The poll also showed the Bank of Japan is expected to keep monetary policy unchanged at its meeting next week, with consumer inflation still far from the bank’s 2 percent target. Industrial production is seen rising 0.5 percent in March month-on-month. ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 2-Tame inflation keeps pressure on Bank of Japan to maintain stimulus
TOKYO, April 20 (Reuters) - Japan’s headline inflation slowed in March from February, highlighting the central bank’s struggle to hit its 2 percent price growth target after five years of heavy stimulus, keeping it under pressure to maintain an ultra ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Inflation Slips as Kuroda Begins New Term at BOJ
The Bank of Japan had been making progress in generating inflation, with domestic demand picking up, although the yen’s rise has complicated the outlook. This month Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said he was confident the target would be reached next year ... ( read original story ...)
BOJ warns of risk from lax bank loans to ‘middle risk companie’
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan warned on Thursday of a potential spike in credit costs stemming from a rise in bank loans to companies undertaking low profit businesses if the economy should slow or interest rates rise. Financial institutions are ... ( read original story ...)
Japan contemplates post-Abe world, but rivals’ positions still murky
For Abe, amending the U.S.-drafted charter - seen by some conservatives as a humiliating symbol of Japan's defeat in World War Two - has long been a top priority. On the economy, Kishida has said the Bank of Japan's hyper-easy monetary policy - a pillar of ... ( read original story ...)
Forex – Dollar Rises; Yen in Focus As Japan’s CPI Drops
The Bank of Japan's 2% inflation target begins to look grim as inflation continues to droop in the Japanese economy. Despite the limited impact of the monetary easing policy, Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the Bank has no plans to drop the policy. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s March Inflation Dip Doesn’t Signal Reversal of Trend
(Bloomberg) -- While Japan’s key price gauge ticked down in March, the inflation trend remains intact as Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda begins his second term. Consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 0.9 percent in March from a year earlier ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s core inflation slows for 1st time since July 2016
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's underlying inflation slowed for the first time in 20 months in March, posing a challenge to the Bank of Japan as it struggles to attain its 2 percent target, government data showed Friday. Supported by high utility costs ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama Rubber : and YOKOHAMA Magokoro (Sincere Heart) Fund Support Relief Efforts in Quake-stricken Taiwan
Tokyo-The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced on April 5 that the Company and the YOKOHAMA Magokoro (Sincere Heart) Fund, established as a social contribution fund by the Company's employees, donated about 270,000 Taiwan dollars (about ¥1 million ... ( read original story ...)
TOKYO | Volcano in southern Japan erupts for 1st time in 250 years
TOKYO| April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) A volcano in southern Japan has erupted for the first time in 250 years, and the authorities have set up a no-go zone around the mountain. The Meteorological Agency said Friday that Mount Io erupted Thursday for the ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo: Man, 49, kept corpse of father in residence for 2 months
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 49-year-old man who is believed to have left the body of his father inside their residence in Setagaya Ward for about two months after he died, reports TBS News (Apr. 18). On Tuesday, Masashi Kinoshita alerted ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese companies see big things in small-scale industrial robots
TOKYO (Reuters) - A two-armed robot in a Japanese factory carefully stacks rice balls in a box, which a worker carries off for shipment to convenience stores. At another food-packaging plant, a robot shakes pepper and powdered cheese over pasta that a ... ( read original story ...)
Trump pushes arms sales to Japan in attack on trade deficit
Japan has resisted Trump's urging that it increase imports ... which agreed to cap steel exports to the U.S. at 70% of recent levels. Nikkei staff writers Takeshi Kawanami in Palm Beach, U.S., and Yasuo Takeuchi in Tokyo contributed to this article. ( read original story ...)
Trump sees big arms sales as quick fix for Japan trade deficit
Japan has resisted Trump's urging that it increase imports ... which agreed to cap steel exports to the U.S. at 70% of recent levels. Nikkei staff writers Takeshi Kawanami in Palm Beach, U.S., and Yasuo Takeuchi in Tokyo contributed to this article. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Nikkei reaches 7-week high on relief over U.S.-Japan summit outcome
TOKYO, April 19 (Reuters) - Japanese shares rose to a seven-week high on Thursday, with investors relieved that the United States did not make new trade demands at this week’s summit between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump. ( read original story ...)
Nikkei hits 7-week high on relief over U.S.-Japan summit outcome
TOKYO, April 19 (Reuters) - Japanese shares rose to seven-week high on Thursday, with investors relieved that no new U.S. demands on trade came out of this week’s summit between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump. ( read original story ...)