Category: Japan
Japan’s SMBC said in talks for TPG’s Indonesia bank stake
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp is in advanced talks to buy a $1.2 billion stake in BTPN, an Indonesian lender backed by TPG Capital, people familiar with the [...]
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Korea chides Japan after lawmakers visit war shrine
South Korea chided Japan for “retrograde comments and behaviors” Thursday, days after Japanese government ministers and a host of lawmakers flocked to a [...]
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Japan, Russia to boost business ties, restart territorial talks
Japan and Russia expect to clinch up to 20 deals, launch an investment fund and reopen talks on a territorial row that has kept them from signing a peace treaty formally [...]
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Japan Needs More Than a Devalued Yen
The last time Masao Namiki bought machinery for his business, Emperor Hirohito had just died and Japanese investors were congratulating themselves on snapping up New [...]
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Japan transport minister: government to issue permit to resume Boeing 787 flights
Japan’s transportation minister said on Friday the government will issue a technical directive on Friday that would permit Boeing Co (BA.N) to resume flights of its [...]
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Japan’s state-backed funds take risks, but what are the rewards?
As part of Japan’s economic revival plan, the new government has added $3.2 billion to the spending power of state-linked funds investing in Japanese companies, [...]
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Japan’s Investment Banks Once Ugly Sisters Turn Into Cinderellas
Investment banks are among the first and biggest beneficiaries of Japan’s new economic-stimulus policies, known as Abenomics. Since prime minister Shinzo Abe came into [...]
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Japan inflation to hit 2 pct in latter half of next 3 years -BOJ
Japanese inflation is likely to rise to around 2 percent during the latter half of the coming three-year period covered in the Bank of Japan’s latest semi-annual [...]
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Japan hangs 2 inmates convicted of murder; nation has executed 5 so far this year
Japan has hanged two inmates convicted of murder, its fourth and fifth executions this year. The Justice Ministry said the executions were carried out early Friday in Tokyo. [...]
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Japanese prime minister Stokes Wartime Passions
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe stepped up his campaign to revisit Japan’s wartime history, responding to criticism from Asian neighbours with a new round of [...]
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SKorea Recalls Japan Ambassador over Visits to War Shrine – VOA
South Korea has summoned Japan’s ambassador in Seoul to protest recent visits by Japanese lawmakers and officials to a controversial shrine seen by many as a symbol of [...]
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Japan court rejects demand to evacuate children while…
A Japanese court has rejected a demand that a city affected by the fallout of the country’s 2011 nuclear disaster evacuate its children. The unusual lawsuit was filed [...]
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Getting Japan to Guzzle American Gas
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe expected a sharp debate at home when he said his country wanted to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He may not have anticipated a sharp [...]
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White House formally notifies Congress of Japan free-trade talks
President Barack Obama’s administration on Wednesday notified Congress it will start free-trade talks with Japan, bringing the world’s third-largest economy into [...]
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Japan PM’s plans to break with past threaten more friction ahead
When prime minister Shinzo Abe holds a ceremony on Sunday to mark a day in history that few voters give much thought, he will also be quietly pushing his agenda to break free [...]
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