Category: Japan
Japan May trade deficit widens on import costs
Japan extended a string of trade deficits in May, official data showed on Wednesday, as the country’s import costs rose on the weak yen but shipments to the United [...]
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Japan government Bond Auction Signals Stability
Japanese government bond prices gained after a solid 20-year-bond auction indicated returning stability in the market after weeks of turbulence in the wake of the Bank of [...]
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Japan PM targets economic revival
Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe has declared his top priority is his country’s economic revitalisation following the G8 summit. He met Japanese businesspeople [...]
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Japan finds highly toxic strontium in Fukushima groundwater
High levels of a toxic substance called strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the utility that operates the [...]
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Japan’s exports pick up pace, give economy momentum in rough markets
Japan’s exports rose in May at the fastest annual rate in more than two years with the help of a weak yen and a moderate pick-up in global demand, boding well for the [...]
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Japan watchdog formally OKs new safety requirements at nuke plants, paves way for resumption
Japan’s nuclear watchdog has formally approved new safety requirements for atomic plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima [...]
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Japan drifting away from becoming a ‘normal country’, says Xinhua
Japan is edging further away from its goal of becoming a “normal country” in the post-war world, China’s state news agency Xinhua said in a scathing [...]
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Toshiba to cut TV business costs by $104 million this fiscal year: Nikkei
Japan’s Toshiba Corp plans to cut about 10 billion yen ($104 million) in costs this fiscal year by reorganising its network of television factories in Indonesia, China [...]
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Japan May exports rise 10.1 pct year/year – MOF
Japanese exports rose 10.1 percent in May from a year earlier, up for a third straight month, Ministry of Finance data showed on Wednesday, in a sign that a weaker yen and a [...]
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Japan Boosts Financial Support for African Development
In June, Japan made a five-year commitment of $32 billion dollars in public and private funding to Africa. It will be used in areas prioritised as necessary for growth by the [...]
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After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy
Government subsidies raising interest in renewables, but higher bills could complicate Shinzo Abe’s economic recovery plan Across Japan, technology companies and [...]
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Japan says G8 stance is sign of approval for ‘Abenomics’
Japanese cabinet ministers welcomed the Group of Eight summit’s stance on Tokyo’s sweeping stimulus policies as a vote of confidence in the government’s [...]
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Japan revised April industrial output up 0.9 per cent month-on-month
Japan’s industrial output rose 0.9 per cent in April, according to government data revised to reflect a change in the base year, showing a steady pickup in firms’ [...]
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Abenomics Mobilises Japan Homebuyers to Action: Mortgages
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge to end 15 years of deflation has prompted the nation’s biggest banks to raise mortgage rates, mobilising people like [...]
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Japan fears losing battle of buffets against China
Belt-tightening in Japan’s diplomatic service is cutting the quality of canapes on offer abroad, the Foreign Ministry has said, leading to fears Tokyo is losing the [...]
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