Category: Japan
Hartford takes $600m charge to Hedge Japan annuity risk
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG) said first-quarter results will include a $600 million charge as the insurer hedges risks from savings products sold to Japanese [...]
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Tepco faces decision to dump radioactive water in Pacific.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501)’s discovery of leaks in water storage pits at the wrecked Fukushima atomic station raises the risk the utility will be forced to dump [...]
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Japan, Taiwan sign deal over disputed Islands
Japan has agreed to give Taiwanese fishing rights in waters near a group of Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea that are also claimed by China and Taiwan. In a [...]
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Kuroda defends his major policy shakeup
The impact of the dramatic monetary policies adopted last week by the Bank of Japan was “within expectations,” but the bank will keep a close watch on markets, [...]
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Japan leads new Asian uni ranking
JAPAN is the star performer in a new ranking of Asian universities but Chinese higher education is fast catching up, reports the Times Higher Education magazine. The [...]
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Canadian dollar strengthens on speculation of flows from Japan
The Canadian dollar strengthened against its US counterpart for the third day as investors seek higher-yielding currencies of commodity-exporting nations. The loonie, as the [...]
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KKR Hires New Chief for Japanese Unit
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts on Wednesday appointed a new chief executive at its Japanese unit, part of a series of recent hirings at the private equity giant as it gets set to [...]
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Japan leads new Asian uni ranking
Japan is the star performer in a new ranking of Asian universities but Chinese higher education is fast catching up, reports the Times Higher Education magazine. The [...]
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Japan’s monetary ‘bazooka’ hits bonds
Dealing in Japanese government bond futures was briefly halted on Wednesday by the Tokyo Stock Exchange after sellers pounced on the June 10-year JGB contract, causing prices [...]
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Japan stays on alert amid N Korean missile threat
Japan remained on alert Wednesday for a North Korean ballistic missile launch expected in the next few days, but Tokyo acknowledged that it was unsure whether Pyongyang would [...]
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Steer clear of TPP talks, Japanese professors urge
A group of university professors urged the government Wednesday not to take part in negotiations on the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement, saying [...]
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Non-Japan bond buying rises Tenfold after Kuroda, SocGen says
Japanese and investors following them may have purchased about $13.5 billion of non-Japanese bonds since the Bank of Japan (8301) announced its unprecedented stimulus last [...]
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First solar will target Japanese rooftops with TetraSun purchase
First Solar Inc. (FSLR), the solar manufacturer that gets almost two-thirds of sales from building and selling utility-scale power plants, agreed to buy TetraSun, a startup [...]
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Japan city mistakenly tweets N. Korean missile launch
Officials in the Japanese city of Yokohama were left red-faced on Wednesday after mistakenly announcing the launch of a North Korean missile to 40,000 followers on Twitter. [...]
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Fukushima plant abandoning leaky underground pools
The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday it will abandon seven underground reservoirs storing radioactive water after three of them [...]
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