid earnings helped by logistics services home and ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese automakers are increasingly adopting plastics in auto ... tariffs in the region will be largely eliminated. Additional reporting by Nikkei staff writers Atsushi Tomiyama in Hanoi and Yuta Koyanagi in Tokyo. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan is expected to schedule Emperor Akihito's abdication for April 30, 2019, when the cabinet meets next week, aiming to give citizens time to reflect on the reign change without a divisive political event. The Imperial House Council ... ( read original story ...)

LONDON: The era of super-cheap money is ending, and stocks’ remarkable run to new highs and bond yields’ refusal to shoot higher suggest world markets are taking this seismic monetary policy shift in their stride. Yet while attention is fixed on the US ... ( read original story ...)