(Bloomberg) -- Spare a thought for Japan’s yield-starved investors. Not even three months into a new fiscal year, a gauge of global bond yields has slumped to the lowest since 2017 and the yen has ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan to stand pat even as trade war, dovish Fed cloud outlook
At a post-meeting news conference, BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda ... if the economy loses momentum to hit its 2% inflation target. Japan's economy expanded an annualised 2.1% in January-March ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese companies rediscover Dalian’s charms
DALIAN, China -- Japanese companies are again investing in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian, which has a reputation as being friendly to Japan. In recent years, the talk in Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s TPK withdraws from Japan Display bailout consortium
The Japanese maker said that it is now in talks ... for the worse in May when TPK Chairman Michael Chiang Chao-juei told Nikkei that there was some disagreement with JDI and that it would withdraw ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei tick up in sympathy with Hong Kong, outlook cloudy
Japan's Nikkei share average rose 0.11% to 21,140 but the broader Topix was down 0.24% at 1,543.06. The market got a brief boost after Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index opened sharply higher after the ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks open lower with eyes on trade, central banks
Tokyo stocks opened fractionally lower on Monday, tracking falls on Wall Street, with investors' eyes on the US-China trade war and key central bank meetings this week. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Investors Pivot to Risk as Yield Slump Spoils 2019 Plans
(Bloomberg) -- Spare a thought for Japan’s yield-starved investors. Not even three months into a new fiscal year, a gauge of global bond yields has slumped to the lowest since 2017 and the yen has ... ( read original story ...)
Hostile battle set to disrupt Japan’s property fund market
Japan’s $130bn real estate investment trust market is primed for potentially major disruption in the coming days as investors await a ruling on the sector’s first ever hostile merger attempt. Hostile ... ( read original story ...)
On The QT: Broadbeach restaurant Danto Sapporo moves inland after 28 years
Danto Sapporo, which has been trading for 28 years, is heading inland, albeit temporarily. The go-getting Japanese lady who built Danto Sapporo’s home and operates the restaurant plans to demolish the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan requests proof of Iran involvement in tanker attack
The statements from Pompeo are "not convincing," a Japanese government source said Sunday, according to Kyodo News. Last week Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tried to mediate U.S.-Iran relations ... ( read original story ...)
Japan awaits big wave of Southeast Asian tourists
TOKYO -- Amid Japan's inbound tourism boom, the number of Southeast Asians visiting the country is particularly conspicuous. Thai tourists to Japan topped 1 million in 2018, while their Vietnamese ... ( read original story ...)
10 bunker-like houses in Japan that offer total privacy
This monolithic house is designed to fill a challenging triangle-shaped plot in Tokyo, and uses its sharp "dead space" corners as hidden courtyards. While enabling Chop + Archi to create a ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka police chief: Manhunt underway for suspect
The head of the Osaka Prefectural Police headquarters says it is extremely regrettable that a gun was taken from the police officer who was stabbed on Sunday morning. The gun was loaded with five ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka police officer stabbed by attacker who fled with his revolver
SUITA, Osaka Prefecture--A police officer here was seriously injured on June 16 after he was stabbed by a man who fled the scene with his service revolver, in a possible ambush as police were ... ( read original story ...)
Schoolgirls for sale: why Tokyo struggles to stop the ‘JK business’
A young woman hovers in the doorway of one of Kabukicho’s information centres, which give recommendations for bars and sex shops. Photograph: Kosuke Okahara/The Guardian On a humid Wednesday night the ... ( read original story ...)
Police officer stabbed in Osaka Prefecture, man flees with service pistol
OSAKA - A police officer was stabbed and his pistol was stolen in the northern Osaka Prefecture city of Suita, authorities said Sunday, with the male suspect who fled the scene yet to be apprehended. ... ( read original story ...)