Category: Japan
Japan, Malaysia seal $3 billion currency swap deal
Japan and Malaysia sealed on Friday a mutual currency swap arrangement to allow each side to provide the other up to $3 billion to prevent a financial crisis, the Japanese [...] » More
Two-thirds of Japan public support new PM SugaKyodo poll
New Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga’s government was backed by at least two-thirds of respondents in domestic polls taken in the early days of his [...] » More
Japan’s August consumer prices fall at fastest pace in four years
Japan’s core consumer prices fell at their fastest pace in almost four years in August, dragged mostly by government-sponsored discounts for domestic travel aimed at [...] » More
Japan PM Suga aims to get flagship digital agency running by autumn 2021-Nikkei
Newly elected Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga will work to get his flagship new digital technology agency running by autumn 2021, the Nikkei newspaper reported on [...] » More
Japan top court sides with tattoo artist in test case
Japan’s top court has sided with a tattoo artist who was fined for practising without a medical licence, in a case that revived debate about the country’s uneasy [...] » More
Tokyo logs 220 coronavirus cases, breaching 200 after five-day lull
The number of novel coronavirus cases newly confirmed in Tokyo came to 220 on Friday, topping 200 for the first time in six days, the metropolitan government said. [...] » More
Challenging year awaits Japan’s new prime minister Suga
A challenging year awaits Yoshihide Suga, who has been elected the Japanese prime minister in the shadow of a new period of domestic and foreign policy difficulties along [...] » More
Japan sending team to probe Mauritius ship grounding
Japan said on Friday it will send a five-person team to Mauritius to investigate the grounding of a Japanese-owned ship off the country’s coast that led to an [...] » More
Japan’s reappointed finance minister Aso says will prod regional banks to pursue reforms
Japanese Finance minister Taro Aso said on Wednesday he will encourage regional banks to push through reforms to survive headwinds such as a dwindling population. [...] » More
BOJ’s Kuroda says globalisation will be sustained despite COVID-19
Globalisation will be sustained and supply chains will be diversified as firms adjust to novel coronavirus disruption, Japan’s central bank governor said on Friday, [...] » More
Japan new PM begins 1st full day, vows to push reforms
Japan’s new prime minister Yoshihide Suga started his first full day in office Thursday with a resolve to push forward popular reforms. “I’m determined to [...] » More
Complaints overwhelm Japan red-tape hotline hours after launch
Just nine hours after Japan’s new minister for administrative reform launched an online system for reporting excessive bureaucracy and red tape, it hit a snag: too many [...] » More
Yoshihide Suga Is Japan’s New prime minister. Here’s What That Means for the US
As Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, takes the reins of the world’s third-largest economy this week, he inherits a domestic agenda swamped by the [...] » More
Japan’s ‘Suganomics’ will target quick wins, not grand visions
Japan’s new prime minister will pursue economic structural reforms through a mixed bag of policies that target specific industries, rather than a grand strategy to [...] » More
Virus wrecks once-in-a-lifetime job chance for Japan’s new grads
The nation’s college graduates get one shot at their dream job. That’s it. And this year, they might not even get that. Big companies have long preferred to hire [...] » More
