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The flight from KL-Osaka-Hawaii would take about 14 hours ... Australia and North Asia over the years. In terms of its financial position, Benyamin said he is confident that AirAsia X would post its first ever profitability for last year after going ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO Jan 31 Japan's Nikkei share average posted the biggest daily decline since November on Tuesday as uncertainty over U.S. President Donald Trump's policies weighed on investor sentiment. The Nikkei fell 1.7 percent to 19,041.34 points, posting the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Jan 31 Japan's Nikkei share average fell more than 1 percent on Tuesday, tracking Wall Street lower on concerns that U.S. President Donald Trump's policies may prove destabilising for the rest of the world. Traders were also reluctant to stake out ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Japan's central bank has ended its first board meeting of the year with a decision to keep its lax monetary policy and negative benchmark interest rate unchanged. The Bank of Japan upgraded its forecasts for growth, though, citing signs the world's ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan raised its economic growth forecasts on Tuesday, but kept its policy stance unchanged, as was widely expected in its latest policy review. The central bank raised its gross domestic product (GDP) forecast to 1.4 percent for the current ... ( read original story ...)

But that silver lining didn't prevent the stock from slipping below its IPO price of $32.84 ... Line News continues growing -- especially in its four "key countries" of Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia. Line stated that its combined MAUs in those ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is not the only central bank in the world that needs to cope with the demand for lai see money – its peers in Japan, Malaysia and Singapore also have to print new banknotes for “lucky money”. In Japan consumers can go ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO—At the Bank of Japan, cautious optimism toward U.S. President Donald Trump is giving way to plain caution. Mr. Trump’s election victory initially gave policy makers in Tokyo hope of more-favorable economic conditions after a stimulus pledge ... ( read original story ...)

The bank is a unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group ... That is in addition to suits from 15 groups and individuals in Japan that total 15.3 billion yen. The Tokyo Stock Exchange has placed Toshiba on its watch list since September 2015, following ... ( read original story ...)

For Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, this week’s BOJ meeting is a go-through-the-motions exercise. He’ll look across the table and get his colleagues’ assessments of inflation and growth before standing pat on the BOJ’s ultra-loose policies. ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan’s (BOJ’s) war against deflation is far from over, but analysts are hopeful that 2017 may mark a turning point for the world’s third-largest economy. Evidence that two decades of deflation have yet to be fully expunged came Friday ... ( read original story ...)

The holding company would instead wait for the appropriate timing to sell shares in Japan Post Bank Co Ltd and Japan Post Insurance Co Ltd, Nagato said at a news conference. "We would like to sell our holdings in the two subsidiaries down to 50 percent as ... ( read original story ...)